by Lady Munira | Sep 3, 2021 | Literary
Listen baby: The very things you tell yourself are the very things that are true You like listening to a whole lot of folks but you’d do better if you’d listen to you You’re at a new place in your life Leaving college filled with knowledge But you...
by Lady Munira | Sep 3, 2021 | Literary
I purposely did not and will not commit this to memory Because I hate poets that have established their own definitions of what “Real Poetry” is. Paper does not take away from the truths I speak. And talking like this or like that won’t make them any truer. Truth....
by Lady Munira | Sep 3, 2021 | Literary
Wound festering with beguiled treachery Finding solace in the last places we ought to be Seeking our salvation from a white-faced deity Needing to jump and shout to feel our inherent electricity Not realizing we’d stifled our power a long time ago Flesh freshly...
by Lady Munira | Sep 3, 2021 | Literary
What is it to be a human being? Striving for a perfection we’ll never meet? Apologizing for erring while inhabiting this humanity? Posturing ourselves as if we can truly plan anything All the while knowing this life is rife with uncertainty Caught so deeply in...
by Lady Munira | Sep 3, 2021 | Literary
Nestled near Hallelujahs and hog maws Between grieving mothers and study halls Can’t tell if it’s Madea’s cooking you’re catching Or if the view of generations past brings back olfactory memories Of shotgun houses never being empty And gunshots...