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Tichaona Chinyelu Holy is Her Water

Holy, like the air she gave me to breathe Is my love of her. Blue hues of joy color my aura When her accented voice utters praise. I am coming forth by day. Disruptions are not allowed as I build and rebuild. Space is only opened by the carver not me. I script my story a lot more haltingly than I used to And manage to somehow still be at peace. Continue

Added by Tichaona Chinyelu on January 28, 2009 at 12:43am — No Comments

Aafroqween Sanctuary "Security AND Passion" A Response to My Sistah's Blog "Security Over Passion?"

PLEASE CHECK OUT QWEEN IYAPIPHANY'S BLOG SPOT @ http://blackloveadvocate.blogspot.com My God Sis! You just crack my soul open and have me spilling all over...the way you hold the truth to light and blind me with the prismatic rays! I so love you. We are on a journey of simultaneously diverging and converging streams that flow from eternity into eternity and how in the world are we ever to have any lasting clarity in that? I don't know that God really wants that for us. I think it is a human mad… Continue

Added by Aafroqween Sanctuary on November 30, 2008 at 2:15am — 1 Comment

Iyapiphany tell me why

for the first time, i am "doing" a love relationship the right way. no plans to marry. no living with me before i've decided whether or not having a job matters. no unnecessary explanations to my children because there are no pdas before them. no waking up and walking into mommy's room and wondering, "Who the hell is that?" Nope. This time, I decided to be smart. Have not even told my closest friends about this one. I'm watching, I'm waiting. For the first time, maybe I am actually making a man… Continue

Added by Iyapiphany on November 4, 2008 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Iyapiphany http//:blackloveadvocate.blogspot.com

something new, the truth to all of this, revealed, open and unabashedly...visit, comment, and share experiences. I think I'll have a good mixture of hoodfolk, intellectuals, nationalists, poets...hopefully, some emcees, and the thing that will get me killed one day...young, good-looking men... we'll see what happens. Continue

Added by Iyapiphany on November 4, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Aafroqween Sanctuary "...not dreaming something she was supposed to be dreaming."

"...not dreaming something she was supposed to be dreaming." A sister friend of mine has this quote tagged to the bottom of her e-mails and it struck me like a brick! I learned it is from Toni Morrison's Tar Baby which I read so long ago, I think I was a teenager. I don't recall the context but I can't shake the notion as it fits me right now. Seems like it has always fit me. I feel like I am always on the brink of knowing something I should know but always stepping around, or over the knowledg… Continue

Added by Aafroqween Sanctuary on November 1, 2008 at 8:34pm — 2 Comments

Iyapiphany cant run from it

How often and thoroughly i seek to run from destiny. who wants to be responsible, who wants to be great? not me certainly, but it seems the more i make a conscious effort to retreat into my soul and the corners of the earth only the lowly are unafraid to inhabit, the more apparent it becomes to me that i am truly some kind of artist. there is a noise that it seems only the artist can hear. for me, this noise is compounded because i have developed another kind of sensitivity. i am an incredibly,… Continue

Added by Iyapiphany on November 1, 2008 at 12:27pm — 1 Comment

Iyapiphany when i am smiling

Zora Neale Hurston is one of my favorite writers. In a lot of ways, I am a lot like her. Often misunderstood, often wrongly quoted, more often accused of "setting back feminism and the race" and like her, my genius is often unnoticed until people no longer have direct access to me. Zora loved the spiritual arts and she unapologetically loved being Black. Sure, we are African-American and those of us who are bold proclaim African Afrykan, however, there is something unique about being d… Continue

Added by Iyapiphany on November 1, 2008 at 12:19pm — 1 Comment

Iyapiphany children of privilege

There are moments when i am so clear about the sacrifices and benefits of the same then there are the others i have railed roiled and rallied against the cold space and pain that comes at night i wonder how thoroughly i must fight fight not to let just anyone occupy the space that should be reserved for someone worthy how thoroughly i must hold my stance protect the sanctity of my golden heart and platinum pussy how thoroughly i must be the change i wish to see in the world i wonder how much… Continue

