Is a poem at the endâ and yes I am still out here shouting the truth. #metoo #survivor #intimatepartnerviolenceawareness #intimatepartnerviolence
Chauniqua Young
We are making a poetry album yâall. I got this song in the middle of the night after the inauguration. I was surprised by the first lyrics that came out âlove all over. Let it in.â Wanted to change them at first to something that reflected the horror I felt about this historical moment. But then I realized how incredibly Black it is to declare love in the face of war and violence. And so in line with the tradition that raised me, I declare love. Love all over in spite of and in the face of all the shit! Thereâs a link to my new sound cloud in my bio if you wanna see more songs/poems. With love
Fell in love with a song this morning and it made me think of this poem from my book Because You Were Mine. Not always sure what I have faith in and stillâŚ
WEâVE COME THIS FAR BY FAITH
bull headed beautiful and black
you be a galaxy
infinite and dusted with stars
lean into the absence
the dark obstinate abyss
be a wormhole
pull everything in
even when your grandmothers
didnât know what to pray for
they still prayed for you
if you believe in nothing
believe in you
sing to the child in the well
sing until she unfurls her fist
until she sings too
get her out
take her with you
straighten your back beloved
nobody was ever promised theyâd live
Iâm teaching for myself guys!! Come write with me? Iâll bring in poems for us to chew on, give prompts and then weâll workshop your work. Go ahead and slide into my dms if youâre interested or email me at [email protected]
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Spring Poetry Workshop
With Brionne Janae
Mondayâs from 6-8:30pm EST
Dates: 4/13, 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18
Price: $350*
*sliding scale available for queer bipoc poets
#poetryworkshop
Wrote an Anti Easter Sermon where I explore my problems with the crucifixion narrative and predictably end with love. Full essay on my Patreon. Link in bio!!
Iâve been reading Wanda Coleman for the first time and she has quite literally been saving my life. No idea how I went so long without her work but Iâm grateful to have found it and high key mad at all my teachers for not putting it in front of me sooner.
#wandacoleman
âas if we have come to the end â¨of a long contracted shaftÂ
consuming bitterness like rinds â¨weâve learned to eat without the meatâÂ
Fun to see past Breezy's brain learning to grapple with the lyric poem.
Read the rest of the fragment on Patreon đ
Found this poem draft paying homage to my ancestors and all they made it thru. These days I find myself constantly saying âif they could survive that, I can survive thisâ the full draft is on my Patreon! link in bio
12/18/17 *excerpt*
in the tradition of those who stole away of the river waders â¨the troubled the desperate but still running â¨in the tradition of those who stayed  who back bent â¨who back whipped  who back broken fluttered â¨their lashes to listen at the cicadas the bullfrog â¨and owls calling to each other with the want of unchained beings
First Draft (final draft on Patreon)
4/26/17
Alternative Facts -for Trayvon Martin
you move through the night like a spirit dancer
shadow boxer the ground rumbles
beneath your feet. you are like a benevolent God
strolling through the suburbs to see about your people here
you say skittles and sweet tea and the moon
glittering on your teeth is the bright glimmering
of an angels wings you were always
an other worldly thing. (*) you stayed high
as birds wings you always new you aught to fly
always new your feet were too good for the ground
when the thick necked brute came at you
you were the thug they always dreamed of
the thug their mouths got wet for
no scrawny boned teen but a muscular black god
*you kept your hood up to shield the world from your glory
Thereâs a poem on the last slide!!!
Religion really is such a rich source of trauma isnât it. Iâve spent the last couple years throwing off and reclaiming god over and over again. And continue to try to find a way to navigate, understand and express my relationship to the divine. Full essay, poem and song on my Patreon. Link in bio. Leave a tip on Venmo if you like what you see and want to support! @brionnejanae
#religion #god #kink
