I'm a Growing Woman

Wednesday’s Poetry Prompt: Take the phrase "Back (blank)," replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.  Back in My Heyday (Back in My Day) Am I too young or not old enough to say back in my day like my grandma and them? How far can four decades of living a best blessed life can take you down memory lane without you and I holding hands, skipping between the beautiful lanes of simplicity, innocence, and joy- where I was a minor in a major World Wide Web daydreaming on my white and floral printed daybed where I consumed micro soft dreams and prayed that they would grow bigger by the day like my Windows. You know, way back, when you could Yahoo me before you Googled me. You could page me and I call back on a wired Sprint phone that my single, working, collegiate mother paid in full for. If lost, you could find my nosedived in her encyclopedias, atlas and college books. You could dance the Roger Rabbit, Cabba...

Wednesday's Poetry Prompt: Write a travel poem.  Wanderluster   Right before my feet says "I was here" and the ocean  waves goodbye after wrinkling  my toes and fingers  the sun kisses the leftover  rivers on my bronze skin dry- I'm already lusting for another country  Wondering about how I can wander  through the light and dark of it  letting it naturally take me as I am  as I take it naturally for what its worth Wanting to see the people places and thingamajigs like how I see them shaped and  colored through touch screens Open to hugging a native  to not feel so foreign  Get wrapped up in their  languages like its music  to my ears and I'm a beginner  dancing to the beat of their lips  and the click of their tongues  Waiting for their culinary arts  to met and greet my taste buds  make love to the Americanized palate  of my mouth as my African Diaspora  spirit honor their rite...

Wednesday’s Poetry Prompt: Write a panic poem. Panic Button what if my heart was a panic button pressed deeply to the back of my chest for every single systematic risk weighed against the color black and I ran out of breaths to breathe just for its sirens to howl louder than a tornado warning letting it beats per minute spiral out of control for every obnoxious blackout that my black face faced What if every press down released signals to God to personally contact my spiritual network of ancestral angels and they mighty morph like Power Rangers fly out in V-formation sheltering my kindred soul to take avenge for me or summon me like Captain Planet just to say: the power is now yours its embedded in you this earth is worthy of you too don’t burn out your flames to keep another fire lit there is more freedom in today’s winds and the water in your blood is a fraction of our flesh living in the heart of you breathe child.. breathe… rise child fear none and rise 💜D'ElegantOne  ...

Wednesday's Poetry Prompt: Write a joke poem.  Jelly Rolls I have two chubby thick n' waffle golden brown ones on my belly. No bake; They naturally rise up & fall down. I call them team double trouble 'cause they always rolling in the deep. No butter; They're angel soft & smell florally sweet. Far from being edible; they can be poked, kissed, licked & caressed. And, if I laugh out loud, they'll jiggle then wiggle for a while. And, if I sweat out loud, they'll melt away, off my abdomen after a while. 😂 💜D'ElegantOne 

Wednesday’s Poetry Prompt: Write an enclosed poem. seclusion The world is in a time. And I’m in between another time- where we both aren’t ticking and tocking together. I’m locked inside my inner light, hiding from the world’s darkness that’s rotating like earth’s axis, replicating evil, free of charge. I’m breathing happy as heaven- even resting in peace by the light  of the sun, the moon, and the stars. In my deep self-centered space, self-love, self-empathy & self-kindness reaches back for me in case reciprocity is deceased. Cause, I aint got no mo’ grace periods. I’m just giving me the best of me- fighting for the inner misfit. I’m her army and five star general- saving the rest of her heart from old sleeves, down to cutting strings that made her strange fruit in the eyes of a pathogenic world. 💜D'ElegantOne 

Wednesday's Poetry Prompt: Write a summer poem.  A Love Like Summer  I want a summer love surpassing the first 92 days of a spring fling. I want to take a new  heat of passion further than 93 days of an infatuated summer where I can fortunately harvest the highest comfort and sustain the happiest feelings of knowing, being secured,  safe and sound enough to fall softly in love  and the only coldest winter ever is the last  season of the calendar year that him and I  spring warmth together in, side by side.  I want a summer love without a long summer  break of wishful thinking followed by  withering forget-me-nots and sour sweet  nothings that mean nothing. I want a summer love so freshly born into it's  divine season like the juice of a blackberry  waiting to stain the purest essence of love to  the window of my stained glass heart. I want a summer love healthy and sweet  as a watermelon, never too much to hold, ...