Today, is World Poetry Day and I thought I would do a brave thing and record a live reading of one of my poems — on being the holy broken.
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This is a first for me and I have no clue what I am doing, so please forgive me for the imperfections and the boy-child noise in the background, but apart from a Poet’s cape, I also wear a Mum cape ;-) and boys don’t have a volume adjustor!
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I will be posting the full version on my writer’s page on Facebook and if anyone can tell me how to share this to my ‘Stories’ I would be most grateful.
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Enjoy,
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liezel
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all the tears
of my
foremothers,
spill
hot
relief
onto the pages
that i write.
i weep in ink.
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—on why i write.
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© Liezel Graham 2018.
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Photograph by Gustavo Alcantara.
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Why do I write?
Why do I bleed ink onto paper? Because of them, because of you and because of me.
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There are women, who share my DNA — generations back and there are women who are my sisters by the sharing of hearts, and wombs and fears — women not known to me, but whose stories share the same ancient refrain.
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Whose voices need to be heard — need to be honoured.
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Whose healing I seek — for me, and for those who will walk the earth after me.
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My hope is that they will walk in love and healing and peace.
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This, is why I write,
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liezel
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