Osun's Offerings

I braid these waves into a still water crown/ each braid, boxed at the root, a singular wish/ wrapped together like a promise

PoetrySubmissionApril 13, 2020poetry, osun, oshun, goddess, goddess osun, black women, black women writers, read women, witches who write, zora satchell, writingComment

Albina

“my inamorato has tied these weights / to my ankles while he flounders in the foam.”

Goddess PoemsMarisa SilvaFebruary 13, 2020albina, goddess, goddess poem, goddess albina, poetry, marisa silva, marisa silva goddess poemsComment

Santa Muerte

“we are safe in the darkness of the new moon⁠— among peonies, plumeria, and violets"

Aradia

“…not everything / needs to be light and clean—sometimes / chaos is necessary.”

Xochiquetzal

“In the middle of winter, after a month of unraveling / and wanting to turn to ice, I prayed to Xochiquetzal; / I was willing to be a sacrifice—have my heart / carved out with her obsidian knife.”

Goddess Poems, PoetryMarisa SilvaJanuary 31, 2019xochiquetzal, goddesses, goddess xochiquetzal, goddess poem, goddess, goddess poemsComment

on the time my girlfriend decided to grow out her nails

poetry by Caroline Grand-Clement

PoetrySubmissionJanuary 14, 2019poetry, poem, women poetry, poems about women, goddess, wombComment

Tea with Hera During Venus Retrograde

“I wondered if there were ever times she forgot who she was; / if just knowing Zeus chased others— / made her find faults and want to carve them into her skin / so that each scar bellowed: Is this why I’m not enough?”

Persephone

“She dances around their bungalow / in onyx thigh-highs, a midnight lace romper / and a short burgundy Kimo decorated / with pearl colored lotus blossoms, / smoking a blunt with Lana Del Rey on the stereo.”