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76 · Mar 2020
Just a Place
Tanisha Jackland Mar 2020
We all want a place
in this world
to fit in like a puzzle piece
plebeian and all happy
like
this world isn't perfect enough
this isn't peaceful enough

if we are all encumbered
by the weight
of just one oppression
just think of how
stifled we are with
millions of them
75 · Feb 2020
Daydreams of Flowers
Tanisha Jackland Feb 2020
I get so lost from you

daydreaming of revenge

on wolves who'd prey

on you

or how the

syrup from your lips

keeps me so drunk

I get enravelled

in the flesh

that I lose some of you

each time I bring the glory

to myself

So I try to daydream of roses

they are safe it's wise to say

for they will not lead

me away from you

towards the brimstone

and decay
75 · Mar 2020
Lay Down
Tanisha Jackland Mar 2020
But do not go to sleep
73 · Jul 2020
Truth is a Frequency
Tanisha Jackland Jul 2020
You'll know it when
you feel it
right between your
solar plexus and gut
Tune your life by it
for You are the middle man
deciding when to
calibrate your mind
to this higher realm
Once you go there
it's hard to come back
Illusion is the hardest
craving to break
we live there at all times
To be truth one must
find their own vibration
and live from this frequency
of true freedom
73 · Apr 2020
Watering Plants
Tanisha Jackland Apr 2020
Give them a drink
then watch them cascade
to the sky
they look for the good food
light from the Sun
will pour into your soul
when you remember to
give them a drink
and breathe...
73 · Feb 2020
Treason and Oranges
Tanisha Jackland Feb 2020
The man with the fake tan
is in the house painted
arrogant white
How he fits well sitted
Says he is
the new messiah
Follow him
So into oblivion we go
but the road is out
and we are left in the cold
with no shoes  
no bodies clothed
While the fake tan man
ignores the sweltering
heat about him
pays his buddies voiceless
like all good billionaires do
bad news for all of us
from the man with
the basketball skin
73 · Jul 2020
The Tragedy of Hip
Tanisha Jackland Jul 2020
To make corduroy cool
you'll need to be
the grand ole size of a
5'2 sprite
Be perky having
thrift-shop lovin flip-flop
wearing, I'm going to
make a bold statement with my
clothes inducing, young
and up and coming, professional
with a namaste projecting
attitude.
71 · Mar 2020
If Water Was Woman
Tanisha Jackland Mar 2020
Water is blood
it flows flawless sacred
from the head of mountains
to the feet of forests
sometimes still
****** to your lips

I'll never understand
the apprehension
for water
like cursing the woman
who gave you life

Water eludes those
who would besiege her
The undeserving ones
The haters who would burn her
at the stake if she were to
manifest

Alas water being
the blueprint
for life is merciful  
to us all
and a tireless enigma
of the female sort
71 · Mar 2020
Toxic Tendencies
Tanisha Jackland Mar 2020
The locale of this

body was once worn

It was the crash pad

and the last place

You'd ever look

for me

But

when I am gone

I bet you will

remember that

in some way

I shall live

again...
71 · Feb 2020
My Big Secret
Tanisha Jackland Feb 2020
I tried to hide it

In layers of baggy peasantry

in mishap crinkles of sloppy

Nothing to adorn my face

but its earthy ashen glow



He found me despite this

false exterior

This plump mass of

flesh and matter



He followed the

trail of smolder

leading to my lips



Watched me lick

the air and for an instant

stood immobile

Mouth slightly agape
70 · Mar 2020
Not the Enemy
Tanisha Jackland Mar 2020
The real fiend is you
don't defeat him
or make him stupid
just sit with him
and feel his presence
67 · Apr 2020
Holding Up The Sky
Tanisha Jackland Apr 2020
They are self less
Holding up the sky with
compassionate limbs
they guard
The world for nothing
True poets
with silence as their tongues
Sacrificing their lives
to get a peek
at life animating
knowing the dark
Sustenance of the ground
To walk on land
with sacred feet
65 · Jul 2020
I Poet Hard
Tanisha Jackland Jul 2020
It's all here
the pen
the paper
and the poet
perfectly
existing
simultaneous
in the
same
space
at
one
time...
64 · Jul 2020
Ides of Skies
Tanisha Jackland Jul 2020
They told
lies with cold wives
sent their idle mothers
to die on tides
those treacherous nights
lead men to fight and
take flight
But She
was sent here
thru Her own thighs
they demised her wise and
planted her
six feet high
in the sky...
Tanisha Jackland Apr 2020
Don’t weep
you cure the sick air
with a robust love
Passing out redemption
Like lollipops for broken dreams
You are the reluctant warrior
Here to mend torn casualties
from mankind’s cruelty
a new dawn has emerged
with every shift you take
You know who you are
In the trenches muddy
And sodden but moving
Steadily towards
A towering grace
Thank you.
63 · Mar 2020
Lit
Tanisha Jackland Mar 2020
Lit
Candlelit dinners
are meant to impress
I've seen the show
'Keeping Up Appearances'
way too many times
to acquire that knowledge
but candles are filters for
aged women like me
the glow softens the face
then I begin to look like
a 'Star Trek' cameo shot
with vaseline smeared
all over the lens
To be young and
wrinkle-less again
would be my dream
just without the dumb that
comes with it
Tanisha Jackland Jul 2020
We are evolving
Finally the monster
is rising slowly and
rubbing its heavy eyes
to a pant less world
a world without
cut throats and apathy
"Your hierarchary
is crumbling"
and people are jumping
from high places
the glass shattering
above us
None of us have anything
to wear but this same
nakedness
the same wounds
weeping and yet, there are
those of us who truly
want to heal.

— The End —