My name is Isis. May my very existence be an act of rebellion. Tumblr (3.0; @moderndaygoddess)http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/61cb8140e5c307e530b561160e302e24/tumblr_mgwxv1zqf91rjmqt6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://aurorium.tumblr.com/post/40994870395/poems-for-50-in-a-small-bookstore-in-san" target="_blank">aurorium</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Poems for $.50 in a small bookstore in San Francisco </p> </blockquote>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41334637020http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41334637020Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:49:43 -0500“<p>Residue</p> <p>i give myself five days to forget you.</p> <p>on the first day i rust.</p> <p>on the second i wilt.</p> <p>on the third day i sit with friends but i think about your tongue.</p> <p>i clean my room on the fourth day. i clean my body on the fourth day.</p> <p>i try to replace your scent on the fourth day.</p> <p>the fifth day, i adorn myself like the mouth of an inmate.</p> <p>a wedding singer dressed in borrowed gold.</p> <p>the midas of cheap metal.</p> <p>tinsel in the middle of summer.</p> <p>crevice glitter, two days after the party.</p> <p>i glow the way unwanted things do,</p> <p>a neon sign that reads;</p> <p>come, i still taste like someone else’s mouth.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em>Warsan Shire</em>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41332616466http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41332616466Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:25:52 -0500Warsan shirepoempoetryresidue<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mclgi5wFi11rsoskjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41332316210http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41332316210Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:22:22 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/356fa2013af8083809c78f2e3086f4e9/tumblr_mg2h8iZ0i71qa5ljoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41332290535http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41332290535Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:22:04 -0500<p>Yes, yes you will. Just a heads up you will probably lose sleep, get distracted at work, become obsessed with strangers, get cramps from pressing refresh, discover all the friends you ever needed are online, ignore real life and become a hermit. Enjoy. :)</p>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41332148734http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41332148734Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:20:27 -0500<p>:) Thanks, darling. I wish I kept up with this thing more.</p>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41331213158http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41331213158Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:09:42 -0500“You move me. Like the first time I heard Billie’s blues. Or witnessed womanly blood between my childlike thighs. And though I was too young to understand the origin of either, I knew I’d never be the same.”<br/><br/> - <em>Isis</em>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41329932618http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41329932618Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:55:13 -0500poembillie holidaybloodquoteherlovemusethoughtsblues<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e9fb25f558adab6d659232b128c31993/tumblr_mh3t86i1oe1qi4krqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My muse. </p>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41317053787http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41317053787Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:26:00 -0500lesbianslovemusepoetrylucky“Now that he is safely dead…<br/> Now that he is safely dead <br/> Let us praise him <br/> build monuments to his glory <br/> sing hosannas to his name. <br/> Dead men make <br/> such convenient heroes: They <br/> cannot rise <br/> to challenge the images <br/> we would fashion from their lives. <br/> And besides, <br/> it is easier to build monuments <br/> than to make a better world.”<br/><br/> - <em>Carl Wendell Hines</em>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41113893047http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41113893047Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:23:49 -0500mlkmartin luther kind jr.obamapoetpoem<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/96d_CzrfxsM?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Cornel West explains why it bothers his that President Obama will be taking his oath with Dr. King’s Bible</p>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41112595348http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41112595348Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:06:59 -0500cornel westmlkbiblemartin luther kingobamaoathspeech<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me4mtirfm71rjqtn1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41111692423http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41111692423Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:55:25 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3srpxUBEw1qiugzxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41111573143http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/41111573143Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:53:49 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdchrqOzf91qi4krqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Oh wynwood…</p>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/35518084789http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/35518084789Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:43:02 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9mb7l5vvz1qi4krqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dat Azz (Taken with <a href="http://instagram.com" target="_blank">Instagram</a>)</p>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/30581443208http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/30581443208Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:42:57 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9mb21e0aV1qi4krqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taken with <a href="http://instagram.com" target="_blank">Instagram</a></p>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/30581353447http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/30581353447Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:39:36 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9mb1rV3Kw1qi4krqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Money shot. Also my Christmas postcard this year. (Taken with <a href="http://instagram.com" target="_blank">Instagram</a>)</p>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/30581349583http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/30581349583Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:39:27 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9maw7NrEb1qi4krqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taken with <a href="http://instagram.com" target="_blank">Instagram</a></p>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/30581263800http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/30581263800Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:36:07 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ma9cXKQi1qi4krqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Graffiti Narnia (Taken with <a href="http://instagram.com" target="_blank">Instagram</a>)</p>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/30580912677http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/30580912677Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:22:24 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ma6k9Xen1qi4krqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taken with <a href="http://instagram.com" target="_blank">Instagram</a></p>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/30580870763http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/30580870763Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:20:44 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ma23bgpU1qi4krqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taken with <a href="http://instagram.com" target="_blank">Instagram</a></p>http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/30580802886http://moderndaygoddess.tumblr.com/post/30580802886Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:18:03 -0400