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You know that the flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that — that is, filled with deep trust. – Rainer Maria Rilke

In The Kindness (Poem by Yours Truly)

(Something I wrote in Dec. 2011… I call it a poem though I’m not sure the term really fits) ******** They say people live in us. Our souls, our hearts, our thoughts are somehow infused with all the connections we

The Journey (by Mary Oliver)

  The Journey – By Mary Oliver One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the

I AM (Poem by Yours Truly, Written Oct. 2009)

I AM …. I am an island baby…not of steel drums or calypso music, But of iron-willed women with swaying hips, and lips that glean with sunshine and open up to rattle in my mother tongue. I am a ghetto

This Is Your Life