The time to embrace the shift in seasons is here. It is smiling at me from the other side of the fence and I want nothing more but to cuddle it's warm unpredictable face. I am working hard to gain my fluency back.
This freewrite has sat on mind for days. It has made it presence known in everything I try to create. Today, grant it freedom.
Sometimes, I pick up my tablet and the keyboard dances in prose like today but then again there are times when birthing words beats birthing my brood. Hopefully this piece finds you well...
Tell me you see it too.
The agony of walking among men
That you know growth is more painful than routine
That you are aware that you cannot cage what doesn't want to sit still
Tell me you know life won't settle
That it evolves while the moon revolves around the earth
And the sun shines during the day.
Tell them we hail from forgotten villages
Some lost slices of heaven tucked away in our pasts
That our young lungs mastered the art of inhaling soot
While our thatched roofs wore her residue throughout
Tell them our feet flattened the black soil
Long after it lost its warriors to the horizons of the ocean waters
Even as the wombs they emerged from bleed tears.
Tell me you know of it
The uncontainable rage of a broken heart
That you have had its throbbing emblems drain your energy
That her smoke has gladly choked the same chest it calls home
Tell me you have harboured the fear
To willingly trust a new face with your healing heart
After you have mended the gapping cracks.
Tell them we are the chosen ones
The lost generations have long been reborn in us
That they took our will to willingly ease into foreign identities
That we now can only listen to the echoes of our familiar ways
Tell them that we have relearnt the sacred languages
To help engage with the ancient wind and her well kept secrets
Looking to worship the voices of those who walked the earth before us.
Share your thoughts :)
wambuku w.
Incredible that you can produce this as a freewrite. There is so much depth and thematic substance, I imagine I could spend 5 or 6 years contemplating how to revise this into a seamlessly constructed poem. But perhaps it doesn't need that. As I read it, this is about the legacy of slavery and imperialism in Africa. Do you feel this pain?
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Everything I write nowadays is coming from a place of freewrites. Anything else is too much work. Yes it stemmed from a history class. Thank you for always taking the time to read what I cough up alphabetically :)
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This is not a daily 5 minute freewrite
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Lol. Calm yourself. I have always written this way and your community has always excluded it.
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This community is for the freewriters who use the daily prompt and the freewritehouse only. Please, remove your post it will be muted.
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Apologies.
You can mute it as I am unsure how to remove it.
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Hi Tezmel and welcome back.. Sorry their community is rude and unhelpful when it was an honest mistake. You can just remove that tag.
Would have been great if they had welcomed you and told you how to participate.
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Hey, @whatsup, glad to see you cruising here as well. I have a question, which may be profoundly simple, but I don't know how to figure it out without someone's help. Do you know how to add a curator to an account? This is for the Creative Coin Fund. Is it just a matter of sharing the posting key? Is that safe or the best way to do it? It seems like that would only give the curator the ability to vote and comment.... I just would feel better if someone who knows a bit more could confirm that.
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You are correct that the curator can use the posting key and would be able to vote and comment, but not move tokens.
Another way I have seen it handled is by having the main account follow the votes of a curation account.
So, account A votes and then the main account follows.
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Got it! Thank you.
Have you seen the CCC price action? The market is outpacing our buy-in order. Up to .0061. Maybe some SPS profit flowing over. :)
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I notice yesterday! Great job! keep it up
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Rude? Communities have rules and mistake or not we let know how or what and give the chance to be read.
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Lol. But you were RUDE :) Again. APOLOGIES for posting my unworthiness in your community :)
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Well, you could have just nicely welcomed her and gave her the scoop on how to participate.
Instead, you were rude.
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Thank you 😊
I have edited to untag but I can't seem to remove it's footprints in a community that no longer wants me but oh well.
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Go to edit, copy-paste the entire text and make a new post. Post it elsewhere or as a blog.
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Thank you but I don't see the need of your advice when you've already muted my post. Can I leave the community too? Lol.
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Maybe consider an upgrade to your communications.
Hi @user Thanks for utilizing our community, we noticed you didn't use the daily free-write prompt, which you can find.... ____ .
By using our tag (insert tag) you can post your eligible posts here..
Thanks for stopping by and we hope you come back.
appropriate links about the community here....
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