Poetry Archives — Page 14 of 52 — Tiffany Vakilian's Speak Fire Publishing

Wait, What? A Poem of Laughing, Unexpectedly

by Tiffany Vakilian | Apr 27, 2019 | Poetry, Work

It’s no big deal–a hater’s worst nightmare, and the second call to speak. It is symbolic, and a response to the statement I made from the San Diego Writers Festival Panel. And I’m giggling at how God reminds me of things. If you knew the full...

First Steps

by Tiffany Vakilian | Apr 20, 2019 | Poetry

I looked out to the crowd, hopeful yet weighed down by the love of the folk in the room First steps Some people didn’t even know, slow-ful but they’ll catch up to the love I’m finally showing MYself First steps It’s attainable the dream go full...

I am Not

by Tiffany Vakilian | Apr 6, 2019 | Poetry

If it isn’t mine I am not taking it Even when they want me to I am not Told me to ‘fit in’ And tried to make me, what? Something less in the face of I am not Late bloomers, rise up Bw happy to fly now You aren’t alone! I am not My burnt sienna...

AWWYP Author Spotlight- Tiffany Vakilian!

by Tiffany Vakilian | Mar 30, 2019 | Poetry, Work

I published Ugly Drawers, Pretty Panties, my first book of poetry, as an expression of narrative medicine, autoethnography, and catharsis. Doing so was both humbling and freeing. A Word With You Press, my publisher, interviewed me as part of an author spotlight. You...

Dead Weights

by Tiffany Vakilian | Mar 16, 2019 | Poetry

Let us pretend for just a moment that the dead weights we have carried so needlessly and so unnecessarily for so long are gone. Let us pretend that instead that the muscles of our bodies are properly aligned properly in motion and we feel true emotion as if we were...

I Feel You

by Tiffany Vakilian | Mar 9, 2019 | Poetry

I feel you, art. I feel you moving through my heart in between my breath and giving no quarter. It hurts, and it sings, and it makes me give up sleep and cry for the beauty of it all. I feel you, pushing me so far outside my comfort zone, I forget where home is. Let...