Rudy Francisco :)

"Mimosifolia"

Joshua Bennette - Levi

"Ten years ago, the neurologist cast autism like a giant fishing net over his brain.

Took the entire family under the tide with it.

Never said gift.

Never suggested

maybe my Levi’s words weren’t rusty anchors

like the rest of ours.

They’re jellyfish:

You think you can see right through them,

but it’s because you’re only watching the surface.

His mind is more like the world’s most extravagant circus

all trapeze and lion teeth

drum beat and riotous laughter

Every sentence

a staccato hymn

in the midst of a world

that has forgotten how to value silence."

-Joshua Bennette

Our Children - Ramou Jallow

Gardenia - Jasmine Mas & Jennah Bell

"The last quarter has flushed itself into the belly of the jukebox, his lips has released its kiss from the saxophone, but I'm... but I'm still here... dancing... can someone tell me if I've crashed yet ?"- Jasmine Mans

Rudy Francisco

A great start to the day with Rudy Francisco, love this poem.

End Of Day Traffic

Miles Hodges and Carvens Lissaint - "Strive"

“May the days you wish you were somebody else

never return.

May you learn the braille of glory and happiness

until the sidewalks sing with everything you truly are,

and the street corners cave in your name,

and the nightmares are no more.

May the faith engulf depression into ash.

May the choirs of demons be muffled,

silent like the breeze of an explosion.”

Truths

The "Known Knowns" - Donald H. Rumsfeld

Joshua Bennette - White House, Spoken Word

"I waited, was patient, numberless years anticipating the second her ears would open like lotuses and allow my sunlight sentences to seep into her insides, make her remember, all those conversations we must have had in heaven back when God hand picked us to sibling souls, centuries ago."

Impeccable Conception, Maya Angelou

The Meeting of Color

Sidewalk Poetry

The City of Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA continues to keep its legacy for "the confluence of commerce and splendor, artistry and industry"  alive through the creation of public art.

One of the projects carried out is called "Everyday Poems for City Sidewalk," which is tied in with the annual maintenance of the sidewalks around the city. Here, an yearly poetry contest is held by the residence of St Paul where the winner has their poem pressed in the sidewalk as general maintenance takes place.

This is a picture of a poem by Margaret Hasse, one of the winners of the contest in 2008

Awesome stuff!

For more information, check out http://publicartstpaul.org/about/

Subtleties of the Weather

Circles

Your Elusive Creative Genius

Elizabeth Gilbert on Creativity and its link with Vulnerability and Anxiety-

"Maybe it doesn't have to be so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extra-ordinary aspects of your being came from you, but maybe if you just believed that they were un-loaned to you, from some imaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life, to be passed along when your finished to someone else….and if we think about it this way, it starts to change everything."

The Crown

Marrysong

Strokes

The Solemn Doorway

Robert Frost-The Road Less Travelled

Something New :)

This marks the first step in trying something new! Welcome to Wonderlust! Yes-Wonder. On this blog,  I will be sharing written pieces  of my favorite writers as well as my own. A lot of us back out of expressing ourselves creatively because of the pressure of not saying "the right creative thing" in the words of David Kelley in his TED Talk or feeling that we are not creative, but the idea behind this blog is to celebrate love for written word and imperfect perfection in our thoughts and scribbles. I hope I inspire your mind to wonder as I attempt to find my creative feet!
I'd also like to open this space to all of you, should you have any pieces you've been working on and which you'd like to share, please link up with me and you can post them here too!
So here we go!