Words of wisdom from the great Ursula K. Le Guin. Alllll this.
Especially: “Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.”
Your creativity is also your wealth. Protect it fiercely.
Share it with discernment.
Water your creative faculties often so that your wealth may remain plentiful.
If,
A poem — from ‘poein’ means ‘to create’
And,
its definition is: something that arouses strong emotions because of its beauty
Then,
the purpose of my art is to make poems everyday. Like Octavia, I want to ‘make people FEEL!’ Creativity is currency. Poetry is power.
home is a made up place
drawn by imaginary lines
reinforced
by blood and water.
home is both the story we tell ourselves
and the pattern we covertly design for generations to come.
My mother is a warrior. She taught me to be a better prayer.
“Ask God for perfect will in all circumstances”
“Do not use limiting language”
“Ask God for perfect sight, beyond what you can imagine.”
Through her, I learned that words can shape as precisely as they can undo.
And as she gazed at her reflection,
there came a rumbling
in her belly.
And her belly grew
and it grew
until eventually,
she exploded
on to land.
And with that outburst
she created
many—
ocean
lake
and river.
Poetry and seduction are closely related. Poetry and the surreal are kindred in spirit.
Can poetry, the surreal, and the sensual conspire with one another?
Where does this inspire creativity? When is response-ability required?
That includes play, grace, continuity, and pleasure.
The nature of poetry, and therefore the creativity of Black women, is to offer meaning in such a way that it can never end.
(1) Omis’eke Tinsley, ‘Ezili’s Mirrors’
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Poetry is the way Black women theorize.
Words are material and words are food, too.
Poets use words to theorize and materialize.
“Sensuality is intelligence. Sensual language is a language that makes sense.” (1)
Black women are part of a tradition of using sensual language