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August 5, 2024

I don’t know what to say… “Happy anniversary? Diagnosis Day?” On August 27, 2017 I felt I should celebrate the day I was diagnosed. It was my anniversary; the day that marks when I began to beat the odds and survived… but there’s also something uncomfortable, even somewhat creepy about it to me. August 27, 2017 was the twentieth anniversary of me receiving that life–altering statement, with the…

August 5, 2024

A poem for the new year in honor of Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr. and some “food for thought” in this “post – empathic” age. In remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, I reflected on Dr. King’s last 24 hours on earth; the day before he became immortal.  History books don’t teach about the Sanitation men’s strike or what the average person endured when the tsunami of racial-political energy converged…

August 5, 2024

April is Poetry Month and Poetry Therapy can be the door that opens one to feeling, strengths, possibilities, and hope. April is poetry month; celebrated by yours truly by joining my poet comrades and doing a 30/30 (thirty poems in thirty days). This is month where lovers of poetry and spoken word are going to readings, doing open mics, conferences, and celebrations; there are special postings on websites,…

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