Since about two years ago, though, I started purposefully writing love letters and love notes to myself. It sounds dorky, but it is a practical way to affirm yourself. It is good “self-talk” practice. I wrote these to myself on my notes, or as texts to myself! I’ll share a few with you with some tips/notes about it… in case you wanted to try these too!
Bottom line: because I like it! It took me a while to realize that being creative does not mean being perfect. That’s really hard for me to...
Sunday Tea I sat down to tea with Sunday And he was nothing like I thought he'd be. The chairs in his porcelain drawing room Felt rickety...
For a Moment And for a moment, Everything was softness and stillness And no in-betweens, And she felt like this time, This silken rosy...
Taking Flight She walked across the dew-glass grass, Quivering-barefoot-soft, Leaving trails of sugar-cube daisies in her wake. Gusts of...
Who doesn’t love poetry? Especially female poets who share their words of pain, healing and empowerment.
Thaw When the rains came early, Coursing down softly and slowly Over the sleeping earth, She liked to believe that where Each drop hit, A...
Need help figuring out where to study on campus? Check out these acrostic poems to help you choose your study atmosphere! Before six A.M...
Shipwreck The sky is a shipwreck today, Ashen and lonely and quivering Foam, its pale pallid eyes glazed With staring stillness. I look...
Beauty, you're drunk, go home.
Let's be real - who hasn't heard of Rupi Kaur and her poetry books Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers . And if you haven't, are you...
Sunstorm We were like a sunstorm, the sun broke through the clouds in a flash flood frenzy, drunk on giddiness, on hope, but I blinked and...
Spectre I am like The plume of smoke That rises from the back of Phoenix throats In mid October; Burns, dissolves, rises in Languid curls...
The University of Arizona has some popular spots around campus. These spots are filled with tons of memories for all students, whether that...
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Words of wisdom from three different books, all from people of color.
Checkout some excellent poetry, written by and for women!
Scribble It is like something you wrote in pen and scribbled out To try to hide the letters. No matter how hard You press, it still leaves...
I’m standing on the edge. The twin buildings, sun gleaming. Shining, the side of the building is shining and reflective, and my adult face...
Miraculous The candle in the sky Burns on always dripping more White hot dots of wax on the black face Of the far side of my heart. It goes...
In ashes we burn In pain we don’t learn Time fades Scars fade I forgot the pain So I lit up a match again.
