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the second one
Pretend unknowing of the original sin is the second one. ava wood The other day I visited one of the few slave-era cemeteries of African-descent people in Charlotte. Known as the McCoy Slave Cemetery,...
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Watch Hands Up
Watch, hands up! Darkest midnight descends upon my kin and each American. This pall befalls all our brethren. An unprecedented presidency ends, while a bigoted braggart divides and ascends. A...
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Feverish
Shake off spring’s fever? How, while blossoms burst aloud with their arias. — ava wood
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Birth Month
Sweet March has landed. Winter is MIA and spring is on the way! — ava wood (I know National Poetry Month arrives in April but can’t help myself. Spring excites me.)
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Blue Sky
March, fickle, left last night. She blew a kiss and was gone. I’ll love her still though — ava wood (And ya know what that means…National Poetry Month is here :~) Poem, Day 1
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Can’t Wait
Anticipation Bated-breath high, gift, curse, fate. I see and can’t wait. — ava wood Sunrise by Diatra Poem, Day 13
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Long Enough
℘ Hold me long enough to melt this encrusted shell; hard’s no state for hearts. ava wood Poem, Day 25
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Here Again
Time again for lamentation. Even though today and into next week, temperatures in Charlotte will near 90 ºF, I am not fooled. Absence of sunlight when I’ve awoken this week is a dreaded reminder: Today...
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Kicking off National Poetry Month with one of our newest promo videos for The Soul of Philanthropy. It features Poet Quentin “Q” Talley and a bit of his poem Full Circle. Enjoy!
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Coming Full Circle
Happy to share a new poetical video from The Soul of Philanthropy! Grateful to my friend, the poet Quentin “Q” Talley, who wrote “Full Circle” nearly 11 years ago. I commissioned the poem, initially,...
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sanitized
Cleaned so we don’t see crooks, gaps, cracks, dirty deeds and tangled nots and haves ava wood ℘ Haiku to launch us into National Poetry Month 2020. We need poetry now as much as ever. Stay home, if...
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