Still Blooming
regardless of devastation you see
i am here to remind you
that time is always available to those with
eyes washed clean and vision that stretches
like a telescope as long as i am present
there is more that hope there is possibility
for those who know life is sweeter than a
promise of coconut bread or bitter as a hot cup
of bile every moment of every day even in the rubble
that the earthquake left behind you can find verve
and no where is it more present that here where
artistic production out weighs the tons of food
we cultivate for the people are neither survivors
nor victims every time they choose breath every
time they dig deeper and transform their lives
they reflect my tenacity to live beyond knowing
and subsist in the realm of grace
The Renderings:
The Voices of Haiti: A Photo-Poetic Rendering
Who is Opal Palmer Adisa?
Opal Palmer Adisa, Ph. D, diverse and multi-genre, is an exceptional talent, nurtured on cane-sap and the oceanic breeze of the Caribbean. Writer of both poetry and prose, playwright/director, professor, gender specialist and cultural activist, Adisa has lectured and read her work throughout the United States, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Germany, Spain, France, England and Prague, and has performed in Italy and Bosnia. An award-winning poet and prose writer, Adisa has twenty-two titles to her credit, including the novel, It Begins With Tears (1997), that Rick Ayers proclaimed as one of the most motivational works for young adults.
