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View fullsize ☄️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Lately. I’ve become lost in the delusion of seclusion. My heart has held too heavy a load to let it linger. So, I’ve sought to speaking outside of secrecy. Chanting and singing and cursing outside of conformit
View fullsize 🌲 Again. I want to get lost with you. I want to hold your hand while we walk down uncharted paths to our souls. Unveiling our connection. Creating new memories. I want to kiss your neck, and let my lips linger. Like how I’d also like you lick
View fullsize 🧠 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Memories. You remind me of forgotten moments. A long walk down a lane of past perfect reflective recollections. When butterflies tickled; and tears welled from over flowing fondness. From a kiss that still lingers on my l
View fullsize 💌 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ My heart does not live between my legs. It has learned a lesson that lingered longer than lovers. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ My heart doesn’t reside on my sleeve. It’s not saddled on my shoulders. Subjected to
View fullsize 👁 Responding to the challenge to describe eyes in a poem. #Challengeaccepted #poetry #spontaniouswriting #hiseyes #poetry #yespoetry #lovepoetry
View fullsize ⏰ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Time. We’ve all been given time to reflect and rest. To digress on our dreams. To create a new path picked up from the pebbles we skipped as kids. We’ve been given the grace of time to reflect with focus and co
View fullsize ⛈ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Clouds. Sweet summer rain speaks to me in quatrains and sonnets. Scattered within rhythmic pitter patter. Putting a sodden spell on a normally noiseless night. I know the sky is covered in a gray shaded shroud; as lightning plays game
View fullsize 🤲🏾 Hands. Last night I felt your hands on me. Your calloused coarse fingers found the softest parts on my pretty pastel pallet. A landscape draped in satin. A cascading frame of lavender and lilac and lace. When I sank into slumber, the scent of yo
View fullsize Love cures everything. They say that this virus is resistant to all medicine.... I bet it’s not resistant to love. Our thoughts,charged by our emotions, can change the world. Words and thoughts are powerful. But even deeper... words and though
View fullsize ☀️ Today was the spring equinox. A powerful day proven in my past to be profoundly inspiring. Actually, the weeks before and after spark inspiration to delve deeper in my practice of perfecting my soul...in an imperfect experience... called human.
View fullsize 🧶 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Poem. This is not a love poem. This is not a praise posed in pretty prose. Adoration expressed in anecdotes that denote sweet declarations. This will not make a heart flitter flutter with false hope. The only poetic imag
View fullsize 🎵 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Music. Music has a touch we all want to feel. It starts with a beat. A repetitive rhythmic reverberation patterned by the pulse of our souls. It somehow seeks out the sorrows and transmutes troubles to tenderness. Music m
View fullsize 🧘🏾‍♀️🌌 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ What am I? Life is but a dream. Donned in an opaque dressing gown. Built by soft spoken clowns that force-feed fake desires. Acting out scenarios of lies leaked from holes we have dug for ourselves. As we row,
View fullsize 🌹 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Beautiful. Dear Facebook and Instagram ads, you’ve got me wrong. I don’t want a lace front wig or weave. My natural hair is beautiful. I love all my curls, kinks, and coils. Each bend represents the spirals of
View fullsize 🍫 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Decision. I’ve decided I want to love. With a force so frightening it can fold time. Breaking barriers and mending the bridges between dimensions. Plucking the strings in the theory; in this sublime space continuum.
View fullsize 💦 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The tease of your tempting tongue takes me to boundless boundaries. Beckoning me with wistful wishful wonton wonders. For too long I feel I’ve forgotten that I feel. I’ve cruised on a course of self control...
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