Category / holidays

by Lexine

Rainbows And Votes

How I’m celebrating this holiday: by admiring the sights of rainbows from my studio apartment and getting out to vote! The weather here still isn’t pretty, but I’ll always enjoy a rainbow sighting (the one pretty thing to come from this icky rain). And my state’s Primary Election Day is in two weeks. If you haven’t yet voted in your state’s primaries, get out and vote! These days, all elections matter!

by Lexine

Quote Of The Moment (12.31.23)

Yup. Although I’ll be more focused on writing my latest work-in-progress instead of the NYE festivities on TV tonight. A book can’t write itself, you know!
Happy New Years to you all! 🥳🍾

by Lexine

A Halloween Stunner

I’m always intrigued over what my favorite celebs will do for Halloween. So far, Christina’s Cher had me gagged, Mariah’s Jessica Rabbit served, and I’m wondering if/what thee Kylie will dress up this year.

Then I saw this clip…

…and I don’t know if it can be topped. I can be a sucker for anything Showgirls-related. And I didn’t know that was Ariana Grande playing Nomi Malone; she nailed it!

Happy Halloween, everyone!

by Lexine

These Cool Poems – “IWD Edition”

Happy (almost belated) International Women’s Day! I may be late in this (Wednesdays are usually my Mondays in terms of work week, and let’s just say I had a helluva busy “Monday”), but celebrating strong, fearless, and creative women is not limited to one day in my book. In honor of this special day, two poems from two of my idols!

and…

Poems courtesy of PoetryFoundation.org 
ETA: since copying and pasting the poems above word-by-word from the linked site didn’t display properly for me, I chose to use images of the poems instead.
by Lexine

These Cool Poems – MLK Day Edition

Today is MLK Day, and while I could’ve done another Quote Of The Moment/Message Of The Day post, I was more intrigued by these two poems that honor the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.

“Won’t You Celebrate With Me” – Lucille Clifton

won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.

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“In Memoriam: Martin Luther King Jr.” – June Jordan

I
honey people murder mercy U.S.A.
the milkland turn to monsters teach
to kill to violate pull down destroy
the weakly freedom growing fruit
from being born
America
tomorrow yesterday rip rape
exacerbate despoil disfigure
crazy running threat the
deadly thrall
appall belief dispel
the wildlife burn the breast
the onward tongue
the outward hand
deform the normal rainy
riot sunshine shelter wreck
of darkness derogate
delimit blank
explode deprive
assassinate and batten up
like bullets fatten up
the raving greed
reactivate a springtime
terrorizing
death by men by more
than you or I can
STOP
       II
They sleep who know a regulated place
or pulse or tide or changing sky
according to some universal
stage direction obvious
like shorewashed shells
we share an afternoon of mourning
in between no next predictable
except for wild reversal hearse rehearsal
bleach the blacklong lunging
ritual of fright insanity and more
deplorable abortion
more and
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