O, I say take care.
When longed for boats land harbor,
hardships, too, sail in.
— ava wood
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Turns Around The Sun
moment sublime, smile
compose dog day sunlit gaze
tick! time is tender
— ava wood
Bursting
Witness God’s green work
Entrust your seed to the earth
Bloom, bloom, blossom burst
— ava wood
Heavenly
Gave away my soul.
Giving back to get it back.
Given what I know.
— Ava Wood
No time today to pen a new poem, so I’ve recycled this haiku from Giving Back that I post here at least once a year.
Wishing you sweet sonnets, heavenly haiku, cozy couplets and such during National Poetry Writing Month!
Truth Be Told
Today during An August of Dreams and Mountaintops and amid Black Philanthropy Month celebrations, I’m sharing for the first time on film my original piece, Truth Be Told, which opens Giving Back. It also appears here on BlackGivesBack.com. Enjoy!
Re:versed
dazed by days of prose
april comes showering poems
state reversed by verse
April is National Poetry Month! I’ve always had a thing for poetry—reading it, hearing it, writing it and savoring it. So, I am forever grateful that Giving Back opened a new opportunity for me to evoke and express my poetical alter ego…my own “Sasha Fierce”…my bolder voice that I (sometimes) call Ava Wood.
Above is haiku she/I/we composed today for the occasion, with more like this and this and this to come. — VF
What I Know
Photography by Charles W. Thomas Jr.
Gave away my soul.
Giving back to get it back.
Given what I know.
— Ava Wood, featured in Giving Back: A Tribute to Generations of African American Philanthropists
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