Ten Truths TRUTH #1: I have started writing this blog over and over and over. Today, I commit to writing and finishing it. TRUTH #2: Since I began my post as Poet Laureate, I have retreated. I have felt fears I haven't felt since I was a child. I have felt small, humiliated, weak, ugly,… Continue reading Ten Truths & Summer Recap
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Poem 140 – Startling Truths
Startling Truths you can thinkwhat do I do with all this truth?as your hands instinctively openpalms up – like it’s holdable the truth can be startlingan undoing, evenwhen you discover itsstaggering volume you can fall to your kneestear out grass orpinch your thigh &cry-whisper: is this truly so? the truth answers in morning dew’s cheekon sparrow’s… Continue reading Poem 140 – Startling Truths
VANESSA SHIELDS, writer 