#attemptingadulthood

[fortheloveofpoetry]

🌸Bali🌺 2/3 —- —- —- Nanang was a great teacher 🙏🏼 but every lesson comes with failures and I certainly got to know the sea pretty well as I attempted #surfing for the first time! —- —- The determination to GET UP on that board and ride the wave was stronger than I thought it could be and I have a new-found respect and admiration for surfers - It is a lot harder than it looks! But soooo so rewarding too. I was incredibly proud of myself for managing to stand up not once, but THREE times during this two-hour lesson 😁 and while I was in the sea, tilting my board above the waves, paddling furiously against the current, heaving myself up onto the board, falling off, trying again, then pushing myself up from the board and attempting to stand despite the fast waters, I couldn’t help but be the #poet I am and make the obvious life comparison...I am learning in so many different ways the art of failing gracefully, publicly, shamelessly, and continuously. It’s all growth. It’s all part of the journey to success. It’s tough and it takes grit and continued determination and it costs more than a few bruises(!) but boooyyy does it feel damn good when we do just GET. YOURSELF. UP! 🏄🏻‍♀️💃🏻 —- —- Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk. Dare to be brilliant 💛 —- —- —- #bali #surfing #lessons #growth #journey #attemptingadulthood #attemptingartistry #attemptingsurfing #acceptance #failgracefully #failoften #fail #success #joy #achievement (en Kuta Beach, Bali) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp9RJxHBK7a/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ug29nxjlo3yz

[vuyelwa]

Flowers and beer #prettylittlethings #capitalcraft #capturedmoments #urban #citylife #colorfulicious #fullers #honeydew #goldenale #attemptingadulthood (at Capital Craft Centurion)

[fortheloveofpoetry]

apparently i’m a model now _ _ _ _ _ 📷:@macstudios _ _ _ _ _ #model #fashion #mensfashion #womensfashion #androgynous #lgbtq #choker #london #photography #attemptingadulthood (at London, United Kingdom)

[fortheloveofpoetry]

Edited dates*** also new website is now up and running!!! Check out www.bellacox.com :) . . . 📸 courtesy of @tyronelewis22 at Spoken Word London last Wednesday . . . . #attemptingartistry #attemptingadulthood #newdates #newwebsite #websitelaunch #slam #spokenwordpoetry #poetry #poetinlondon #poetsofinstagram #lgbtq #gigs

[fortheloveofpoetry]

Also my new and improved website is launching at midnight on 28.03.18 (tomorrow night) and i cannot Waaaaiiittt for you to see it! . . . 📸 courtesy of @tyronelewis22 at Spoken Word London last week 🎉 . . . . #performer #poet #attemptingartistry #attemptingadulthood #performances #gigs #lgbtq #london #oxford #spokenwordpoetry #poetry #thingstodoinlondon #community #speak #spoken (at London, United Kingdom)

[fortheloveofpoetry]

One more sleep till the PEN TING relaunch!!!! 🎊 . . >>Reposting this from @pentingpoetry that you should follow to stay up to date<< 🎤🎤 Make sure you reserve your seat by RSVPing and buying your £1 🎟 on the EventBrite page! 🎤🎤 You’ll be hearing from each one of the new team members as feature performances and there are plenty of open mic spots to sign up for on the door @ 6.30pm! 🎤🎤 . . #hiphop #poetry #poetsofinstagram #londonpoet #attemptingadulthood #attemptingartistry #queerpoet #performer #event #penting

[fortheloveofpoetry]

Trying prose poetry using parataxis, Sharon Olds inspired with thanks to @blackbodyradiation_x for the question prompt: What do i see in my reflection? Landscape of a Woman 📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝📝 #attemptingartistry #attemptingadulthood #poet #poetry #parataxis #prosepoem #poetsofinsta #poetsofinstagram #londonpoet #landscapeofawoman #feminine #devine #landscape

[fortheloveofpoetry]

The Writing Room 2017 cohort is #lit 🔥 Big thanks to @applesandsnakes and @rogerrobinsononline for all that you've given us by way of #poetic #knowledge these past 6weeks 🌸 🎤 🎤 🎤 📸 Photo credit: @repeatbeatpoet 🙌🏽 . . . #poet #poetry #londonpoet #attemptingartistry #attemptingadulthood #blessed #thewritingroom #spokenwordpoetry #londonpoetryscene #blackandwhitephoto

[fortheloveofpoetry]

This FRIDAY! 7.30pm! @hoxtonhall I will be performing a 15min #Feature set @jazzversejukebox hosted by the incredible @jumokef accompanied by an amazing full #jazzband!!!! YES! For REAL! I cant wait to see your beautiful faces there! Grab the last tix now! Link @ bellacox.com !!! 😊💃🏻🎤💃🏻😊 #attemptingartistry #attemptingadulthood #poet #performer #londonpoet #poetsofinstagram #poetsofinsta #stage #jazz #poetry #music #words #london #spokenwordpoetry

