Mani

The Night Before It was always the girl that wore tight bright dresses, in hues of yellows and oranges, that reflected underneath dance floors and discos, that left streaming trails and whiffs of mesmerizing essence and sparkles behind in her wake. That girl, heated in dance and dripping in desire, smooth and cunning as a jaguar and as exotic as an uncharted jungle terrain, who was never without flowers and ornate tokens of anything precious and of value, was the same girl that was left alone to scrub the remnants of wine stains and smeared lipstick from the night before. -Excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle

Excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle✨️📖 p.s.- Happy 8/8 day!🦁🔥✨️🪄
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Love in the Spaces "What is love within a space? Does it fill every curve, every nook and crevice? Can it smooth over warped rough edges? Is it a container for deep knowingness? Or is love just allowing and in that space, existence? Acceptance. Respect. Understanding. No refiltering. No excavation. Just allowing the moments passing. Can you ever really know all of someone? Should we? Could the deep well that exists within all of us, simply be, the bubbled illusion that love should burst through? Spaces were made to be filled. I do not think love was meant to be in the same way. Maybe love is always waiting for bravery. For the one who does not desire its captivity. Just a signature left of its essence. Just a witness of its glory." -Poem by Writings by Mani

What does space mean to you? How does love fill up that space? Questions that are being pondered in my new poem below. Happy August, everyone🔥💖✨️🔑
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A Lover's Eyes "Love is the faceless flower, that surrounds the dirt in such a way, that the dirt doesn't think of itself as dirt, but as a rich emollient and the weeds, don't think of themselves as weeds, but as a mighty rainforest and the water as more than just common H20, but as the magical elixir that heals, restores, and transforms" -Excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle

For my lover girls and guys, here is a poem to help open and awaken your heart chakra❤️‍🔥 An excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle💖🙏🏾✨️🌸
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You are the economy. You are the asset. You are the power. Just in case you forgot or when the world/this matrix is trying to tell you otherwise. Everything you are is more than enough. Always have been and always will be💗

"The heart is the window to all things. It sees, feels, breathes, and captures in real physiological and psychological results, the world as we experience it. So really in the end, following your heart is the key that unlocks the truth of the world." -Excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle

An excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle: a.co/d/7sCwsxa
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"Because you see with different eyes, you are chosen. And despite all reasons that say otherwise, to be chosen is to be luck" -Excerpt from Galaxies in Our Backyard by Imani Hassan available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle

An excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle: a.co/d/7sCwsxa
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✨️Happy Moonday, Lovers!✨️
🧵Last week, we paused. We celebrated with family, reflected in stillness, and rooted deeper into who we’re becoming and where we’re headed. That meant no new Playlist Poetry drop, and instead, a moment to integrate⬇️ #PlaylistPoetry #WritingsbyMani

So many shifts, upgrades (happy post-Summer Solstice ☀️), & chaotic world happenings! 🫠 First week we healed, last week we danced & found our joy, & so this week, it only made sense to focus on tuning into our energy & grounding into "peace as revolution." More ⬇️
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Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

The way I just inhaled my burrito and taco salad is shameful😭 didn't even get the chance to take a picture for a new #VegansEat post🫣😳

Playlist in Poetry Week 2

📆This week's theme: Joy in Movement

🎧Playlist: 🌸Joy in Bloom🌸

✈️🌍Where:🔗🌳 in bio. Separate links for Tidal, Spotify, & Youtube

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Click my 🔗🌳 in my bio for Tidal, Spotify, and YouTube playlists.

Theme: Healing in Isolation

Playlist: 🥀When Healing Feels Lonely

🙏🏾Thank you for listening. Thank you for choosing yourself. Thank you for tapping in.

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Introducing Playlist Poetry: Curated sounds + soul-stirring words for the hidden well within you.
🗓 Theme: Healing in Isolation
🎧 When Healing Feels Lonely
🌿 For the days that feel too heavy, let this hold you.
🧠Prompt in the post ⬇️
PlaylistPoetry: 🔗 in bio
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The Same Thing The way a vow on the happiest of days can be broken, the way a lover's heart can turn cold, the way a once-held warm hand can be unmissed, the way a blissful word can stay on lingered lips, is the same way love can transform wilted hearts and ment the broken promises of what happened before.

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Am I a Winner? Have we won? If so, what is the prize?

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A Woman's Equation "Hope is an inner knowing. An acknowledgment that the light of life will bless you with a kiss at the end of a cataclysmic journey. Being a woman in this experienced oppression is like being the walking and breathing embodiment of that. Hope. It has never been materialized, created, or nurtured to greatness when life is easy. No, it can only thrive when born in the throes of darkness. And chaos. And destruction. That's where it shines the brightest. And that's where she stands and remains, unassailable. She is rising above the turmoil. Rooted firm in the trust that a mere flame flickering and dancing in small hands will carry you on from the ashes to your glory. Hope is the promise we make to ourselves that despite the encroaching despondency in knowing that, this world was not made for women, and that women were not made for this world, there is still faith. Despite the game of life seeking to devour the feminine essence whole and unrelentingly. Aside from the fact that this matrix is dark. Chaotic. Messy. Confusing. Imbalanced. It feels as if the sands of time have made it too late for us all. Out of time to trek down forgotten stories and cultures of the Ones Before Us. Nowhere to go when we've lost our connections to each other and ourselves. All unity and respect will continue to be lost and inexorable in our current state. But this world has women. For me, there will always be hope."

A Woman's Equation. Always have hope. Never give into despondency. No matter what. A poem to uplift you in your darkest moments.

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As a former a drug addict…I hate how yall treat addicts. This houseless person telling me multiple times that he wont use the bread I gave him for drugs. Idc if he was, wasn’t gonna stop me from giving it to em. But the way he thought he had to convince me he wasnt one to “keep” the bread…angering

Red and yellow striped tulip in dappled sun in garden.

Only tulip thoughts

If Jeff Bezos can send Katy Perry into space, he can pay a wealth tax so every American has debt-free healthcare.

Monochrome print of a close-up of a large open blossom facing upwards on a heart shaped leaf resting on water

Water Lily (1920) lithograph by artist printmaker Henrietta Shore #womensart

Fingers crossed my sweet potato brownies come out A1🤞🏾

Omelet with siracha and hemp seeds, roasted veggies (bell peppers, zucchini, and tomatoes), and freshly baked dough with veggies, sauce, pesto, and parmesan. All vegan.

Lunch🌱🙏🏾 #VegansEat #Plantbased

Vegan Dahl with battered air-fried tofu + garlic sourdough bread

Vegan Dahl with battered air-fried tofu + garlic sourdough bread 😋 #VegansEat

Thankfully, no😂🫨

Currently? No, but this can always change ✨️👀

Absolutely ✨️🌹❤️‍🔥

Anonymous messages! Anonymous messages!

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Potato, onions, and mushrooms soup with garlic butter breadsticks sounds heavenly today😋 Should I make a "honey" (agave) garlic butter bread or an apple tart with the leftover bread?