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SONG: Acknowledge Me by Prince: https://youtu.be/zrgP_4r54_I POEM: Jen Tynes: After Tagging the Dust Your Body Is Made Of (excerpt): … Electricity changes, there is no body to acknowledge through touch, I fling forward past my desires … QUOTE: Brene Brown: Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love […]
SONG: Pray for Forgiveness by Alicia Keyes: https://youtu.be/IvdYcpGw9Oo POEM: Jane Hirshfield: The Weighing (excerpt): The heart’s reasons seen clearly, even the hardest will carry its whip-marks and sadness and must be forgiven. QUOTE: Veronica Roth: Can I be forgiven for all I’ve done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.
SONG: Transgression by Kodak Black: https://youtu.be/iMy1o0XUWg8 POEM: William Shakespeare: Sonnet 120 (excerpt) … And for that sorrow which I then did feel Needs must I under my transgression bow … QUOTE: Leo Buscaglia: I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for […]
SONG: Mercy by Shawn Mendes: https://youtu.be/KkGVmN68ByU QUOTE: Maya Angelou: Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. POEM: Jose Antonio Rodriguez: Mercy (excerpt) … if you find me hereErecting the same elements With these meager tools, Wanting even now to give them life, That […]
SONG: Rend Your Heart by MNaria Gilpin: https://youtu.be/srhuEphj9Y0 POEM: HD (Hilda Doolittle): Garden (excerpt). II. O wind, rend open the heat, cut apart the heat, rend it to tatters. Fruit cannot drop through this thick air— fruit cannot fall into heat that presses up and blunts the points of pears and rounds the grapes. Cut […]