Tag Archives: Depression

In The Night of My Calling

Posted on October 29, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

“Monochrome Girl” by Dale Innis on Midjourney AI In The Night of My Calling In the night of my calling. I only pretended to be awake. Something deep inside me that has never awakened kept holding me down at the … Continue reading →

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Bluest Blues

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

Please Click Play to hear me recite the poem to the music that inspired it: “Bluest Blues” by Dirty Dom (Dan Sverdlin… a dear friend from the past.)                                              “Blue” by Dale Innis on Midjourney Bluest Blues Time and time … Continue reading →

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Strange Dream

Posted on November 15, 2022 by Karima Hoisan

Please click play to listen to my spoken word version, recited to David Darling’s “Sweet River” Strange Dream It was a crazy day on the river of my morning dreams fluffed up cumulus clouds, bouncing on a peach colored sky. … Continue reading →

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Arbor of Sour Grapes

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Karima Hoisan

Please click play to hear me recite the poem. Desire is just one room in a mansion and it can end in the bedroom or in a luxurious waiting room, years, waiting, hoping, dreaming, or in tears. Its face changes … Continue reading →

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Back To The Light

Posted on December 7, 2021 by Karima Hoisan

Slipping into the micro-shrooms I slide into my poetry. A new poem, unexpectedly comes after coffee and after breakfast. I always feel the urge to write a poem, any poem, every poem, like a warning Like running to the bathroom, … Continue reading →

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Way Too Bright…

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Karima Hoisan

Everyone tells me to stand up on my feet…My pale face and dark cloud spaceis bringing them down to blueOops!…did I get some on you?Well…I’m working on it..I’m coming back from the deadI’m pulling it togetherI’m stapling my headI can’t … Continue reading →

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Big-Holed Sieve

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Karima Hoisan

Big-Holed-Sieve For O Each day passes right through without touching me, Big-holed sieve … nothing of any value stays; An entire starry evening, goes straight down the drain. What is the purpose of pouring, Into the porous leftover of my … Continue reading →

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Cut To Fade

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Karima Hoisan

Cut To Fade <<*>> Propping my head in the window, the afternoon light dips and sways, my hands caress my prayer scarf, my chin is tied and trussed; Now it’s steady as my gaze.      A black gauze hood flaps … Continue reading →

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Statue in the Entryway

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Karima Hoisan

I don’t remember the exact moment I stopped living I mean I was still breathing…just not really alive. My spinal chord took over for my brain so I could still walk, eat, swallow blink. My color was good, my blood … Continue reading →

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Outside

Posted on November 24, 2017 by Karima Hoisan

Outside Somehow, while the world was turning I got left on the outside..standing still. Everything seemed normal and yet I sensed that I was missing. Things flashed by me, while saxophones wailed like sirens and yet, I was frozen, in … Continue reading →

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