pieces featured below are by amazing participants who came to my workshops <3
pieces featured below are by amazing participants who came to my workshops <3
by Becca Echeverria (from Nature is Medicine BIPOC somatic writing workshop. April 2024).
By Michelle (from April 2024, nature as a tool for healing class with Path with Art):
I am…
The song that whispers among the trees.
Stillness of falling snow in the hush of night.
Hidden jaguar relaxing in jungle tree.
Raging river shaping the land.
Child of mother nature.
Clouds moving into shapes of dreams.
Wing of Hawk soaring above.
The red flash of salmon swimming upstream.
A mountain rising above adversity.
Sometimes an Island in the sea.
The descendant of the first woman and man.
Sister to moon, sun, and stars.
Cousin of winged, finned, four and six legged creatures.
Freedom of birdsong.
A seed drifting, seeking home.
I am…
I am everything.
and nothing.
And everything in between.
I am life.
And death.
Finite and infinite.
Forever singing my song in a whisper among trees.
poem related to a prompt about breath:
my breath holds me steady
as my head spins round
she centers me now yet
I still feel prickling in
my chest; I breathe again.
haiku:
witnessing beauty
hearts receiving gentleness
freedom within me
These are both written by Okunyi who participated in my embodied love writing workshop for Black folks in February 2024. follow Okunyi on Instagram here: @janeite94
i choose
by sam the sentient
IG: @samthesentient
writing prompt from "cultivating presence" workshop, December 2nd, 2020.
poem written by jasmine hernandez
IG: @illumishawti
poem written by crystal
IG: @herbalbeautybabe