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Tanisha Jackland Jul 2018
I have never been dainty
Though I can imagine
it must be a challenge
to summon up disdain
with small wrists and ankles
Love of self is really what matters most.
Tanisha Jackland Jul 2018
When you arrive
your presence
feels like
paper wings
in my tummy
you speak
in flutter
then I begin
to faint
and swell
Love at first sight.
Tanisha Jackland Jun 2018
Good feeds the poor
It also shelters them
Good embraces difference
with inclusive arms
and does not deny people
their freedoms
nor kills them for
their right to protest injustice
Good does not laugh
at the expense of others
and very often laughs at itself
it protects the Earth
with everything in its power
and knows we are all part
of the Earth like the flowers
and the animals
Good is having a heart and
not afraid to use it
and if you don't care for Good
then maybe you are not so Good
and that is a bad thing...
We need more good. Less bad.
Tanisha Jackland Jun 2018
Pain is red revenge
blood clotting grudge
swollen deep into the
cut that isn't you
while
healing is blue bliss
cool fluid forgiveness
soul soothing freedom
that is all the time you
Release the past and the pain releases you.
Tanisha Jackland Jun 2018
We are the toxic breath
that has permeated the air
we are noxious and noisy
and lumbering thru our days
like the ill-acquainted tourist

We made the pollution
for our ears
as the monsters continue
to take what was never
theirs in the first place

so we keep secrets under
our tongues afraid of
stumbling over the truth

We are nothing but the ugly
sound of humanity
paving over the goodness
of the land...
Earth good.  Man not.
Tanisha Jackland Jun 2018
US
We let
them induce
trauma to babies and
feed children to cages
mean gestures
felt across the divide
We are the monsters
in Grimm's Fairy Tales
the beasts of nightmares
and bad dreams
deplorable is our apathy
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