Added by Iyapiphany on November 1, 2008 at 12:14pm — 1 Comment

Tichaona Chinyelu Wanton Woman

They say ain’t no sunshine between my legs just a wet satanic pit. The pains I took to inform them my name isn’t Lilith, first wife of Adam, runaway bride, semen stealer, wife and mother of hundreds of demons dampened my ardor and pushed them out doors where they discovered a newfound proclivity to call me bitch. I reveled in my bed and the passion it could produce without affiliation or affliction. Like Sinead, I was no man’s woman. Like Renatta, I fought for the sovereignty of my space. Vitu… Continue

Added by Tichaona Chinyelu on August 10, 2008 at 3:18pm — 1 Comment

Jayy Poem: "knowing"

*~* knowing *~*
having held my breath thru many
'he-might-be-the-one' moments,
in your presence...
i breathe
© Jackie Young ~ 2008
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Added by Jayy on July 18, 2008 at 6:13am — No Comments

Jayy WAKE-UP WEDNESDAY: Life Under Construction

" Often people attempt to live their lives backwards. They try to have more things, more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are THEN do what you need to do in order to have what you want." ~ Margaret Young ~ Don't mind me folks. Just musing out loud. M… Continue

Added by Jayy on July 16, 2008 at 7:04am — No Comments

Jayy WAKE-UP WEDNESDAY: "Start Now"

Start Now Start right now to fulfill your best possibilities. Start right now to achieve the goals you've set for yourself. Those goals, those possibilities are too important to let them go stale. There is something you can do right now to move toward them. Get busy and do it. There is some initial action you can take. Get busy and take it. Wha… Continue

Added by Jayy on June 25, 2008 at 1:47am — No Comments

Jayy Wednesday's Quote: Soul

"Live the life your soul intended." ~ Rhonda Britten ~ I LOVE this quote. It makes my soul smile. It makes one powerful mantra or life motto. Living from the seat of my soul, *~* MsJayy *~*

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Added by Jayy on June 25, 2008 at 12:15am — No Comments

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Tichaona Chinyelu

Holy is Her Water

Holy, like the air
she gave me to breathe
Is my love of her.
Blue hues of joy color my aura
When her accented voice utters praise.

I am coming forth by day.

Disruptions are not allowed as I build and rebuild.
Space is only opened by the carver
not me.

I script my story a lot more haltingly than I used to
And manage to somehow still be at peace.

Posted by Tichaona Chinyelu on January 28, 2009 at 12:43am

Aafroqween Sanctuary

"Security AND Passion" A Response to My Sistah's Blog "Security Over Passion?"

PLEASE CHECK OUT QWEEN IYAPIPHANY'S BLOG SPOT @ http://blackloveadvocate.blogspot.com

My God Sis! You just crack my soul open and have me spilling all over...the way you hold the truth to light and blind me with the prismatic rays! I so love you. We are on a journey of simultaneously diverging and converging streams that flow from eternity into eternity and how in the world are we ever to have any lasting clarity in that? I don't know that God really wants that for us. I think it is a human mad… Continue

Posted by Aafroqween Sanctuary on November 30, 2008 at 2:15am — 1 Comment

Iyapiphany

tell me why

for the first time, i am "doing" a love relationship the right way. no plans to marry. no living with me before i've decided whether or not having a job matters. no unnecessary explanations to my children because there are no pdas before them. no waking up and walking into mommy's room and wondering, "Who the hell is that?" Nope. This time, I decided to be smart. Have not even told my closest friends about this one. I'm watching, I'm waiting. For the first time, maybe I am actually making a man… Continue

Posted by Iyapiphany on November 4, 2008 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Iyapiphany

http//:blackloveadvocate.blogspot.com

something new, the truth to all of this, revealed, open and unabashedly...visit, comment, and share experiences. I think I'll have a good mixture of hoodfolk, intellectuals, nationalists, poets...hopefully, some emcees, and the thing that will get me killed one day...young, good-looking men... we'll see what happens.

Posted by Iyapiphany on November 4, 2008 at 2:30pm

Aafroqween Sanctuary

"...not dreaming something she was supposed to be dreaming."

"...not dreaming something she was supposed to be dreaming."

A sister friend of mine has this quote tagged to the bottom of her e-mails and it struck me like a brick! I learned it is from Toni Morrison's Tar Baby which I read so long ago, I think I was a teenager. I don't recall the context but I can't shake the notion as it fits me right now. Seems like it has always fit me. I feel like I am always on the brink of knowing something I should know but always stepping around, or over the knowledg… Continue

Posted by Aafroqween Sanctuary on November 1, 2008 at 8:34pm — 2 Comments

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