Part 2 Children should be seen not heard They made us mute And when we were finally adults They broke the seal But we had been silent for so long And our voices were long gone Now they squeeze and squeeze Trying to force us to speak To be continued ©Thegreyclover I promise It’s onlyContinue reading “Tales of the voiceless part 2”
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“I am the voice of the voiceless”- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Part 1 Children should be seen not heard Those were the words inscribed on our walls And we grew knowing we didn’t have a say We spoke and we were shunned We grew older and spoke and we were shunned Our voices they ignored We tried to make it louder But instead, they sealed ourContinue reading ““I am the voice of the voiceless”- Ella Wheeler Wilcox”
One Art
Check out the video of the poem “one Art by Elizabeth Bishop” narrated by me on my YouTube channel. Let me know what you think Don’t forget to like, comment and go subscribe to my YouTube channel. The link is below https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwDLX9bST3SHyNlvgT2BXsQ
Twenty years
Building bricks
Midnight Blues
There may be times when we cannot clearly explain our thoughts, not because we don’t understand but because we don’t know how. There may be times when we cannot explain our thoughts because we don’t understand our feelings. They are often not as simple as it seems or as we’d think. “Mixed feelings” may beContinue reading “Midnight Blues”
“Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change.”
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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” —T.S. Eliot
Poetry has become a part of me. I love reading it, writing it or sharing it. “There’s a reason poets often say, ‘Poetry saved my life,’ for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul’s suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and withoutContinue reading ““Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” —T.S. Eliot”
Happy international women’s Day
“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” – Diane Mariechild Phenomenal woman, that’s who you are
To the one left behind
“Survival; we all are subject to it but nothing in our power guarantees it” Adaramola P. Olamide
The grey clover 