“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.”
-Alexander Graham Bell
Category Archives: Thoughts
The Black Race
Poem by Sandra Chukwudumebi Obiora. Written 30/03/2020 © All rights reserved
I woke up feeling pained within me. Pained for the world we live in. Pained for her cries, but mostly pained for the black race. Continue reading The Black Race
Ego My Dear
Many are the mental struggles of mankind.
Daily we fight wars for and against our fragile egos. Continue reading Ego My Dear
A Few Suns
“Although some stars burn brighter than others, those other dimmer suns are not to be underestimated, for they burn too. They burn deep, they burn hot, they burn blue.”
~ By Sandra Chukwudumebi Obiora
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Salt & Ashes
Featured Piece by Tribes of Asaph
I feared no end.
A joyful will, I penned it down.
Years went by, faces changed.
The Sun remained the same. Continue reading Salt & Ashes
A Thousand MegaPixels
The following is a featured piece written by Bonsu Adjei-Arthur © All rights reserved
Arthur’s Introduction to this piece
I have looked at how my world has changed so much and how creative we have become and the extent of magic we can pull up with our creativity from our devices and everything. However, I also felt the need to talk about the downside of all these great things and how people don’t fit. I played the part of the architect generation and how I am happy to see the delusion, the reality and all the glamour of everything and how it seems to all play into my grand plan. As such, I titled it. A THOUSAND MEGAPIXELS. Enjoy. Continue reading A Thousand MegaPixels
The Right Skin
“Many years ago, I came into a profound realization that God brought me into this world to my parents with this gender, this skin, this hair, these eyes, this mind, this physique for a reason. Continue reading The Right Skin
Right Now
“I will not leave it for later. No. I will get up, and I will do it right now.”
~ Quotes by Apoetsbrain
Forgotten Lover
An Apoetsbrain Original 2011 ©
It appears you must always be by my side
For me to think more about you.
I know I may promise you now
That I will think about you everyday that you are away,
But we both know that is untrue. Continue reading Forgotten Lover
Another Love Story
Written by Dr. Olusola O. Bamisile (BB)
I have heard a lot of stories about love
Some amazing and some sad
Earnestly waiting for the day I will start compiling mine
A Letter to Myself
Poem Written by Krystal Orellano Weldon © 2020
She always came in second place to self love.
So I write her a letter to remind her;
She is a bad queen. Continue reading A Letter to Myself
Life in Details
“The essence of life is found in the details.
It is not always written in the expanse of outlandish displays of joy, affection, peace…
It is often there lurking in-between milliseconds. Life is often there offering itself to you in the minute details of each minute.”
~ Sandra Chukwudumebi Obiora
Existence
“Imagine your existence. Now imagine only ever existing.”
~ Sandra C. Obiora
Decades Come and Go
An Apoetsbrain Original © Written 31st December 2019
As I look out my window at bleak skies,
As I feel my way through the winter chill
As I think of glories past
As I dwell on things to come. Continue reading Decades Come and Go
Birthing Emeralds
An Apoetsbrain Original ©
One great man was mocked because of his lifelong agenda and effort to bring about peace in his community.
This man worked, strived, suffered and later died for peace.
He will be seen as a peace maker, the reconciler, the forgiver of many many wrongs.
He welcomed the concept of generosity, and begged that each man care for his neighbor. Continue reading Birthing Emeralds
Her Beauty
“Every lady has her own appeal…
Her beauty lies in the details.
Only those who have genuinely searched for it can find it.
Only those who have found it can try to comprehend the beauty that is her creation.Only those desperate to shelter it are deserving enough to grab onto the gold that holds the power to decorate one’s destiny.”
~ Sandra C. Obiora
When My Daughter Turns Five
Featured Poem written by Joan Toluwani Amos ©
When my first daughter turns five
‘Princess!’ I’ll call her Continue reading When My Daughter Turns Five
The Wisdom I Seek
“I want the wisdom that surpasses natural understanding. Continue reading The Wisdom I Seek
Fly
Featured Poem written by Joan Toluwani Amos ©
To the one with whom I share so many things in common Continue reading Fly
Dear Pink
Featured poem written by Cynthia Wulan ©
Dear
Darling, get up
Happiness awaits you Continue reading Dear Pink
Lost! Found!
Featured piece written by Black Tulip ©
Abuse & Manipulation
A Write-up by Humphery Adun 2018 ©
Humans are relational beings; and thus, we owe our existence to the ability to cultivate relationships that sustain our mental, physical, emotional and psychological tranquility. In every relationship, there are roles played by each correspondence, and these roles are defined by several factors; age, position, class, family, culture, spirituality, and tradition. This plays out in such a way that it creates dominant and subordinate(dependent) individuals in the relationships. Interestingly, as adults we play both roles of being both dependent and dominant at the same time, across different relationships, and thus there is a diffusion of a learned trait from a relationship circle to another one; and this goes on and on, creating a tangle of relationship traits. Continue reading Abuse & Manipulation
Language Lover
Featured Piece written by Meg Paulsen ©
I know only how to touch
without hands,
and therein lies the catch:
I’m holding a face I cannot speak to,
tracing a tongue that cannot receive
the gold I grow on my lips
nor taste you in the names I give it. Continue reading Language Lover
The World With No Sound
By Sandra C. Obiora ©. Written 6.3.13
Imagine with me for a second a world without sound.
The ocean without the lapping and flapping of the waves,
Thinking Of You
Utopic Dystopia
An Apoetsbrain Original. Written 28.12.2013 ©
This morning it felt as though I woke up into twilight.
At some point, twilight became dawn, and dawn was no where to be found.
Happy Birthday to Us!
Birthdays are a blessing.
For they point us towards realizing those ones we adore.
They make us stop in time to appreciate the wonders of being created for a purpose.
For at one moment God said let there be Sandy, and then there was.
Happy birthday to me! I am growing cooler! 😉
And Wow! it’s already been a year! Happy birthday to http://www.apoetsbrain.com as well. To all Apoetsbrain followers, contributors, and supporters, We love you! thanks for joining us on this fun filled journey of growth and purpose.
We are surely going places 😉 Continue reading Happy Birthday to Us!
Broken Winged Birds
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
—Langston Hughes
A Thousand MegaPixels
The following is a featured piece written by Bonsu Adjei-Arthur © All rights reserved
Arthur’s Introduction to this piece
I have looked at how my world has changed so much and how creative we have become and the extent of magic we can pull up with our creativity from our devices and everything. However, I also felt the need to talk about the downside of all these great things and how people don’t fit. I played the part of the architect generation and how I am happy to see the delusion, the reality and all the glamour of everything and how it seems to all play into my grand plan. As such, I titled it. A THOUSAND MEGAPIXELS. Enjoy. Continue reading A Thousand MegaPixels
I Refuse to Believe It
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Continue reading I Refuse to Believe It
