by Gerri Ravyn Stanfield | Feb 9, 2016 | Revolution of the Spirit, Revolutionary Poems, Uncategorized |
for those times when you slap against a stone wall inside yourself and crawl between the sheets to weep: the wise woman tells you to sing your pain to the ocean and burn wood in the sand anoint yourself with cedar oil and your grandmother’s name wait and change...
by Gerri Ravyn Stanfield | Oct 2, 2015 | Revolution of the Spirit, Revolutionary Poems, social justice, Uncategorized |
{Author’s note: I wrote this a year ago before all the 2015 shootings. Unfortunately not much has changed.} WARNING: This blog contains opinions about recent school shootings…perhaps we disagree or we find solidarity. We call this freedom of the press. Maybe...
by Gerri Ravyn Stanfield | Aug 24, 2015 | Revolution of the Spirit, Revolutionary Poems, Uncategorized |
When you have fallen to the bottom of your world: Yes you can lie facedown, forehead pressed to the hardwood floor knowing that you have no control over what happens next, keep pressing the play next episode button on Netflix, eat potato chips and stare vacantly,...
by Gerri Ravyn Stanfield | Nov 25, 2014 | Revolution of the Spirit, Revolutionary Poems, social justice, Uncategorized |
For Michael Brown and Ferguson There is a dark ragesong rising in the streets. When they cut him open to see how he died, they recorded that his brown arms were uplifted towards heaven an open handed fearprayer more than one hundred feet away from the gunman, one more...
by Gerri Ravyn Stanfield | Jun 13, 2014 | social justice |
(Warning: this blog contains opinions about recent school shootings…perhaps we disagree or we find solidarity. We call this freedom of the press.) Maybe you think of your adolescent awakening with fondness or maybe you are grateful to have left that hellish hormonal...