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Dedicated to Maya Angelou. The Rising Star by Jenean C Gilstrap
On May 28, 2014, the voice of Maya Angelou fell silent again. Her voice silent but her words not unspoken. Her words live on and shall never be quieted by absence or distance so long as there are...
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Sunday Poetry by Jenean Gilstrap: godly voices of galway
Galway Harbour 2007. Source: wikipedia. Author: Sulmac This past week there has been revelation after revelation in the media of the horrific finding of a mass grave of children at the Irish Catholic...
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Poetry Dedicated to Flight MH370. Song of the Choir by Jenean C. Gilstrap
Poetry Dedicated to Flight MH370. Song of the Choir by Jenean C. Gilstrap A little over three months ago, on March 8, 2014, 239 people [including the crew] boarded Flight MH370, a Boeing 777, destined...
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Poem Dedicated to Petya Stoykova Dubarova. Petya’s Poem in Three Parts. By...
Petya Stoykova Dubarova. Source: wikipedia. Petya Stoykova Dubarova, a well-recognised Bulgarian poet, born April 25, 1962, lived in the seaside town of Burgas. On December 4, 1979, at the age of 17,...
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Sunday Poetry by Jenean C. Gilstrap. What’s in a Name
Black-backed jackal. Source: wikipedia. Author: Yathin S Krishnappa For months, Nigeria has been under seige by a militant extremist group who prey upon the elderly and the young in their zealous...
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Sunday Poetry by Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: The Poem and the Prayer
Pillar stone, Gallarus Oratory, County Kerry, Ireland Upon the discovery of the skeletal remains of nearly 800 children in the septic system of an Irish Catholic home for unwed mothers run the the...
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Sunday Poetry by Jenean C. Gilstrap: o little child, o holy child
Incest in the United States is a staggeringly all too frequent crime involving one in every four young girls and one in every five boys, according to the statistics of one major reporting journal. It...
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Sunday Poetry by Jenean C. Gilstrap: Death on Wing
A human skull, widely used as a symbol of death. Source: flickr. Author: Kessiye Death on Wing…garish images of slain children and twisted wreckage of homes assault our senses daily – children playing...
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Sunday Poetry with Jenean C. Gilstrap: my name is huda
Child Holding a Dove Pablo Picasso – 1901 We Are All in One… the concept is so simple and is the basic tenet of organized religion since the beginning of time - love thy neighbor as thyself and do unto...
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Sunday Poetry with Jenean C. Gilstrap: The Stained Heart
Sunday Poetry with Jenean C. Gilstrap: The Stained Heart Eilean Donan Castle. Source: wikipedia. Author:: Diliff the stained heart she stands resurrected like the phoenix from ashes to stone neither...
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Poetry by Jenean C. Gilstrap: knock, knock
Poetry by Jenean C. Gilstrap: knock, knock Front door of a house with typical door furniture: a letter box, door knocker, a latch and two locks. Source: flickr. Author: Dave&Lynne Slater knock...
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Sunday Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap: linoleum dreams
Sunday Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap: linoleum dreams Sunday Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap: linoleum dreams. Copyright of the image: Jenean C. Gilstrap linoleum dreams...
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Sunday Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: porcelain love
Sunday Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: porcelain love Soft-paste porcelain Swan tureen, 1752-6, Chelsea.. Source: wikipedia. Author: Simon Speed porcelain love when i left that day...
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Sunday Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: ride the wild dolphin
Sunday Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: ride the wild dolphin The Foam Sprite. Herbert James Draper (1895). Painting. Oil on canvas ride the wild dolphin ride the wild dolphin...
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Sunday Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: the pretty little...
Sunday Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: the pretty little girl and the crowing hen Sunday Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: the pretty little girl and the crowing...
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Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap: the mourning
Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap: the mourning Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap: the mourning the mourning how my heart grieves since you have taken leave it cries and weeps and...
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Sunday Poetry by Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap: a bowl of oranges
Sunday Poetry by Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap: a bowl of oranges Naranjas y limones by Julio Romero de Torres a bowl of oranges oh so you want my sweet nothin’s whispered in your ear in the midnight...
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Sunday Poetry with Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: night arms
Sunday Poetry with Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: night arms Sunday Poetry with Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: night arms night arms i listen to the night seep in wishin’ your arms were ‘round me again...
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Sunday Pooetry with Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: stormy seas
Sunday Pooetry with Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: stormy seas A wave hitting a breakwater in the Gulf of Santa Catalina. Source: wikipedia. stormy seas they’s a storm brewin’ down in my heart i’ve known...
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Sunday Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: Winter Love
Sunday Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: Winter Love Alphonse Mucha, Four Seasons 1897 Winter winter love… you come in the night draped in your white innocence like a new lover’s...
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