Bastard of A Full Moon

hellobenin: Voodoo decorations by luca.gargano on Flickr.

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:34:56 -0400

Voodoo decorations by luca.gargano on Flickr.

what i learned in the fire

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:33:22 -0400

my body is a pill, small, and love is the wrong man’s tongue to tell me so
my body dissolves
my body finds men who are water and calls them home

my body is everything that happened to me
love is a thing my body borrows to forget
love is a pill
my body is water. my body is a tongue and love
dissolves, love calls the wrong men home
love makes my body a stain and goes
looking for water on the wrong man’s tongue

love is a house, my body is a bath drawn in floodwater
my body trickles in through the floorboards
love is the carpet that i’ve ruined. love is decoration
love is an alternative to water, love is just
something to do until the wars start
my body is a border drawn up by some man long ago
love is everything that happened in between
love is the pilgrimage
love is fasting past sunset
my body is bread
love is the floorboards
my body is decoration
love ruined all the carpets
my body is the carpet
my body is the stain
love makes it all dissolve
love is an alternative to home
love is floodwater
my body burned to the ground
my body called the wrong man home
love started the fire
my body is everything that happened after

my body is a house on fire
love is an alternative to damage
love makes stains of all the wrong men
my body drew a bath in floodwater
love is one of the things that got lost

Photo

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:27:44 -0400

"I am a poet because I have considered suicide since I was a child, and it wasn’t until I discovered..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:40:20 -0400

“I am a poet because I have considered suicide since I was a child, and it wasn’t until I discovered poetry that I learned there are other languages for my sorrow - death is not the only one.”

- Rachel McKibbens (via whohohore)

"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:12:09 -0400

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.”

- bell hooks (via thepoetandthesiren)

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:54:40 -0400

poetrysociety: Day Job of Poets.

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:51:52 -0400

poetrysociety:

Day Job of Poets.

"Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:45:00 -0400

“Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.””

- Henry Miller (via mycolorbook)

queenpoetic: Yo honey dip, summertime fine, jewelry...

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:37:34 -0400

queenpoetic:

Yo honey dip, summertime fine, jewelry dripping
Seen you on Pickens with a bunch of chickens how you’re clicking
I kept shooting strong notes as we got close
She rocked rope, honey throat smelling like Impulse
Your whole shell baby’s wicked like Nimrod
Caught me like a fresh-water scrod, or may I not be God
Attitude is very rude boo, crabby like seafood
It turns me on like Vine’s Cee Allah Rule
They call me Starky Love hon, check the strategy
By any means, Shirley Temple curls was done by Billie Jeans
Black Mrs. America, your name is Erica, right true
Lazy eyeball, small feet, six shoe
Caramel complexion, breath smelling like cinnamon
Excuse me hon, the Don mean no harm, turn around again
God damn, backyard’s banging like a Benzi
If I was jiggy, you’d be spotted like Spuds McKenzie
I’m high-powered put Adina Howard to sleep
Yo pardon, that bitch been on my mind all week
Back to you Maybeline Queen let’s make a team
You can have anything in this world except C.R.E.A.M
So what you wanna do, what you wanna do
Let’s go ahead and walk these dogs and represent Wu

Poetry

"The idea that religion says women should submit to men is a notion that probably came from men who..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:25:03 -0400

“The idea that religion says women should submit to men is a notion that probably came from men who don’t truly submit to God.”

- Khalid Latif (via thepoetandthesiren)

falalamele: truth

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:21:56 -0400

falalamele:

truth

Reminders For All

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:37:04 -0400

femmefrustration:

Racism against white people doesn’t exist

Sexism against men doesn’t exist

Oppression of cis people doesn’t exist

Oppression of thin people doesn’t exist

Oppression of able people doesn’t exist

Oppression of straight people doesn’t exist

Oppression of rich people doesn’t exist

Specieism doesn’t exist

The ‘War on Christianity’ doesn’t exist

No white ppl, you can’t wear that war bonnet

People are allowed to be angry and react to abuse violently

People are allowed to have safe spaces, and when someone infringes upon that space, they are harassing you

hjaybee: porcelain. ivory. steel.: alltheladiesyouhate: What it is like to live with an...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:33:34 -0400

hjaybee:

porcelain. ivory. steel.: alltheladiesyouhate: What it is like to live with an anxiety…

alltheladiesyouhate:

