Poetry is a voice for the voiceless...

"Amidst the tearing and screaming, hope lingers between black and white lines, between the grandeur of what we long for and the squalor that presses cruel against the heels of the surviving spirit." -Staceyann Chin

I've long thought about what to do with my blog. Should it contain the ramblings that I have been known for? Or should I do something more emphatic with the opportunity that I have to give voice to other poets whose work I greatly admire? I've decided. My poet SPEAK blog will discuss, enumerate and expound on the greatest poets I've found and I'll include the works that I admire with an interpretation of the words that so greatly move me.

Am I a scholar? No, I'm a poet. I know what I think about the words. If you too have an interpretation of these things poetic, I'd love for you to share that with me so that we may have that dialogue on this blog. Let's create a community of poets and poetry aficionados here that are willing to share their voice so that we too may make the world change.

Finding me again

I keep looking frantically, she must be around here somewhere! That beautiful, daring and slightly fearless woman that is willing to do what she feels needs to be done. Her ideas are too big to be in my purse. Her shoes are too smallhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif to house such an imagination..

I keep seeing myself floating high above my real life and wondering where I'm going now. I know I'm taking the safest road for myself because I've taken too many risks and I'm doing it under the guise of what's best for my daughter. Isn't that a great thing? Aren't I being selfless? Look at how great a mother I'm being ...I'm being R-E-S-P-O-N-S-I-B-L-E... The reality is I'm selling myself short and not being the best that I can be bc I'm so busy trying to be someone I'm not. Now don't get me wrong, I'm responsible but I don't do day jobs. But here I am waking up at the crack of God's dawn ...dressing the part of staid day worker, and trudging off to a 9-5 that doesn't make me happy, comes with the strictest of restrictions and comes along with someone else's rules on how I should live my life and conduct myself. Ugh...

I don't know how people do this everyday. I'm trying it out for now with my eye on the long term benefits that I've staked out and in the hopes that I will make it to that deadline I have set without maiming, shooting or stabbing anyone.

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