explore | Grilled Cheese

it’s wednseday and you know what that means? new poem! 🩷 #poetry #instapoetry #poemoftheday #happywednesday

As we face a winter of rising prices & fuel costs, how common will this scene be?

The poem's power lies in acute observation & unsentimental tone

How you can be sustained by each other & memories when you have little more than a room of cluttered pasts

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Yet what I sowed and what the orchard yields
my brother's sons are gathering stalk and root;
small wonder then my children glean in fields
they have not sown, and feed on bitter fruit.

—Arna Bontemps was born #OnThisDay in 1902. #PoemOfTheDay https://bit.ly/4h7PMeM

There are few poets with the audacity or credibility to write this poem

Honestly, I think the poet has sold herself short!

This poem challenges beauty standards, which have often excluded Black women, and replaces them with a more grounded model of beauty

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back to posting regularly be like #poetry #instapoetry #poemoftheday #poetrybyme

Delighted to have performed last night at the Frances Browne Literary Festival with Sheddas on the Page & to be placed 3rd in the poetry competition

The highlight of the night was the incredible Armagh Rhymers, keeping the ancient art of ‘Mumming’ alive

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