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234 · Jan 2019
You Will Get There
Tanisha Jackland Jan 2019
you in your discomfort
may you find the state of mind
that belongs to you.
Set on that vibe which may not
destroy you. for you are never
truly exhausted in being.
just soar and be with them.
the masters.
Ascend, May we all ascend in our own time.
234 · Aug 2018
The Authentic You
Tanisha Jackland Aug 2018
Do it for
the Art in you
for bringing
something to life
from the
utter despair
out from the void
of nothing
to the lives of
those who wonder

Do it for
the death bed
knowing one day
you'll leave this place
a cold and distant body
you could tune in more
from chaos of the
every day human

Finally, it's never
been done before
the absolute trip
of who you are
Be the you
you have to be
for the multitudes in need
of your unique art
Be yourself...you are so valueable
233 · Oct 2016
Shhhh...
Tanisha Jackland Oct 2016
You cannot disturb
what is already
making quite a raucous

In between the
gun shots and chatter
is this inaudible void
that feeds itself
when no one is looking

To hear it is like
hearing God
A frequency at which
we are frantically
trying to get away from

To be entertained
and extracted
from the sacredness of
what is subtle

We are a bad
loud bunch
just learning how
to be silent
learning how to
be God.
232 · Dec 2017
Unholy Trinity
Tanisha Jackland Dec 2017
Drink up
this sacrament

For the mysteries do
not pass
on your tongue

But offered as the
three phases
of woman

And the liars
You'd know them from
how they belittle us
the men with
envious ticks

Divinity ran rancid
in their mouths
Traitors to our souls

Now it's up to you
woman reclaim what
is proper and leave the phallus
where it belongs...
Far away from pedestals
229 · Sep 2018
The Necessity of Pandering
Tanisha Jackland Sep 2018
We should remember the Moon
How it never caters to the Sun
burning as bright as it wants to be
Never pandering to the Moon
Just sharing the sky
like they both belong there
Two great phenoms dividing this world
into night and day
and showing us that there is enough
time and space for everyone...
228 · Apr 2023
Skinfolk: An Ode to Zora
Tanisha Jackland Apr 2023
She reminds me
Soul has no color
it emanates from the sum
of life
as a vibrant symphony
of you

Those sole regrets
and moments revealing
themselves as
the bone truth

We are organized
of sound
and gravity

pulling us closer to
the source of divinity
we sometimes
forget
225 · Mar 2021
Incantation for a New Breed
Tanisha Jackland Mar 2021
they will bring out
the bad in everything
corporate men in power
they must apply the pain
and suffering
it is  no good for you or me
But it will be women
who conquer with love
armed with kindness
creating new breeds
of humans that will
bring in
strength with compassion 
 for harsh words
will trigger
a loaded gun
the spirit of man shall
renew itself
act by soulful act
to bring deep healing
and integrity
throughout the world
225 · May 2017
In Spirit
Tanisha Jackland May 2017
I shaped him

created him out

of my own image

until he became this

most precious flesh

I didn't know of fate

and how it would claim

him over and over again

then I got it,

in the most

certain of terms

and it feels like a sentence

I cannot escape from

but more like a wound

I am a sorry wound

that desperately needs mending...
222 · Jan 2018
Remember #28
Tanisha Jackland Jan 2018
That love poem you
are writing for your lover
is really you
writing to yourself
Everything but nothing.
221 · Feb 2023
Priceless
Tanisha Jackland Feb 2023
Priceless
Price tags
are for fools
laughing nonchalantly
at the dead air
'
the sky has fallen
for free
as if
gravity will cease
to
anchor you
to the Earth.

What we value most
No one can afford
you can only
know it thru a
divine spark
and touch it from
the marrow of
your bones

Perhaps if you're lucky
and true
the Sun
will reveal itself
as God.
220 · Dec 2018
Who You Are
Tanisha Jackland Dec 2018
You are persuaded into
believing that you are only
flesh of flesh.
or blood from blood.
But there is more to it than this
your faulty beliefs about
yourself.
For you are a labyrinth.
a meditation on all things.
You are the fire that will
live on til eternity.
The forever awareness
realizing itself over and over
again for eons of love, light
and the reciprocity of being...
Who you are and me too.
Tanisha Jackland Dec 2017
Suspended within
the dark womb of space
We are this immortal
expression of one
singular phenomenon
We all began in mystery
We all began as female
The open catalyst for all things
The mysterious dark female...This is the root of Heaven and Earth  -Tao Te Ching
218 · May 2022
Blessed are the Women
Tanisha Jackland May 2022
They'd rather we hide
our magic
underneath the stones
thrown at us
to keep us quiet and
away from our power

But we are
everywhere

In the fire you burnt us
to be reborn again
from the soot

In the air you suffocated us
to wax and wane again
with the breath of the moon
within us

In the water you drowned us
to birth bolder
lungs to cradle us again
with her blood

In the earth you buried us to
grow again like seeds from its
precious womb
218 · Oct 2016
Softly
Tanisha Jackland Oct 2016
I will feed you warm
bowls of soft words
until your soul bones
have been nourished
so that you may walk
on moonbeams
and talk with God.

