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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.
Tanisha Jackland Oct 2021
Be a raging storm when you must.
Just don't get carried away.
Tanisha Jackland Oct 2021
I'd rather be me
than you
in this skin
there are no apologies
just small anxieties
that come with
a purpose
to move me into
the center of my being
unafraid
to be happy in these bones
and free to be me
familial sea
asteroid debris
plagued black sun
the chain undone
derivation drought
acetylene light burnt out
sands of a surname
run through veins as aspartame
in departed sons & daughters
blood is thicker than water
but drains ever so faster
I've slept too long

      no more the slumber

      life's next song

      is springing to my ear--



      beauty will never do any wrong

      as bouquets of wonder she sets to gather

      with love and rejoicing in music's throng

      life doesn't die--it will live forever
Tanisha Jackland Oct 2021
I am my own medicine
the poison is me
but I am not bound
by my word
for the sky is me
as well as the scent
from a wild flower
when you see me
I am also the mountain
you cannot move
to know my strength
is happiness
in the elements of earth
to know I am the still
water flowing
is peace
I am calm
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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