Dear Girl; Dear Woman

Flushed
Freckled cheeks
Framed by curls
-kept wild to
collect dandelion fluff-

Guest UserOctober 29, 2020Poetry, FWWR, women writers, self-love, self-affirmationComment

Healing Amidst Distress | Pain with a Purpose

I had to free myself from you

I will always continue to try and scrub you off of me

Wash you out of me

Wipe you off my lips

Guest UserAugust 27, 2020Healing, women writers, self-love, forgiveness, for women who roarComment

The Fire Rose Above My Head

Life or death may snatch you in an instant

Without asking permission

What can you do in a forest

With flames above your head

But surrender…

Guest UserAugust 18, 2020women of color, black poetry, self-affirmation, self-love, for women who roarComment

The Case for Ghosts & other poems

The survivor defeated shame

and lived to tell.

The listeners feared scandal

and denied it

Guest UserAugust 11, 2020women writers, women of color, affirmation, self-love, survival, resiliencyComment

You were, I am

Little one. I feel you in my bones. I hear the thunder behind your silence. You are not forgotten. Your presence is like a fire that shoves me forward. I remember you often.

Guest UserAugust 4, 2020women of color, fwwr authors, self-affirmation, self-loveComment

I do love myself. | We sat there

I do love myself.

I do.

I didn’t use to.

Guest UserJuly 30, 2020poetry, self-love, women writers, for women who roarComment