NaNoWriMo - day 4 - Gratitude with Zolah

Real life outside of Food For Less

A man out in front of the store was yelling at someone and clapping his hands at every syllable saying "Yes, yes, you gon' git so fucked up! I mean so so fucked up! You don't even know how fucked up you 'bout to be! In the name of Jesus you gon be fucked up!"

A poem a day for 2013 - day 306 - Time. Spent. Well.

Every night this weekend
I stretched my body out in the bed with my mother
And we listened to a book on tape
And we laughed at the same parts
Then we fell asleep at the same time
And we woke up and continued the book
And laughed stomachy laughs
And no weekend spent could be better than this

NaNoWriMo - day 3 - Love

A poem a day for 2013 - day 305 - Hold. Space.

I believe in witches
I do
Like I believe in angels
And they work together
And if you are covered and protected
Like tribe and truth
Then witches and angels and ghosts
Surround you like fire and song
Like memory and beware
Like breath
All this Jesus, the Orishas, Water, Sun
Armor my divinity
Like stone
Like free

NaNoWriMo - day 2 - Backyard Ballin'

NaNoWriMo

For NaNoWriMo this year I don't think I'm going to create a writing project. Instead I'm going to post a short video of something poetic, some story from real life. I believe I can keep this up for the month. Believe in me too.

NaNoWriMo - day 1 - Go Poly!

Congratulations to my alma mater, Long Beach Poly for winning their football game tonight. The score was 49 - 6. We had a blast but the sad part was that Millikan scored at all. This was the first game that any team this year got a chance to score on us! Go Poly! I went with my mother and I'm so glad I did.

Check out the lady in the background yelling. She entertained us all night!

Metaphor. Real. Life.

Bird walk

Birds

A poem a day for 2013 - day 304 - Gratitude

I am immensely grateful for my body twisting last night
In the most myriad of pretzel
My feet butterfly in the covers
Celebrating the breeze in the air
Way I love an October night
Then my lotus self awakening to this new day
To the sun pomp and patient through my blinds
I will celebrate this day
I will celebrate the yesterdays that did not swallow me whole
Even when I begged
I am thankful today for a heart and mind and spirit
That wants to live a long and beautiful life
I am ever grateful for my son
Whose face fits easy in my hands
Whose cheeks are still ripe for his mother's kiss
I am thankful for the ways my mind has healed and is healing
Through stretch and prayer and pills
I am thankful for doctors
For friends who bent knee and folded hands for me
Thankful for lifted fingers and raised heads
O the moon
How thankful am I for the moon that watched and followed me at night
Through streets and dim roads, under bridges and 'round valleys
I am grateful
Easy
I am easy
With myself
With others on this journey
Connected to me and to God and to water
I am thankful for all this perfect magnet rain