Then I will tuck you
into the sunset
so that you may rise again
with the sky
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone/softly-1?in=ladyofire/sets/bitzone-and-lof-collabs
217 · Dec 2017
You Again
Tanisha Jackland Dec 2017
You are some kind
of trapper
a mere shadow
I cannot grasp
but still stalking me

You've been clocking
me by the moments
ticking me in
with the favor
sugar daddy in waiting
superman subtle
you are a hunter
with sweet words
as your crumbs

I may follow you
to my sugary demise
candy killer
slow honey soup
on my tongue

I'll lick you up  
while you
smell so good
216 · Jul 2016
It Could Happen
Tanisha Jackland Jul 2016
feelings look like bones
hard and white skeletons
of your movement into boredom
onto the threshold of happiness
Then again
if you look hard
enough at a brick wall
it becomes a window
into another dimension...
213 · Nov 2017
The Cover Up
Tanisha Jackland Nov 2017
It takes a world of kindness
to cover up a heart of coal
for mine is a blackened blindness
dark enough to steal your soul

visit this depth of nothingness
don't fathom its layers of theft
for I cover up this hole of emptiness
with smiles and remnants of fret

Living each day as a fraud
if only you could see
this authenticity
ingenious words on the sly
then you'd shut up and be grateful
and go away to hide

I don't have much patience
for small talk and lies
but it takes a script
that's fraudulent
to make the stage a disguise

But please always remember
its my life and a story of just cause
And I am delighted to tell you
This poem is nothing but a fraud
210 · Apr 2019
Calyx
Tanisha Jackland Apr 2019
You are a novice to this
Earth bound seedling
stubborn headed leading
Take the darkness and
wrap it around you
a cold shawl
retreating you
with the eyes of
mother moon upon you
You budding you
in full view
Every gaze like the Sun
You come full bloom
and hold the days
living from heart
Bloom baby bloom
210 · Aug 2019
Do Not Define Me
Tanisha Jackland Aug 2019
If You do you
and I do you too
how would I know
my worth to be true.

would I have left
the house of glee
that stays on my face
most eagerly
to please
those who have no
interest in me.

or am I just another you
looking for smiles
that keep calling me boo.

But we are each other
more of the same
how different we are
is a matter quite lame.

For there is a little of me
and a bit of you
in everything sentient
that we do

Makes life more
meaningful and souful alas
the diversity of life
makes this place a blast.

So you be you
and I'll do me
together we'll live
in authenticity
205 · May 2018
Not Again
Tanisha Jackland May 2018
Here I am again
in the thrush of
falling apart again
I don't want to leave
my body another time
It's so cold over there
the chains heavier
and seldom unseen
everyone pretends in freedom
but all of them scared
they see
their eyes
see the horror
they feel the doom
there we are all encumbered
Please I don't want to go there again
Please
Not again
Enough said.
203 · Jul 2019
Before Sunrise
Tanisha Jackland Jul 2019
I am like nobody

but you can't say

things like that

and come off humble

or modest as such

No I am not like you

before sunrise

i seek out mirrors

that burn with my reflection

I free my self every morn

before sunrise

deleting the gradients

between you and me

you see

I was born a super hero

from a land far far away

and I have not forgotten

I was a supreme badass
203 · Aug 2019
Sea Gypsy
Tanisha Jackland Aug 2019
Go to the Sea
and lumber in its air
until you feel
the iridescent breeze
will lead you to Her
Sea woman
ocean gypsy
with the night painted
on Her skin
She has shiny stars in
unkempt hair
find Her
remind Her
to walk like us
under the moon...
202 · Nov 2016
No More
Tanisha Jackland Nov 2016
Our species is dying
We are becoming extinct
with every breath of contempt
You are hating us into oblivion

And I think it *****.
201 · Aug 2019
Hotel Midnight
Tanisha Jackland Aug 2019
I'm not going there
to the dark side of what
frightens you, darling

I am bewildered with
the songs of ghosts

I dream in prophecy
Got the proclivity towards
mastering hands on healing

Not knowing if my father
is dead or alive
I heard him dreaming

He spoke to me from
the clouds like he
was the lord

my lord was a happy
golden color with
the power to leave
these crusted old
familial wounds
of miscommunication
behind...

