March 2012
79 posts
“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you have one foot on the...”
– Mary Manin Morrissey (via internal-acceptance-movement)
February 2012
42 posts
“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his...”
– Amy Lowell
Celebrating Women in Poetry
Touched by An Angel
by Maya Angelou
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from...
Youth Slam
Youth slam finals today. GDC will be in full force watching the new wordsmiths and soul decipherers (yea, I’m a poet). Check it out at Busboys and Poets 5th & K at 8pm. 10 dollas to enta. Oh. And the number 1 poet in the world Chris August will be your feature. Bwhahahahahahaha.
Stained.Glass.
sheedemilio:
I am sorry
to assume you gorgeous,
There I go again
Me and my lawless eyes
Marveling at the stained glass as whole
Unconcerned with the time
It took to quilt
Such a compile of beautiful shard together
I bet you’re used to
Rolling off the glare of men
So easily
None ever taking time
To touch your broken parts
Not a single lick given to a single wound
Too busy using their tongues
...
“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”
– Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own
“To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part
we...”
– Elizabeth Bibesco
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget...”
– Maya Angelou
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
GraffitiDC WILL BE BACK
March 21st 2012
at LIV Nightclub
With specials in honor of Women’s History Month.
Doing it up for all the ladies
Feature and details to be announced soon!!!
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Celebrating Women in Poetry
Promises Like Pie-Crust
by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false and never true: Let us hold the die uncast, Free to come as free to go: For I cannot know your past, And of mine what can you know? You, so warm, may once have been Warmer towards another one: I, so cold, may once have seen ...
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget...”
– Maya Angelou
the februarian: My mom's card just made me cry. →
thefebruarianandco:
I’ve never cried because of a card, but it’s so easy, in this cold world, to remember that people do love you exactly as you are & think you’re beautiful with all of your flaws & are inspired by you. I never thought in a million years that my growth and struggle could inspire her because in this…
Rasheed- Green Grass →
“Your eyes are children before the world teaches them gravity …
You...”
– Ya-Ya (@yayaearth) of GraffitiDC. Valentine’s Day Edition. 2.15 LIV
“I want to pollinate your skin, one cell at a time.
Grow a garden on your body,...”
– Drew Law (@DrewLawDMV) of GraffitiDC. Valentine’s Day Edition. 2.15
“She said I took the night off for you,
I told her to put it back on you look...”
– - PAGES (@pagesofle) of GraffitiDC 2.15 Valentine’s day Edition
GDC Twitter Favorite love line contest!!!
Send in YOUR Favorite/Best Love related Poetry line to @GraffitiDC on twitter of 140 characters or less, and we will pick 3 top finalists out of all entries.
Out of those three, the winner, will receive free ENTRANCE to GraffitiDC on 2.15 and A FUZE Package…
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Broken?
sheedemilio:
There was a time
When All the King’s horses
And all the king’s men
Knew not of what to make of me
and my Dumpty skin.
So they left me for broken,
But maybe I wasnt broken,
Maybe I was just beginning to hatch.
An Interview with Rasheed Copeland
What was your first slam experience like?
My first slam experience was very impromptu. My first time witnessing a slam was also my first time competing I’m one. It was against nearly everyone in the DC area who’s inspired me. I wound up getting a time penalty which knocked me from first place to no place. It didn’t even matter though, the feeling was unmatched.
What music that...
Drew Law- Poet and Rapper, Rapper and Poet →