Cherie Battiste
@LionessPoet
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Poet/Writer/Performer/Mother Collection “LIONESS” on AUDIBLE/AMAZON : https://t.co/A4EK6TJwFi All work under ©️
Joined June 2015
I am black My glue is gold I am the pot dropped As hands forgot to hold Many impacts In time lapse I fold Remoulding implicit In exquisite way I implode I am not fixed Yes shattered to bits But in the mixed up pieces can bend So I am not fixed And there is nothing to mend
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@blsamaddar a waning moon at the nursing home she shows me the red shoe box stuffed with cards from her son https://t.co/w5ByGB4Ajo
#vss365 #wane #relationship #nursinghome #tanka #poetry #micropoetry #poem
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#vss365 So many wounded creatures. She loved them all, and she hated them. How could she feed them with tiny slices of self, from the shores of a dying moon? But not there. Too much light. Too many hungry mouths. The thrum of need leaking from their veins. The lines all
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#vss365 #FoxProse @FoxProse #fairytalepoets #soulseedslove #loveletters 💌 #Waning moon against the sable night sky, she a tender light of silent beauty. Charter a course for midnight holds us in starlight shadows cast as moments sailing in a lilac ocean of eventide sunsets!
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I watched everything #wane the noise, the pretending, the fear until only what was real had the courage to stay. #vss365 #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity #prompt
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The spoken version reorders a few lines…sometimes the poem teaches me how it wants to be said! ✨🖤✨
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#vss365 #FoxProse @FoxProse #fairytalepoets #vssromance #loveletters 💌 In a moment frozen on the #cusp of tenderness in the soft silence, he's the heir to moonlight and she's lost in starlight. They're the prelude to a love note interlude by the moon's shadow they lounge as
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#vss365 #cusp a thirst-ridden fish flapping fine fins snagged on cusp of revelation on thirsty shore the wet blue rolls in with majesty spreading the ocean like platter of grace water caresses every scale and gill a deep drinking from every pore #cusp
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words/reading 🎧 🎤: @LionessPoet art: Micheal Howell ✨🖤✨ https://t.co/K8Lkdl8F8l
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