As a poet, I have a way of interpreting my emotions and when I am experiencing positive energy and emotions of happiness, I experience the moment as a poem.  Dynamics such as the location, company, and music are all contributing factors to the poetic experience.  From the experience, I am able to create a language that I understand based on my experiences. Day by day, I am learning to live my life to the fullest, and live freely. Everyone has that inner capability of just letting go and embracing inner peace. The poem below was inspired while I was watching Prince on TV at the Super Bowl. In my opinion, as long as there is a need to write politically responsible and socially conscious poems, there is a need to write intimate, personal, fun, and celebratory poems.  It is about creating a poetic balance. There are no limitations to writing poetry… it is about expressing yourself and being free.

Prince and Queens

we are homegirls at halftime

pouring rain the singer in do rag in sky blue suit the singer in a tangerine shirt raindrops sequin lens and sparkle screen his face wallpapered girlhoods

oooohhh the do rag been thrown

perm rising up on him a poem

in heels walking tight ass

high notes pouring rain the singer guitar player does the damn thing this is what life feels like up against a wall and all over the scale of possible women can love each other through hell through raspberry smeared lip gloss smacked smart mouths tender headed braided hard rocks

we are not the same woman but the same kind and thank god we don't love the same man but the same kind

the singer so pretty and mimi

talking about hennessey honey

glazed ham we're eating popeye's wings jay-z sells Budweiser we burn our hearts fierce and wounded in reflective injuries

sunday night in harlem game on

and the singer is singing just for us

we move to his voice and somewhere in our hearts doves are crying

-Suheir Hammad