Fam, 2017 is officially one week old today and baby Jesus, I’m already running to keep up. 🙂
This has got to be one of the most uncertain times of my life career wise, but you know how I know it’s gone be alright? My first poem of the new year came to me.
No matter what’s going on in my life, as long as a poem comes through me…
Words I never edit or second guess.
Words that are unfiltered, uncensored, truly me…
I know that I’m alive and well and blessed.
Hope you enjoy it. 🙂
i had a dream about sonia sanchez last night
my nieces
unknowing feline cubs
were crawling all over her
a lioness laughing
a rebel restraining
and i dreamt of her
introduced myself to her
fawning
babbling
reaching for my nieces
to pull them off of her
but her elder empathy
pulled them closer to her
cuddled their wiggling bodies
enveloped their anxious energy
drew them near
my fear
that they were embarrassing me
evaporated
because in that moment
i was emancipated
simply by the joy
of watching
my nieces
unknowing felines
crawling all over
sonia sanchez
a lioness laughing.
monice mitchell simms 