Am I Like My Pocketbook?

Am I Like My Pocketbook?
So many things crammed inside, some things hard to find, others to my embarrassment exposed right on top….I’m embarrassed to even look inside around others…
Am I like my bag – my bag which holds receipts, shoes a bus pass, money, change, lipgloss, eyeliner, a bible, pens, a notebook, tissues and empty [...]

Ode to an “Imperfect” Female Body

By: Julia Kyong Allen
The supple flesh of femininity
Is full of pound and meat defined
In rounded stalks, my form that is enshrined
More fertile offerings, divinity
For hourglass found sexuality
Not sapling shoots of slender greens declined
To skeletons of females left confined
With non-developed anonymity
I’m not that graceful twig in winter that
When under weight of snow and ice will snap
And [...]

MY CURVES

MY CURVES
I can’t be like no one else, I can only be me.
Though I have people that I love and admire, I have to embrace what makes me unique.
Tempted to become the cookie-cutter ideal of what society labels attractive in a woman in form and in presence…but no, I decline.
I am here and focused only [...]

Youth of Tomorrow

Written By: Anthony Lewis
My heart was filled with sorrow when I was shown a vision of our youth tomorrow.
Then I was led to say with tears in my eyes, what can I do, what must I do?
Cause my prayers went up like gas prices but every situation reminds me of the book of Job first [...]

Fall

Fall down on me today and wipe my tears away
Shine on me with you marvelous sun rays
I have a new mind state and no longer in this rut will I remain.
For there is a new season to come and the new journey in my life begins today.
So I am going to enjoy my life more [...]

When Jealousy Creeps In…

She walks into the room and now it seems like all eyes are on her.
She is the type that likes to smile a lot, seducing people into her false ways.
She is a phony, as fake as a woman with a mask..trying hard to make you jealous because she likes her own swagg.
Her presence is demanding… [...]

Prison

staring at these four walls
got me going crazy
cause i cant get him off my mind
battling emotions, battling rational
with the irrational feenin for truth
like it’s reality stronger than 150 proof
itchin for love like its my dreams habit
at night, during the day
got my eyes wide shut
praying for serenity
tranquil thoughts to lull me to sleep
this prison
soft cell padded [...]

So Able

He’s able to make me more than I ever thought I could be.
So long as I keep my mind focused on Him and place Him first in my life then I have the victory.
For seasons come and seasons go and it is through these seasons, in which we learn and grow.
I look in the mirror [...]

A Tree Stands

Winter summer spring and fall
There is a tree that stands tall
Outstretched limbs to the heavens
Branches curved and some even bends
But it stands firm through every season
Good Godly roots can be the only reason
Ghe winds of fall the rains of spring
Gut in the end good fruit it brings
The bitterness of winter the heat of summer
Not perfect [...]

A Venus Diva

What started out as simply a poem to be placed in our Poetry section, ended up being an ode to sisterhood. Limarie, our Poetry/Empowerment Editor fills our pages with poetry and inspiration each and every month and this poem is no different. What is different about this one is the way that it captures the [...]