Beauty
Dr. Alfred W. Tatum
February 4. 2014
5:54pm
There's something sad about beauty.
It fades when an uninvited competitor appears.
Beauty is more robust when it is alone.
Among a crowd, not so much
unless there is an unrelenting eye that requires its presence to endure.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Let's Open the Floodgates
Welcome to the UIC Reading Clinic! It's time to open the floodgates as writers to define yourself, engage others, nurture resilience, and build capacity. We will write for others and ourselves during our time together. I wrote the following poem to capture what it means to be a floodgate writer.
Floodgate Writer
Alfred W. Tatum
February 1, 2012
5:38pm
Gushing, rushing waters
Is what my words feel like
The dam builders are in the way
I will use the 13 letters I know to tear down the walls
CAPITAL LETTERS, small letters, misspellings, no commas
two periods and an exclamation point
I don’t care
Pictures, sketches, scribbles
and an occasional stain from my snack
I have to write
to figure some stuff out, to scream,
to scratch my back, to touch my toes
to get that booger out of my nose
My stream of thoughts is pounding against my head
pencils – where are the
pencils!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excitement, fears, no cowardice tears
Open the floodgates and let me through
I feel another thought coming
signed
FW
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