Category Archives: FreeVerse

Saving Self Through Writing

Recently, I read the book that the movie Precious was based upon. The book Push by Sapphire is one of the most moving books that I’ve read in a long time. The book is about a sixteen year old girl who is pregnant with her father’s second child. Precious is illiterate, black and poor, and [...]
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Honoring the Female Form

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about images of female beauty that adorn our society and with a new article from Newsweek on Unattainable Beauty, I can’t seem to get away from the subject. For the most part it’s on my mind because I had a serious post-holiday meltdown with my refrigerator. Then I start [...]
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Walking Away

The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was [...]
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Sorry…Not Really

William Carlos Williams is probably best know for the poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow.” While I do love “The Red Wheelbarrow”, I can’t just go for popularity. I like to slightly veer off the beaten path, so I picked a poem that is about a husband who just can’t keep his hands off of his wife’s [...]
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The Place Only Children Know

Shel Silverstein was a man who could not be pigeon-holed into a genre. From his publication in Playboy Magazine to his children’s books, from his work as a cartoonist to his work as a songwriter, all of these titles belonged to Shel Silverstein. The multi-facted character of Shel Silverstein has always mesmerized me in a [...]
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