Maura Alia Badji 's Posts
|
September 15, 2008 10:27 PM EDT --
Obama Nation is a hodge-podge of bogus and deceptive "research", the same old reconstituted lies people have used to attack Barack Obama for years. The book is chockful of factual . . .
more
|
|
July 24, 2008 03:33 AM EDT --
“My fave ice cream memory is when my mom took a teeming carload of us--me, my two younger brothers and a gaggle of our friends to Howard Johnson's (AKA HoJo's) for ice cream. We were on our way . . .
more
|
|
July 04, 2008 07:05 PM EDT --
Welcome to Shameless Self Promoters: The Remix!
Come let us shamelessly gather together on gather to promote, plug and otherwise market our talents/products/articles. You know you've . . .
more
|
|
July 01, 2008 07:20 PM EDT --
Maria Amato Congilosi sat straight-backed in front of her black lacquer vanity and wound her braid around her head. Tucking in amber-colored hair pins, she formed a . . .
more
|
|
July 24, 2006 07:39 AM EDT --
A poetic comparison
...and the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers,
is always the first to be touched by the thorns.
Thomas Moore
But he that dares not grasp the thorn
should never . . .
more
|
|
July 23, 2006 01:18 PM EDT --
My dear Gather familia, please stop by and lend me your remedies and recipes for getting over heartbreak. How best does one get over the loss of a love, especially when one initiated . . .
more
|
|
July 15, 2006 07:22 AM EDT --
Woman in The Moon
Full Moon
My womb a room
Preparing itself
Unknown, Full
Moon glowing soon
My hope a rune
Unreadable, full
Moon growing room
A gourd hollowed
To hold a tune, full
Moon . . .
more
|
|
July 13, 2006 09:25 AM EDT --
Some online and offline resources: not a complete list
1. Single Mothers Online: http://singlemothers.org/SMO/index.php
2. Single Rose: http://www.singlerose.com/
3. The Complete Single Mother by Andrea . . .
more
|
|
July 12, 2006 08:37 AM EDT --
In The House Of The Riddle Mother (a dream)
I.
My mother kisses me
goodbye through Friendly Plastic.
She is melting halfway down
broken stairs when I
remember to shout
Show me your . . .
more
|
|
July 11, 2006 11:26 AM EDT --
My book of poems, Resculpting, is now once again available for sale on AMAZON.COM:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0964625113/sr=8-1/qid=1152630870/ref=sr_1_1/002-1218955-4265653?ie=UTF8
I have . . .
more
|
|
July 11, 2006 12:54 AM EDT --
HEROINES
(for Marilyn Mashburn Lewis and Joan Stuart Ross )
Tall women stride, fast
with bright African
hats, complicated
earrings. Quick women:
moving wits, purple
scarves, wide . . .
more
|
|
July 11, 2006 12:14 AM EDT --
Muse, 1924
When, in the night, I wait for her, impatient,
Life seems to me, as hanging by a thread.
What just means liberty, or youth, or approbation,
When compared with the gentle piper's . . .
more
|
|
July 10, 2006 10:59 AM EDT --
"For me, everything in poetry should be out of place."
--Anna Akhmatova
"With a changing key
You unlock the house where
The snow of what's silenced drifts." . . .
more
|
|
July 09, 2006 12:43 AM EDT --
Survivor's song
Better to cry
than to tighten your jaw
til your teeth crack
in your sleep.
Better to talk, to tell.
Unshed tears
may sharpen to razor points
as lethal as avenging daggers . . .
more
|
|
July 09, 2006 12:21 AM EDT --
No Ribbons, No Flags
She stands on a beach,
beside the armored tank,
its mouth pointing
towards sea. Sky bruised,
the clouds' red shadow
reflected on sand.
She wears . . .
more
|
|
July 08, 2006 11:55 PM EDT --
So long, Mr. Nick
for Alfonso Congilosi
Papa, I can't believe
they shaved your white Santa beard,
leaving you blank.
Looking lost, and defenseless
in the velvet of the casket. . . .
more
|
|
July 08, 2006 11:49 PM EDT --
Rememory
Afterwards,
there were months spent
scraping myself clean
against solid rock,
baring bone,
muscle, blood, stone.
Until I learned
I didn't have to hurt
to get better, that . . .
more
|
|
July 06, 2006 10:45 PM EDT --
Calling Angels
The graveyard glowed
that night, some lost planet
in the moonlight.
Not so strange a place
for tenderness or love. Slow
we walked, no words between us.
Filled the gaps . . .
more
|
|
July 06, 2006 06:46 PM EDT --
The psychic said
my long-dead Aunt Norma, beatnik
poet-- who in black Capezio flats escaped
Buffalo for San Francisco and a round bed,
before she took sick-- was in league
with my Sicilian . . .
more
|
|
July 05, 2006 10:41 AM EDT --
A thank you and an explanation
I'd like to thank all those who have offered such thoughtful, encouraging, critical (in the best sense), cogent, deep and insightful commentary on my writing, my poetry . . .
more
|
|
|
Maura Alia Badji 's Popular Post Tags
|
