Thursday, August 27, 2015

Reflections




















I look up at my wall and see wrapped in blackness
the essence of what's running through my veins
the voices of those calling me forward and onward and higher and deeper
the reflections of my soul

John Lewis
A Dancer
Corretta Scott King
Jackie Robinson
Maya Angelou
and Me

All staring back at me

While sitting in my bed and looking at my wall
greatness in still-life form stares back at me
beckoning me
reminding
encouraging me
strengthening me

I see me
surrounded by
fortified by
the same things that are in me:
Fortitude
Passion
Strength
Talent
Poetry

John
A Dancer
Corretta
Jackie
Maya

Me...

I see Me

Someone who wasn't made to fit into
the molds others create for her

Someone who's yet to see all she was destined to be

Someone who fits in among the posted frames of
John, a Dancer, Corretta, Jackie and Maya...

I see the inner me
I see the true me

I see me and the lives framed around me
and am encouraged
to stand
to dance
to continue
to preserve
to write
to BE

by Ashley Jataun Moore

Monday, August 24, 2015

The Growing Revelation


I look up from where I am sitting, and I see the picture collage above my desk.  The pictures remind me to embrace myself- all of me:  my strengths, imperfections, quirks, past, present, dreams...  The pictures urge me to love and embrace myself
and to BE GREAT
to go out and DO the greatness that is in me- that is in all of us.
Now is the time to accept ourselves, love ourselves and go out and share ourselves with others.
Today is the day to stop rejecting ourselves.
Today is the day to let go of the hurt, rejection, baggage we've acquired throughout life.
Today is the day to soar and triumph at being ourselves.
There is greatness in you.
Today is the day to lay down any shame, any weight that causes our heads to drop.
Embrace yourself:   the gift of your life, the gifts within...
God loves you unconditionally and created you with great purpose.
Today is the day to release and allow yourself to be and be great.