which has torn us
all asunder

I may have been
forgiven by them
those who once or thrice
had forsaken me

but I say I am a bewildered fool
not going to the dark side
just yet...
200 · Jun 2018
All The Time You
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.
200 · Nov 2019
Before Sunrise
Tanisha Jackland Nov 2019
I am like nobody

but you can't say

things like that

and come off humble

or modest as such

No I am not like you

before sunrise

i seek out mirrors

that burn with my reflection

I free my self every morn

before sunrise

deleting the gradients

between you and me

you see

I was born a super hero

from a land far far away

and I have not forgotten

I am a supreme badass
198 · Apr 2023
Alchemist
Tanisha Jackland Apr 2023
This new music
comes to the
masses stomping
unfazed
a soldier girl
on a mission
changing this
frequency
into pure
light...
198 · Jan 2019
Tongue
Tanisha Jackland Jan 2019
Tongue is good.
but not so dazzling
when it is trying
to be the truth.
198 · May 2021
cheese
Tanisha Jackland May 2021
Cameras 📷 make
us vain
make us flat
2D imitations
of ourselves
Not too deep
one liners
hogging the awkward stage
finding the right
angle to show and tell
glutton for your eyes
we binge on selfies
like eating a never
ending cake
we post like
we are not in hell
stuffing
our faces but
still
hungry
197 · Jul 2018
Love Potion #4
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.
196 · Nov 2022
Untitled #19
Tanisha Jackland Nov 2022
Breathe fire
but do not get burnt

She waits to see you
consumed by that

for you will be the ash
and not the wind
blowing away
the
embers of bigotry

She devours those unjust

Will meet them
by the stake of their
own hatred

separating divinity
from the bone with
gavels of fire

particles in the Sun
Dust hanging in the air
Like
blasphemy
196 · Nov 2017
Apathy and Its Passion
Tanisha Jackland Nov 2017
I am numb from
feeling so much

to believe is to
be let down at
some point

it might as well be
make believe
fairy tale kind of nonsense

It makes the
apathy feel so much better
but deep down we
all know who is
full of it

and the nonbelievers
are really candle
holding angels
longing to bless you and
kiss your feet...
196 · Nov 2018
Attention-Hound
Tanisha Jackland Nov 2018
She was never really seen.
until he came along.
His eyes that sought her out.
The form of her was so appealing.
But unbeknownst to her.
He had another set of eyes.
that weighed her heart
like a man gone mad.
He saw the truth in her
hidden beneath the front.
Her inside shining glorious
and it was very godly.
More soul.
195 · Feb 2019
The Dry Bones
Tanisha Jackland Feb 2019
The dry bones have given up
they continue to seek their shelter
under a barren Sun
while the politicians
reek havoc

they blame poverty
on the penniless poor
and on the wounded warriors
whose feathers have been
clipped on purpose
and by design.

One day the truth will
inhabit the Earth
and shall reign again.
But not until you've suffered
long enough
and have thoroughly listened to
what is true of the plants
the trees the stars the moon
And yes that barren Sun.
192 · Dec 2016
For You Only
Tanisha Jackland Dec 2016
Once you know
there is no opting out
like a quaint thing
yet there are spaces for
the timid too, but not this space
This space is exclusive
For you only

And for the ones
ready for the baton
who will
run wanton with all
of the bones and audacity
they could wildly gather

Once you know the soul
of your being
there is no opting out
just the sheer breadth of
possibility
to let the shower of truth
grace over you with its atoms

Once you find your own
here and now
you will forever
know and be known
by more than
a billion
molecules of
dust and matter...

And all of this is for you
and you only
192 · Aug 2020
Digital Mystics
Tanisha Jackland Aug 2020
They conjure up
Numbers from
the sacred air like
alpha shamans always do
saging poetics and
placing their hands
on the mouse of
your spine
just a page away
from nirvana
they say it would heal you
the old incantations
of an ancient
magic speaking to you
in tongues with clicks
layered in keyboard divination
they are here to say
you can illuminate
the world with love
laughing with your bellies
192 · Aug 2022
Brick House
Tanisha Jackland Aug 2022
I feel my age these days
bones creaking
the need to be well-oiled
like some kind of
tin woman
all rusted
on metal parts
I need refurbishing
then I could swag
with a new body
without dying
Be all bionic
built like
a brickhouse
again...
191 · Apr 2019
Bee Woman
Tanisha Jackland Apr 2019
They mocked her
And called her
Professor Big nose
That God refused to shape
her into identity
And woe to the woman
With non-existent eyebrows
They have shunned
her like the weak
Browed witches before her
Ain't sanctified with charmed
pendants like that
Exciting the fates in the
unseen ghosts
Ugly woman with the
Honey-glow and deep ancient eyes
lips too big and natural
They must be the flaw of her existence
She was too black for black
And too much of her as She
190 · Sep 2018
Prayer for a Metal Dog
Tanisha Jackland Sep 2018
I got bit yesterday
You said I taste
metal sweet upon
your lips

