April 30th. The day before May Day. The penultimate day of English Class.
A day of spring. A day of laughs. A day of spreading smiles.
I ate lasagna for breakfast, and now I'm here. Maybe it was the lasagna that changed me.
Maybe it was laced.
Laced with a pure idea of what should be and a motivation to accomplish that.
If I could talk to flowers I would tell them, I feel it too.
I feel the sun stretching itself back into shape after a long winters nap.
I feel the winds changing,
I feel my smile spreading across my face every time I step outside into the beautiful world.
I feel my heart growing back into its idea of what is right,
I feel my mind expanding, breathing in the fresh air.
I feel something,
Something good.
Something I'm going to have to call hope.
Something new, something old, something nearly forgotten.
Spring.
Thank you for coming back.
I missed you terribly.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Unnamed
This upcoming writing is a little slam poetry that I wrote during a theme week my school held about racism. Throughout the week we had various discussions, lectures and classes and we also produced a radio show, some theatre, visual art, and a short film. This piece coming up is a piece I wrote and performed on the radio show we produced, which will be airing in a couple of weeks. It would be better to receive if you could hear it, but I haven't quite figured out the video portion of this blog yet so you'll have to soak it in through your eyes instead of your ears. I hope you like it, and if any thoughts or questions arise after reading it, please feel free to email me at withglitteringwings@gmail.com I always love to hear the thoughts of others. Here it is folks. A piece of slam poetry entitled....
"Unnamed"
As humans we are entitled to two things. Our opinions, and giving and receiving love. We are born into the world with something to take and something to leave behind. We are not here to take lives and we are not here to leave sadness. We are here to make something beautiful, to leave something worth time.
We are not here to impose our realities onto others. We are not here to discriminate and we are not here to judge. Prejudice and bigotry do exist in the world but they don't have to. We can change that, we can make them go away. I've heard the jokes. I've heard the pop songs. I've heard my share of slurs and derogatory terms. Each time I hear one based in hate I cringe, and then I wonder.
Where is this hate born?
Where does it come from?
We are system of oppression founded in hate. We are an institution of bigotry mixed with power and that's what makes us racist. With the way things are, you'd think that after Columbine and Sandy Hook we'd have police stationed outside every school frisking every middle aged white man for guns.
But that's not how it is. Because somehow we've managed to set it up just right so that every black teen strikes fear into the hearts of shopkeepers, but somehow white kids manage to steal everyday. Somehow we have managed to set it up so that every black man gets stopped on the highway but white people go speeding by everyday.
This is a problem we're all facing. This is a problem we're all making. The problem is not out there. The problem is not far away. It is right here in all of our minds.
How can you justify Ferguson? How can you look into the eyes of Tony Robinson's mother and tell her it's OK that her son died?
We say that the problem is society, but we are all society, so how do you justify that? We all have to take a hint from the king of pop and start with the man in the mirror to make that change.
"Unnamed"
As humans we are entitled to two things. Our opinions, and giving and receiving love. We are born into the world with something to take and something to leave behind. We are not here to take lives and we are not here to leave sadness. We are here to make something beautiful, to leave something worth time.
We are not here to impose our realities onto others. We are not here to discriminate and we are not here to judge. Prejudice and bigotry do exist in the world but they don't have to. We can change that, we can make them go away. I've heard the jokes. I've heard the pop songs. I've heard my share of slurs and derogatory terms. Each time I hear one based in hate I cringe, and then I wonder.
Where is this hate born?
Where does it come from?
We are system of oppression founded in hate. We are an institution of bigotry mixed with power and that's what makes us racist. With the way things are, you'd think that after Columbine and Sandy Hook we'd have police stationed outside every school frisking every middle aged white man for guns.
But that's not how it is. Because somehow we've managed to set it up just right so that every black teen strikes fear into the hearts of shopkeepers, but somehow white kids manage to steal everyday. Somehow we have managed to set it up so that every black man gets stopped on the highway but white people go speeding by everyday.
This is a problem we're all facing. This is a problem we're all making. The problem is not out there. The problem is not far away. It is right here in all of our minds.
How can you justify Ferguson? How can you look into the eyes of Tony Robinson's mother and tell her it's OK that her son died?
We say that the problem is society, but we are all society, so how do you justify that? We all have to take a hint from the king of pop and start with the man in the mirror to make that change.
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