poetry
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Reality is richer than fiction I found the dress I was raped in and didn’t know what to do with it. I haven’t for years You know the dress too, Marilyn Monroe’s iconic white dress cooling herself over a subway grate. It happened on a Halloween I was her he was pimp reality, richer than…
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Hello everyone, You can check out my performance yesterday at Word Up bookstore for the Bottoms Up Social open mic. Copies of my book are available for purchase now at Word Up bookstore
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I wish I could be seen inside out Maybe it’d be easier to see the complexities you would see how much I’m covered in cobwebs commonly known as anxiety. I have scars inside and out You’d see jagged wounds that never properly healed. The outside is scarred by neurosis, I compulsively pick at anything that…
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I love you and I hope I showed or spoke those words to you every day. I’m 27 borderline 28 and you’re nowhere on the horizon Right now I’ve been working making the world a little better before you arrive I know I’ll have called you a leader more than princess You will play more…
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Hello everyone! If you are in the NYC metro area I invite you to attend my event. I will have copies of my book, “A Hike of the Self.” I hope to meet some of you there! https://www.facebook.com/events/597053700461242/?ti=icl
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You are not a victim but a survivor. Victims are paralyzed survivors find strength in the pain You did not ask for this but now you’re shining, a lighthouse to those who did not get their day in court. Using your voice to testify against injustice of class and privilege not going quietly into the…
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goals you’ll have achieved loving every centimeter of your body wholeheartedly accepting it having released expectations the only hospital visits were to deliver your babies and those babies, a reflection of who you’ve become loving motivated a force of change. those babies are growing up in a home that bustles. Saturday mornings are family meetings…
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Words in any language Have never been a foe, Being able to code switch Makes it easy to travel the world. Never lost in Translation, Easy to understand Global populations A diplomat of sorts Fixing misunderstanding Is a Hero’s work.
Yesenia Guerra 