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 I started this post a million years ago. Ok, not a million years, but a long time ago, probably May. And I kept looking at it sitting there...

the independence (of puerto rico)  ~Raquel Salas Rivera English translation from Spanish we are fiercer than melted snow; we are bigger...

A Pain That Is Not Private ~Lara Mimosa Montes There is a time and place in the world for abstraction. When my mother left Puerto Rico fo...

Hummingbird  ~Robin Becker I love the whir of the creature come to visit the pink flowers in the hanging basket as she does most Augu...

Instructions on Not Giving Up ~Ada Limón More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s alm...

Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World  ~Martín Espada                     For the community of Newtown, Connecticut,                  ...

 In the Middle of the Burning ~Canisia Lubrin notice now pictures of awful things on top our head the freight that barricades this view, how...

December Morning in the Desert  ~Alberto Ríos The morning is clouded and the birds are hunched, More cold than hungry, more numb than lo...

 Again it is September ~Jessie Redmon Fauset    Again it is September!  It seems so strange that I who made no vows Should sit here desolate...

From “Perspective is Supposed to Yield Clarity” ~Dawn Lundy Martin She said, I wish I prayed, I would pray for you. And, we all wanted a sha...

 fleeing ~Kara Jackson everything i do comes down to the fact that i’ve been here before. in some arrangement of my atoms i was allowed to b...

 You Still Dream ~Nikki Grimes Here, poem meets prayer. We are exceedingly comfortable with posturing and self-defense that masquerade as ap...

I Saw You ~ Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. I saw you as I passed last night,     Framed in a sky of gold; And through the sun’s fast paling light  ...

Hope. ~Alice Dunbar-Nelson Wild seas of tossing, writhing waves, A wreck half-sinking in the tortuous gloom; One man clings desperately, whi...

When you lose someone you love, you expect grief.  Ok, maybe you don't have a full grasp of how grief will be like a tidal wave until it...

Go Give the World ~ Otto Leland Bohanan I do not crave to have thee mine alone, dear    Keeping thy charms within my jealous sight; Go, give...

Untethered ~ Allison Joseph what anger in defiance what sympathy in doubt emotions steady try us demanding every shout what sympathy in doub...

When Puffy says, and we won’t stop, ‘cause we can’t stop. ~Rasheed Copeland I think of a good night’s sleep an exhale taking its precious ti...

The Optimist ~J. W. Hammond Who would have the sky any color but blue,      Or the grass any color but green? Or the flowers that bloom the ...

Peacock Feather ~Effie Lee Newsome   Heav’n’s deepest blue, Earth’s richest green, Minted dust of stars, Molten sunset sheen, Are blent toge...