“At some point, we come to recognize that adulthood is not about the freedom to do and undo as we please. Rather, adulthood is a call to realization.
Realizing that your decisions now can affect a hundred generations ahead of you. Realizing that your habits now can seep into your blood, and spread across your generational bloodline like wild fire.”
~ Apoetsbrain Original
We Now Know It All
An Apoetsbrain Original © 2012
When it comes to love, there is nothing new or surprising anymore.
We now know it all.
In short, we know too much to expect too much.
Gone are the days when we knew not what to anticipate. Continue reading We Now Know It All
Life Giving Forces
“If our sun is a life giving force, then the universe is surrounded by billions of life giving forces which we call stars.
Thus, if The One who made The Universe is the Maker of all life giving forces, why then do you remain hopeless ?”
~ Quotes by Apoetsbrain 2016 ©
Creator, Created
“I believe that at any point, I can create. At any moment I can liberate myself from myself. I am sure that in any situation I can evolve, I can gain ground, I can be outstanding.
It is simply that I have been created by such a mighty Creator. I have been touched and breathe upon by the Giver of Life.”
~ Apoetsbrain Quotes 2015 ©
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
Beautiful People
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
~ Elizabeth Kabler-Ross
The Wisdom I Seek
“I want the wisdom that surpasses natural understanding. Continue reading The Wisdom I Seek
Believer
“Sometimes I write not just to inspire others, but to inspire myself, and make myself the ultimate believer.”
~ Apoetsbrain Quotes 2015
Fly
Featured Poem written by Joan Toluwani Amos ©
To the one with whom I share so many things in common Continue reading Fly
Freedom
“I was young you see. It did not concern me that my neighbor’s father was organizing a riot, or that he was all prepared to start a bloody crisis.
All I truly cared about was the art form of play and the freedom of running around in my underwear. Just letting everything loose.
For I had been tempted many times to take off my clothes and join the local kids my age who daily were free of clothing, and restrictions. They were free to roam and run.”
~ Extract from ‘Advocate for Peace’ Tedx Talk by Sandra C. Obiora
Unseen Realities
“Now faith is a well-grounded assurance of that for which we hope, and a conviction of the reality of things which we do not see.”
~ Hebrews 11.1
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
Words
Featured Piece written by Derek Oluwamuyiwa Fodeke-Rodgers ©
If we talked…
If we talked and I spoke sweet words…
If we talked and my words cradled your face like they were hands…
If you heard everything you’ve ever wanted will you truly be happy?
Or would you mimic me?
Whisper the words you want to hear to your self.
Cradle your own face with your own words. Continue reading Words
Neither This, Nor That
Written by Alex Cue 2019. All Rights Reserved ©
On the tip of the tongue the ineffable song
From the silence of
Nine billion names that don’t describe it:
“Not this, not this.” Continue reading Neither This, Nor That
Colours
Sweet Africa
Poem Written by Krystal Orellano Weldon ‘Gypsy’ © 2019
We all come from the desert root of the African tree. Continue reading Sweet Africa
If You Need It, Get It
“If you need it, and you can get it, get it. If you simply want it but do not need it, think more about how useful that thing will be to your overall advancement as a person spiritually, physically, socially, psychologically, intellectually. Also, it is really okay to treat yourself from time to time when you have been successful. The trick however is to first achieve something so tangible for which you cannot help but reward yourself even a little bit.”
~ Financial advice by Sandra C. Obiora
Beside the Still Waters
“The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, He restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.”
~ Psalm 23
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,
Where Miracles Begin
“Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.”
~ Jim Rohn
Blue Whale
Featured Piece written by Chris Nash ©
Chris tries to use poetry to give a voice to the ones whose voices have been lost or taken away from them. He is currently working on a series of songs that species under severe threat of extinction might sing – if we had ears to listen to them. Blue Whale is one of them. Continue reading Blue Whale
Thinking Of You
Small Trouble
“A Small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway of life.”
~ Celia Luce
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!
The Cold and Timid Souls
“The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
Friendless in Her Underwear
An Apoetsbrain Original ©
It used to be that she had too many friends. Now it seems like she has no one to call her own. Continue reading Friendless in Her Underwear
