Tag: Love
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Year of Oshun
In the Year of Oshun They are in the womb Waiting to be born With love they’ll be adorned You may not know from where But they will make it here They will come to take what is theirs They will lay some things bare Some things will be covered in water Just because they…
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So Emotional
So Emotional I can see it on your face I can hear it in the words you say So emotional Come this way I will put your mind at ease because emotions brought me to my knees I will keep you safe I will hide you away I never knew what I needed was you…
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You can tell
You can tell me if you want to If you don’t it is okay too I can’t get away from you Not that I’d want to What if you ran away and never came back that day We’d never find our way But now we are on the path That is meant to last I…
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Sometime it’s worth the pain
Sometimes it’s worth the pain to see you smile again Sometimes it’s worth the pain to hear you laugh again You never really leave Cause I haven’t seen you and I’m crying on my sleeve I see you all the time in my dreams The more I walk away the more you come to stay…
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Discussion of Henry David Thoreau’s Life Without Principle
“An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not (Thoreau, 380)” What if one day the only jobs left were those that did not get any pay? What if the most important jobs were those that never got any pay? Mothers do not get paid but…
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Best Friend
I love you because you are my best friend I can talk to you time and again You are like me but what you’ll be we will see You are smart and kind You are thoughtful all the time You make me a better me You are the reason why I can’t think of a…
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Discussion of Wild Seed By Octavia Butler
Doro searches for Anyanwu. He needs someone immortal. He gives her to his son Isaac, but she loves him. Anyanwu marries Isaac, but she hates Doro for it. Later Doro takes Anyanwu as his wife. She wants to die because Doro is a killer. Love is out there looking for us while we look for…
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Discussion of Jonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
Jonah has a gift to preach, with that gift comes idolizing. Women are falling at his feet and Jonah picks them up even though his wife Lucy is at home. Lucy dies from heartbreak at 47. Before she dies she tells her daughter “Don’t you love nobody better ‘n you do yo’self. Do you’ll be…
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Discussion of Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Parable of the sower seems like something that could happen. People will create new lives and spiritual practices when things get incomprehensible. When do we know we have reached that point? Lauren walks around California, while people are being robbed by nomads and water prices are outrageous. Parable of the sower is telling us how…
Diamonds or Light? 