Hi everyone,
Welcome to 365 Days of Poetry & Honesty. I hope this past week has been good to you. It's the first week of February and I have two love poems to begin and end the newsletter <3
This week is not as colourful but regardless, I hope you enjoy the words!
Monday
Considering that two weeks into January I was already seeing Valentine’s Day promotions, it makes sense that I’d start February’s newsletter with a little love poem.
Tuesday
That feeling of being alien I can never seem to shake. And although I’m learning to lean into it, there are moments where I find myself wishing I could be somebody else for a day. I wouldn't though. I can say that with certainty and it feels nice :)
Wednesday
Not so sure about the title but it's not written in stone. I have this very strong fear that when it comes to love, romantic love in particular, I’ll be consumed and I’ll be absolutely okay with it because it makes the other person happy.
Thursday
I’ve been thinking about resilience, my own in particular. That's what this poem speaks to, that cyclical rising out of the darkness.
Friday
A bit dramatic.
Saturday
In one of my classes we were discussing Walter Benjamin’s essay on Divine Violence, and if I’m being honest I’m still having some difficulty wrapping my head around its content. That being said, the idea of 'divine violence’ kind of stuck with me. In this article I read (https://notevenpast.org/walter-benjamin-on-divine-violence/), it’s defined as ““law-destroying.” It is justice intervening against legal and mythic violence in favor of the sacredness of the human…” and if you read on from that quote, he explains how this “sacredness” is salient. And although the article kind of disagrees, I would argue it's also “power-making violence”; that kind of collective force accruing, the remnants of that kind of disturbance, I can't imagine a world where people would not then want to make the world as they envisioned. Anyways, here's the poem!
Sunday
Ending the newsletter with another love poem, a testament to loving someone when you're depressed.
Thank you for reading! I hope this week is full of love and lots of tenderness.
With Love,
Oyinda