Poetry Archives — Page 5 of 52 — Tiffany Vakilian's Speak Fire Publishing

Bloom

by Tiffany Vakilian | Feb 13, 2021 | Poetry

Wrapped like a rose A cracked moon My ignorance hurts Glittering in the black Creating beautiful searches Wiley Duncanson Thomas Sherald “Powerful, beautiful, Black woman” We’ve always been here These petals Reflections Contra- to your diction...

There There, Heart

by Tiffany Vakilian | Feb 7, 2021 | Poetry

Hold to me heart Beat so hard Break the world Again Again Learning again Remembering again Crying to the tune of time And tell yourself again, “There there, now…” It’s a heavy thing But you shall beat And beating back chaos Your rhythm is...

This Free

by Tiffany Vakilian | Jan 16, 2021 | Poetry

When you are poured into. It’s okay to say this tastes good. It’s okay to be powerful. It’s okay to know it is so. Everything you did is something you will pay for. Know that. And keep going forward into the “this way” and...

Eruption

by Tiffany Vakilian | Jan 9, 2021 | Poetry

Underneath idiosyncracy i find something pure An unadulterated sign of life So whole it rages with joy Inside awkwardness i find, capitalized A hope of connection and forgiveness My own And in a world connected To me in my skin And in my spiritual growth There’s...

Prolificness

by Tiffany Vakilian | Jan 3, 2021 | Poetry

I have been sitting on this guilt. Feelin’ SO bad, y’all. Holding this guilt like a stock gain in my bank account. How about my algorithm with that guilt? It was impossible to speculate. I have to let go of it. I have been eating cancerous thoughts of...

Remember

by Tiffany Vakilian | Nov 21, 2020 | Poetry

When the blessing is work The pain Oh, the pain An exquisite hurt Like cold toes due to Christmastime Pulled curls For the perfect updo When the blessing is work It only seems nefarious A hit of peppermint Never without the pepper When the blessing is work It burns a...