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Warsan vs Melancholy
by Warsan Shire
These poems come in audio form, but after listening to Warsan Shire recite them aloud, I had to go onto Google and find hard copies to really sit down and grasp what she was saying.
My favorite poems were:
-"for women who are difficult to love (the affirmation)" [of course 🤓]: I like how this poem speaks to the strength of being "untamable." It's a given that you won't be loved by everyone, but the beauty lies in knowing that that's okay and being able to pick yourself up and collect your love to move on and find someone who will love you for what you're being to the table. This is a singular theme that's woven throughout Shire's audio collection and that she seems to wrestle with in her other selections as well.
-"questions for the woman I was last night -(the honest conversation):" This poem reminded me of a sermon I heard at Imagining the Body of Christ church in Dallas, TX when I visited my best friend earlier this month. There, the preacher asked us the pivotal question of "who dropped us?" in reference to unpacking the misfortune of Ziba in 2 Samuel 9: 1-13/5 where he had us exploring the idea that we all have been hurt in the past and this hurt can often times take root and damn us to stand in one place clutching onto our pain without us even knowing that we're standing still until we run up on someone who does us so much harm that the pain demands that we stop and ask ourselves, "how did I get like this and WHY am I allowing myself to be treated this way?" Shire takes this concepts and cuts down to the soul of her reader and holds up a mirror forcing you to ask yourself some hard questions about what you're allowing to happen to you.
-"the unbearable weight of staying - (the end of the relationship):" This poem has my absolute favorite lines from the collection, which is, "I think of lovers as trees, growing to and from one another, searching for the same light....This is all I know how to do, carry loss around until I begin to resemble every bad memory, every terrible fear, every nightmare anyone has ever had." #Breathtaking
Those are just a few, but I definitely recommend this collection to anyone who wants to hear some good spoken word poetry. Here is the link to purchase the collection:
Warsan Shire's Bandcamp website
My favorite poems were:
-"for women who are difficult to love (the affirmation)" [of course 🤓]: I like how this poem speaks to the strength of being "untamable." It's a given that you won't be loved by everyone, but the beauty lies in knowing that that's okay and being able to pick yourself up and collect your love to move on and find someone who will love you for what you're being to the table. This is a singular theme that's woven throughout Shire's audio collection and that she seems to wrestle with in her other selections as well.
-"questions for the woman I was last night -(the honest conversation):" This poem reminded me of a sermon I heard at Imagining the Body of Christ church in Dallas, TX when I visited my best friend earlier this month. There, the preacher asked us the pivotal question of "who dropped us?" in reference to unpacking the misfortune of Ziba in 2 Samuel 9: 1-13/5 where he had us exploring the idea that we all have been hurt in the past and this hurt can often times take root and damn us to stand in one place clutching onto our pain without us even knowing that we're standing still until we run up on someone who does us so much harm that the pain demands that we stop and ask ourselves, "how did I get like this and WHY am I allowing myself to be treated this way?" Shire takes this concepts and cuts down to the soul of her reader and holds up a mirror forcing you to ask yourself some hard questions about what you're allowing to happen to you.
-"the unbearable weight of staying - (the end of the relationship):" This poem has my absolute favorite lines from the collection, which is, "I think of lovers as trees, growing to and from one another, searching for the same light....This is all I know how to do, carry loss around until I begin to resemble every bad memory, every terrible fear, every nightmare anyone has ever had." #Breathtaking
Those are just a few, but I definitely recommend this collection to anyone who wants to hear some good spoken word poetry. Here is the link to purchase the collection:
Warsan Shire's Bandcamp website