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Dear Hera

26 December 2018 0 comments

  You goddess you! Anger and freedom Fire licking wind bursting like pomegranate seeds pop pop Shoot them down on the path to your soul And when you reach the space where lava meets earth transforms it into crackling will...

Category: Poems | Tags: Acceptance, Anger, Freedom, Identity

An ode to my son – part 2

16 November 2018 0 comments

I went to an all-girls school. We had little awareness of the budding magic of our young bodies, we did not have boyfriends, a party was a sleepover with amateur manicures and gossip. We did not have any internet, our...

Category: Musings | Tags: Children, Identity, Love, Me, Motherhood, Women

An ode to my son – part 1

11 November 2018 0 comments

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You are the...

Category: Musings | Tags: Children, Identity, Love, Me, Motherhood, Women

Call to sacrifice

16 March 2018 0 comments

Go forth and bring peace to the world they told us Yours are the voices Your hearts will set things straight (as if in its crookedness we are falling off the planet, us unsung heroines) Every story you share will...

Category: Poems | Tags: Identity, Motherhood, Women

I believe

16 March 2018 0 comments

I believe each person is equal let’s not deceive ourselves by creating differences then say they existed before we were born I believe the colour of human skin differs but we all bleed red We all shit and piss the...

Category: Poems | Tags: Courage, Freedom, Identity, Me, Shame

The accidental refugee and the crisis of accepting who you are: a short essay on belonging.

15 March 2018 0 comments

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home. Pico Iyer Living in Dubai,...

Category: Musings | Tags: Expat life, Identity, Me

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