Over the river and through the woods…
If you are of a certain age, you probably recall singing or screaming this song at school assemblies, or joyfully playing with childhood friends, or maybe even on a pub crawl with a bunch of folks on a wintry day. Drifting snow, images of a sleigh, the horse who knew the way, grandma and grandfather, and the torrid blowing wind that “stings the toes And bites the nose….”
We have blogged about the power of words and
how poets and writers are channel and transform words into sentences and stanza
and paragraphs to create memories and inspire more profound levels of
understanding about situations and people.
On this Thursday, the 4th day of a
new year, we are share the work of Marwa Fichera and Imani “Clio” Lang.
Fichera
brings home to aaduna two poems, “. training” and “. mother’s wisdom.”
Here is a snippet from “. training”
Here is a snippet from “. training”
as a child
I was told that
being born female,
one day I would become
a woman.
a black woman.
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Imani "Clio" Lang (photo provided) |
Lang also will present two poems in the forthcoming issue, A Dream, A Garden” and “Aborted.”
Here is the opening to “A Dream, A Garden:”
Every morning,
I curl my
hair and plan to take over the world, yet I’m stuck in your imagery, your paint
and your pearls so you could win me over like oil burning crayons
Every
morning,
I
plan to save these children yet when you yell at me I feel like a child-broken
and crying out for peace
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