I write because HE instructed me to Gifting me with pen in hand Untapped my knowledge So you and I can understand
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I write because I was truly BLESSED As the words roll off my pen Releasing stories, poetry Through the world they transcend
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I write what is given to ME While facing the world each day Among untold stories Putting ink to print . . . words to convey
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I write because I was given the tools TO Release my soul to the power of the pen As unspoken words fill my thoughts Today, tomorrow, over and over again
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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