Here's what's incredible about writing in a journal my entire life - I can find big moments like prom and graduation...read myself back to life. This poem includes snippets from the entry I wrote the day after my prom. Grade 12. Age 18. Tonight, my daughter has her prom, some thirty years (and five days!)… Continue reading POEM A DAY – June 13
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Poem 175 – History’s Elegy
History’s Elegy history reveals itself skinless dirt-smearedviolently deepyet never unawareof its voice things buried growseepspeaka languagetongued by shadow history reveals skin
Poem 42 – Considering History
Considering History “There were humans long before there was history.” pg. 4, Sapiens, A Brief History of Human Kind by Yuval Noah Harari This past of oursriddled with riddleswith punchlineswe’re still discovering. But lines, oh yes, they are rich. Linesof life stretched acrossthe planet for millionsof years – including the line ofHomo Sapiensone of three speciesin… Continue reading Poem 42 – Considering History
VANESSA SHIELDS 