Longing - 'A Yearning Desire'
A chain of ‘Spirit binding’ miles leads to an anchor lodged deep in my bleeding heart. The weight of my heart’s despair drags it ever...
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Embrace Your Phoenix
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Faces and Voices of Courage - LGBTI+ Stories of Struggle and Triumph from Sub-Saharan Africa - Romeo
“I’m alive and as long as I breathe I will keep fighting because to be silent is to say we are not here, it is to say they were right...
"So few times so close..." I wrote this poem many years ago for a friend ...
"So few times so close, To something so different and real, That instinct takes over and makes you clutch what you feel. But to...
One Hour's Observations on a Sunny Winter Morning in Cape Town
Tourists, the Company Gardens, fat squirrels fed daily by children, homeless humans sitting under trees, everywhere asking for money or...
Embracing Home
How does one count the stars? Even though it is an impossible task, I feel I need to try. Not the stars in the night sky but the stars...
DAUGHTER OF THE WATER, WOMAN OF THE LEOPARD
Published online in Garden Spices Magazine "They say stars fell on Alabama, what a beautiful night that must have been. Afrika fell on...
Condensed Milk ... Embrace Yourself!
I recognize and acknowledge that the life I am living is filled with wondrous experiences. The past days and months feel like I am a...
Morning thoughts... for Frank
The Sun is rising behind grey clouds which will quickly disappear and another beautiful hot summer day will follow ... the warm moist...
My Snow Day
This morning I awoke to a rare and beautiful event in the Deep South… a Winter Wonderland! Here in Alabama and other parts of the Deep...
A Shining Star of David in the Deep South
Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar of Huntsville’s Temple B’nai Sholom is a shining light of compassion and inclusion in a region where there are few...
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