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Category Archives: poetry

Give Us Back Our Voice

Posted on June 26, 2022 by nonsmokingladybug

Culturally-diversified biracial girl with
a small diamond nose ring and a pretty smile
poses beside the words
“Women Deserve Better”.

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Powerless

Posted on June 18, 2022 by nonsmokingladybug

In parts of our city, the power went out
intentionally outages after a strong storm,
to prevent further damages, to make sure
we all will be comfortable during the summer.

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Hymn for the Hurting

Posted on June 11, 2022 by nonsmokingladybug

Everything hurts,
Our hearts shadowed and strange,
Minds made muddied and mute.
We carry tragedy, terrifying and true.
And yet none of it is new;
We knew it as home,
As horror,
As heritage.
Even our children
Cannot be children,
Cannot be.

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Just Be

Posted on June 7, 2022 by nonsmokingladybug

Just be who I am,
no judgment by others
without too many worries
living my life.

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Listen…

Posted on May 22, 2022 by nonsmokingladybug

Trusting my instinct
concentrating
feeling its needs
eavesdropping
whispering
to myself.

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Butterflies and Pebbles

Posted on May 8, 2022 by nonsmokingladybug


Go into this week
with the attitude that
your peace,
your health of mind,
and your heart
mean more than
getting everything else done.

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Making Peace

Posted on May 4, 2022 by nonsmokingladybug
School Assignment

A voice from the dark called out,
“The poets must give us
imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar
imagination of disaster. Peace, not only
the absence of war.”

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Senses

Posted on April 14, 2022 by nonsmokingladybug

“Standing at the edge of my fears
And contemplating them
Is a healthy exercise.
The extent of the boundaries
Of who I believe myself to be.

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It’s time

Posted on March 21, 2022 by nonsmokingladybug

Far in the Champagne in midsummer green
where poppy bloom between grave crosses
the grasses whisper and sway gently
in the wind, that gently sweeps over the graveyard

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Mothers Mending

Posted on March 14, 2022 by nonsmokingladybug

After the tussle—or would you call it
a clash?—we stitch the torn uniforms
you men bring home.

Little needle, glint and glide …

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7 Comments

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