So I returned the favor
and sought you out
with the lashing
of my tongue

taking the edible
bits of you
my holy sacrament
188 · Apr 2023
Little Black Matchstik Girl
Tanisha Jackland Apr 2023
No locks of gold she would have worn
Nor fair in skin she would adorn

Every time she rose to speak
No ears to listen how they sleep

No one cared for the girl with naps
How she read you like a map

She had issues with her self
All of them on a dusty shelf

For everyone to judge and see
Her human flaws plauging thee

With no one there to help her plight
Her body began to dim in light

when she died in dark and cold
No one knew her depth in soul

Who was a fire that warmed the old
A golden angel you would behold
182 · Nov 2022
chemistry
Tanisha Jackland Nov 2022
Whenever you are
with me

my hair
dances on
my skin

slipstreams
on surface

I glide over you
the shock electric

you fill me
with ghosts

completed
you fit in

You are the true
element in me

Keeping me
stable
181 · Feb 2019
They Say
Tanisha Jackland Feb 2019
The ego leads to suffering
but without these
challenges to your soul
who would you be.
none would aspire to greatness.
None physically phenomenal.
Just the knowing
of how you use to be.

I believe the sufferer
to be inherant
of the hu-man breed
and our hubris
innately our own.
but how else would
we get to truth
by failing error after error

It's all just a matter
of perspective
and still the Sun revolves
around me.
181 · Oct 2021
Lessons from Nature 101:
Tanisha Jackland Oct 2021
Be a raging storm when you must.
Just don't get carried away.
180 · Aug 2022
Remember Me
Tanisha Jackland Aug 2022
Inside I am a
raging inferno

no one sees it

I fool them with
My undercover
Breath

I could be satiated by
this raining madness

Remember me

the woman who
speaks in
fragments of
the moon

showing mercy
with the tongue of
ancient reeds

Water meeting fire
in my throat
178 · Aug 2019
Let Them Rise
Tanisha Jackland Aug 2019
We were born
of divinity. you are
the infinite.
It was written
within us.
God wrote the codes
in us. You
Let them rise
the fractals of eternity
Let them rise and
search no further.
For death is the beginning
There is no end.
just peace. bliss and
the everlasting unknown.
177 · May 2019
Confession #9
Tanisha Jackland May 2019
I am a shapeshifter
a chameleon of
this world

I am forbidden
and sweet
an illusion
you've tasted
many times

I am the nerve of
your thoughts
unseen
on the billow
of impermanent
clouds...
176 · Jun 2023
Bare Green Earth
Tanisha Jackland Jun 2023
Today
I will put
these aging
feet on the bare
green Earth
again.

I will close my eyes
and feel the verdant energy
traverse thru my legs
up to the column of my spine

restoring
the fractures
in my soul.

Born organic
I belong to the Earth.

waking
the pure intelligence
within my body
in order to
find its way
Home.
Rinse and Repeat.
175 · Aug 2019
Stale Toast
Tanisha Jackland Aug 2019
When you find love
then you are worthy
you will see a pattern
it does not wax or wane
like it is at the mercy of the moon
this is for foolish lovers
of the youth
but when love stays
like the stale in toast
this is what will make you full
keep you healing
True love is nothing
to write home about
But it will save you.
174 · Nov 2021
Wake the Children Sleeping
Tanisha Jackland Nov 2021
We are the one s
Who have slept
eyes open
Sleep walking
awake
In daydreams
‘It’s too sad’
We weep
‘too noisy’
we wail
To be without
The bliss
Of not knowing
To exist in the
Reality of a harsh world
but the Earth needs
you awake while you’re here
to tread
gently upon the Earth
To give yourself
Time to unfurl
from the brutality of this
modern world
to stop Her destruction
by being mindful
of everything you do
You have arrived
At your destiny
Awake child
Awake.
174 · Sep 2021
Full Moon w/Elderberries
Tanisha Jackland Sep 2021
Pick them
While the moon is ripe
harvest your intentions
amongst the elderberries
For it is the time
of the night sky
everything dark
has its own reflection
cast your spells this evening
like the black goddess
cloaked in silvery madness
Don't be shy and
afraid of your truth
Be like the moon
hiding Her face in
the protection of clouds
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