Praying for promises
So much power rest between your hands and your heart…
This poem was birthed in 2006. Recollections of a woman in waiting, praying for promises, protection, perseverance.
She gave me her story. Asked me to look up and around and take note of how women pray over their loved ones. How we hope with so much might to manifest ‘family’ by our own definitions. How we learn to love through letting go — and how, for some, the release is what we have left to hold most sacred.
🎥: Director A. Martin
🎭: The Empress
Ironing Pillowcases
‘Ironing Pillowcases’ is the second poem in the Making Sanctuary series.
Sometimes love requires a little cleansing magic, and let’s be real… No one cleans better than a woman intent on moving on.
‘Ironing Pillowcases’ gets honest about how we conjure love with our bare hands.
Spells, prayers, backwood remedies, superstitions… channeling all of it to make a house a home, and a love everlasting.
🎥: Director A. Martin
🎭: The Empress
Poem About My Daughter One Day Loving a Broken Man
For Black mothers trying to be lovers, while also being an example of love on display for their daughters, this poem asks desperate questions and answers without clarity…
• What have you had to learn or unlearn about love?
• What brokenness have you had to heal?
• Where did the break occur? Was it your own or have you been carrying the brokenness of mothers who came before you?
• How are you passing wise love on to your daughters? Or what do you hope to teach young girls in your life about love…
🎥: Director A. Martin
🎭: The Empress