What it is like to live with an anxiety disorder

blankslate:

1.
no one ever congratulates you
for doing the really difficult things
like driving on the freeway or getting out of bed or
staying alive

2.
every friendship you make is a countdown
to the moment
when they finally can’t deal
with the missed calls and canceled hangouts
every friendship is on a timer
every friendship expires sooner,
not later

3.
you hear phrases like “bootstraps”
over and over
until you wish you had some to hang
yourself with

4.
you have to learn to simultaneously
relax your muscles
and move them with determination
you have to be in control
and you have to let go
at the same time
it’s enough to drive you into
a blubbering mess

5.
music is a conduit
crying is a conduit
your dad calling is a conduit
everything becomes a conduit
for either having or not having another panic attack

6.
you learn to stop making plans
because you’ll either disappoint yourself
or someone you care about or both

7.
you accept all of it

8.
you hope someday everyone else can
accept it too

yep

meehighmeelo: potatofarmgirl: natashakline: For all the...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:30:50 -0400

meehighmeelo:

potatofarmgirl:

natashakline:

For all the artists out there. xoxo

I agree with Natasha! Make stuff even if it HURTS! <3

Things I should remember

inbetweenlove: feministcontent: Willow Smith is fabulous. if...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:28:17 -0400

inbetweenlove:

feministcontent:

Willow Smith is fabulous.

if i ever choose to have kids, may my daughter be so necessarily fly. p.s. still waiting on someone in the universe to gift me this t-shirt.

Role Model.

statographics: Sports must be important. A coach is the highest...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:23:33 -0400

statographics:

Sports must be important. A coach is the highest paid public employee in 40 out of 50 states. Thanks for the statographic Deadspin.

"Because when a man tells a Black woman that she looks mixed as a form of endearment, he’s..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:44:00 -0400

“Because when a man tells a Black woman that she looks mixed as a form of endearment, he’s insinuating that her beauty comes from the (allegedly) non-Black part of her. All they’re effectively saying is: You’re too beautiful to just be Black. Oh, but I am. I’m beautiful just like my beautiful Black mother, just like her mother and her mother’s mother. We’re generations of women born right here in the US of A, from North Carolina to Massachusetts by way of the motherland. Brown skin, nappy hair, cornbread and gravy gorgeous. We aren’t beautiful in spite of our Blackness, we are beautiful because of it. So don’t dare try to give the credit to anything else.”

- Shayla Pierce, Why Saying I Look “Mixed” Isn’t A Compliment (via theraceproblem)

(via blackmaleintimacy)

"The idea that religion says women should submit to men is a notion that probably came from men who..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:55:27 -0400

“The idea that religion says women should submit to men is a notion that probably came from men who don’t truly submit to God.”

- Khalid Latif (via thepoetandthesiren)

If media covered America the way we cover foreign cultures

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:18:41 -0400

jahanzebjz:

Yet another massacre has occurred in the historically war-torn region of the Southern United States – and so soon after the religious festival of Easter.

Brian McConkey, 27, a Christian fundamentalist militiaman living in the formerly occupied territory of Alabama, gunned down three men from an opposing tribe in the village square near Mobile, the capitol, over a discussion that may have involved the rituals of the local football cult. In this region full of heavily-armed local warlords and radical Christian clerics, gun violence is part of the life of many.

Many of the militiamen here are ethnic Scots-Irish tribesmen, a famously indomitable mountain people who have killed civilized men – and each other – for centuries. It appears that the wars that started on the fields of Bannockburn and Sterling have come to America.

As the sun sets over the former Confederate States of America, one wonders – can peace ever come to this land?

From Now On

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:41:07 -0400

Out here for me and mine. Don’t give a fuck about you or yours—off that.

“Cuz I show love, never get the same outta niggas.”