Dare to Love Yourself on National Selfie Day
by Aberjhani
Title
Dare to Love Yourself on National Selfie Day
Artist
Aberjhani
Medium
Mixed Media - Mixed Media Digital Art
Description
Loving yourself isn't just about the photographs we post to our social media profiles to show the world we know how to have fun. It's mostly about recognizing where we fit in the larger scheme and how our lives contribute meaning and value to the world. This the poem, published in The River of Winged Dreams, from which the dare-to-love-yourself quote is taken:
Angel of Healing: for the Living, the Dying, and the Praying
1.
As you bury flesh––
honor spirit, savor hope,
cherish memory.
Consider heaven
as a world-weary stranger
asleep in your heart.
Quote words that affirm
all men and women are your
brothers and sisters.
Pull the child away
from feeding at the mule’s tail.
Give the baby food.
2.
Compassion crowns the soul with its true st victory.
Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
Wisdom applied internally corrects ignorance lived externally.
3.
Dare to love yourself
as if you were a rainbow
with gold at both ends.
Write a soft poem
to one you called bitch, shit head,
nigger, fag, white trash.
Live certain days dressed
in your lover’s smiling soul
while she, he, wears yours.
Imagine your mind
wings intent on expanding
and watch your joy fly.
Aberjhani
© 8/23/2006
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May 15th, 2017
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Comments (7)
Aberjhani's Official Postered Chromatic Poetics
Thank you very much Angeles. I greatly appreciate your kind words.
Angeles M Pomata
Wonderful message, colors, composition, and texture in this awesome piece, Aberjhani!! L/F
Geraldine Scull
Beautiful message and composition Aberjhani ! l/f
Aberjhani replied:
Thank you Geraldine. The issue of suicide has not diminished and a major part of the cause seems to be certain people's belief their lives have no intrinsic value. My hope with this artwork and the poem that inspired it is help change that belief.
VIVA Anderson
Back.....to drink the wisdom of every stanza in Angel of Healing.......this one, today: "Live certain days dressed in your lover’s smiling soul while she, he, wears yours. "
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