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01/04/2024

Happy National Poetry Month!

Let the rhythm of words amplify voices to make sounds of iambic pentameters, haikus, and lyrical masterpieces.

Write and keep writing...
Speak and keep speaking...

I AM Poetry in Motion
WE ARE Poetry in Motion
By: IAmPhenixRising

01/04/2023

Happy National Poetry Month!

01/04/2023

01/02/2023

Happy !

"What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate and religious prejudice." - "Father of Black History Month - Dr. Carter G. Woodson

"Carter G. Woodson was a scholar whose dedication to celebrating the historic contributions of Black people led to the establishment of Black History Month, marked every February since 1976. Woodson fervently believed that Black people should be proud of their heritage and all Americans should understand the largely overlooked achievements of Black Americans."

https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/carter-g-woodson

25/12/2022

10/12/2022

Thank you, Trevor Noah ! 🙏🏾🧏🏾‍♀️ - Signed, A BLACK WOMAN.

05/07/2022

"The Dream, whether attainable or not, is to have , freedom in all things."

21/06/2022

Juneteenth!

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Kiersten BrydieIntroducing "Today" a poem written by Producer, Director, and Starring Talent Lynae Vanee. Originally written and adapted for the 2021 2nd An...

30/04/2022

🗣 As National Poetry Month ends, I'd like share another awesome interview from 2020 with the incomparable genius Tampa Bay Poet Dennis Amadeus . Thank you for being my first interviewee. Stay tuned, there's more great content on the way Kreate Konnect & Shine
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29/04/2022

The Insult Poem

29/04/2022

Congratulations 🎊

Iconic poet Sonia Sanchez was awarded the $80K Jackson Poetry Prize, honoring her seven-decade career in the arts.

12/04/2022

In honor of "National Poetry Month,"
We Salute ... Amanda Gorman's poem "New Day's Lyric"

“New Day’s Lyric”

May this be the day
We come together.
Mourning, we come to mend,
Withered, we come to weather,
Torn, we come to tend,
Battered, we come to better.
Tethered by this year of yearning,
We are learning
That though we weren’t ready for this,
We have been readied by it.
We steadily vow that no matter
How we are weighed down,
We must always pave a way forward.

This hope is our door, our portal.
Even if we never get back to normal,
Someday we can venture beyond it,
To leave the known and take the first steps.
So let us not return to what was normal,
But reach toward what is next.

What was cursed, we will cure.
What was plagued, we will prove pure.
Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,
Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,
Where we weren’t aware, we’re now awake;
Those moments we missed
Are now these moments we make,
The moments we meet,
And our hearts, once all together beaten,
Now all together beat.

Come, look up with kindness yet,
For even solace can be sourced from sorrow.
We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,
But to take on tomorrow.

We heed this old spirit,
In a new day’s lyric,
In our hearts, we hear it:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne.
Be bold, sang Time this year,
Be bold, sang Time,
For when you honor yesterday,
Tomorrow ye will find.
Know what we’ve fought
Need not be forgot nor for none.
It defines us, binds us as one,
Come over, join this day just begun.
For wherever we come together,
We will forever overcome.

05/04/2022

Former Professor of Creative Writing at Eckerd College, Helen Pruitt Wallace received her Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from Florida State University. From 2016 until 2022, she served as Poet Laureate of St. Petersburg, FL and currently hosts the Dalí Poetry Series at the Dalí Museum.

The winner of a Florida Book Award, Helen’s first collection of poems, Shimming the Glass House, was chosen for the Richard Snyder Prize and published by Ashland Poetry Press.

Her chapbook, Pink Streets, was published in 2016 by YellowJacket Press. Additionally, individual poems and essays are published or forthcoming in Harvard Review Online, The Literary Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Ni**od International, Tampa Review, Plume, River Teeth, Sweet: A Literary Confection, and other journals and anthologies.

https://www.helenwallacepoetry.com/about/

Former Professor of Creative Writing at Eckerd College, Helen Pruitt Wallace received her Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from Florida State University.

02/04/2022

I sweat poetry
I drink poetry
I breathe poetry
I make love to....poetry
I fight poetry
I bleed poetry
I once tripped over poetry, got angry and kicked poetry
I live poetry, for I am poetry
I do not write poetry, POETRY WRITES ME!

01/04/2022

🗣 It's National Poetry Month!

From the mouth, the heart speaks.
Let the power of your words find refuge on paper or in sound to tell stories, paint pictures, invoke thought, and change the atmosphere. - C.C.
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03/01/2022

....For I am Poetry
- Jill Scott

01/01/2022

Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among them Nora and Henry III)

By: Gwendolyn Brooks
Say to them,
say to the down-keepers,
the sun-slappers,
the self-soilers,
the harmony-hushers,

"Even if you are not ready for day
it cannot always be night."

You will be right.
For that is the hard home-run.

Live not for battles won.
Live not for the-end-of-the-song.
Live in the along.

01/01/2022

Happy New Year from Kreate Konnect & Shine !

22/09/2021

If you're still here, then there is something great you are meant to do.

Our comes from the wise wordsmith Nikki Giovanni.

14/09/2021

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01/09/2021

Hello September!👋🍂🍁
Find happiness along the way.



&Shine