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Poetry Break: Tongues

by Keisha DPoetry February 17, 2016February 13, 2017Comments are Disabled

You got that torturous nature about you. Love to slowly drive me to the edge of my skin, the beginning of all sin, and slide me back in time with that desperately, slow, deep, stroke. It wakes me out my sleep, and confines my mind to the moments I speak directly to God. While you ease my spirit …

Single Black Female: The Elephant in the Room

by Keisha DBlogs February 10, 2016June 1, 2024Comments are Disabled

Since the start of the fourth grade, when my family moved into a neighborhood where I would become the minority in a verifiable way for a child I have often been “the elephant in the room” so to speak. On occasion there were other black kids in my class, but as we moved deeper into suburbia that …