[fortheloveofpoetry]

What a great team we were! @kat_francois @antoshwojcik and myself at @hammer&tonguehackney for #Poets vs #Rappers hosted by the hilarious duo @poetcurious & @angrysam 💥💥💥 Suuuuch a fun night! My cheeks are sore from all the smiling! 😊 thank you so much for having me! 💛 . . Okay okay, so, rappers won... THIS TIME buuut next time it will be us #POETS ! #spokenwordpoetry #spokenwordlondon #performer #attemptingadulthood #attemptingartistry #rap #battle #poetry #hammer&tongue

[fortheloveofpoetry]

It took me ages to learn how to write a good artist bio. - - I had no idea how to start. The process felt cringey, self-aggrandising and somehow also false and altogether Not Fun. What do you put in it!? What’s relevant? How long, how short, how quirky should it be? What do booking agents even care about? Should it be funny, self-effacing, cocky!? Which venues matter? Which parts of ME matter? - - - Plus then theres the ‘high definition headshot’ that needs to be taken properly and convey the right ‘you’ for the job and, take my word for it, a self-timer picture taken in front of a white wall at home wearing too much lipstick is NOT the way to go. 🙅🏻‍♀️ - - - But now, 5+years into my #attemptingartistry as a “career poet” I am happy to say that I have finally cracked it for myself. 💃🏻This bio works for me*. It feels honest, it conveys the right amount of skill/experience without sounding pushy or forced (i think) and its clear about who I am and what I can do when booked for a job. - - - So, im sharing this here, along with the names of some epic London-based photographers who I owe some of my best headshots to, in the hopes that it maybe helps some of you get a few more gigs - or at least feel less alone in the bio-writing struggle. DM me if you have any further questions, id be happy to help. - - *this might not be the right format for everyone :) - - 📸Photographers: @tyronelewis22 @kukadoodles @daisytgee @andre_ll_media - #careerpoet #bio #howtowriteabio #artistbio #artist #london #poet #performer #mc #eventhost #attemptingartistry #attemptingadulthood #mentorship #spokenword #community (en London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxuyieLjcls/?igshid=1ctreactljl8w

[fortheloveofpoetry]

💛Barbican Young Poets 2017-19💛 Another goodbye, another new beginning. I am SO thankful to have been a part of BYP for two years now. i feel incredibly lucky to have had all the growth, writing and performance opportunities that BYP has afforded me and so grateful to know and to have worked with such talented artists. Y’all are brilliant. This last showcase really showed me the depth of thinking and wonder that you all have and its been lovely getting to know everyones individual styles. I look forward to more of that :) #poetrypotluck A massive thanks and shout out as always to the ever-wonderful ‘poetry dad’ @jacobsamlarose for all you did/do for us and to @rachellongx for all your guidance as well. Im gonna miss these fortnightly trips to the @barbicancentre but as 2019 is showing me, every ending is simply a new beginning waiting to start. - - - #poet #poetry #london #barbicanyoungpoets #byp #artists #attemptingartistry #attemptingadulthood #spokenword (en Barbican Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvoE3i6hift/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tllisccvn49w

[fortheloveofpoetry]

💜Goodbye Speak=💛 - - - February has been a very emotional month for me with all these goodbyes. But I am reminded that one goodbye is so often another hello. To hear my speech, have a look on IGtv. - - - #attemptingartistry #attemptingadulthood #goodbye (en The Water Poet) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuoGzqPhRVd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=74zsgi4jcjt7

[fortheloveofpoetry]

💜Goodbye Speak=💛 - - - February has been a very emotional month for me with all these goodbyes. But I am reminded that one goodbye is so often another hello. To hear my speech, have a look on IGtv. - - - #attemptingartistry #attemptingadulthood #goodbye (en The Water Poet) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuoGzqPhRVd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wvxx1b65lsn

[fortheloveofpoetry]

you may disbelieve me, but this is draft 16. . . . . #instapoetry #spokenwordpoetry #micropoem #micropoetry #homeis #home #community #poet #writer #poem #shortpoem #poetsofinstagram #poetsinlondon #attemptingartistry #attemptingadulthood

[fortheloveofpoetry]

2019 began with 5 million women creating a human wall in India to protest sexism, and Cyntoia Brown in America will be freed on August 8th from her life sentence for killing her rapist, and #feminism is becoming more and more widely understood for what it is and why we need it, and I am shedding skins that no longer serve me and learning truths that empower and grow me into a better version of myself, and the world is still heavy and still misted by toxic air but suddenly I am 21 again, sitting in my Uni dorm room, full of naive optimism, with a belly full of fire ready to fight against injustices everywhere and hope seems like a realistic, as well as a necessary, option and I am nostalgic for the innocence I once had but emboldened by all that I now know and after months of what has felt like emotional hibernation, this quote I wrote back then has meaning again. And so I am sharing it in the hopes (intended) that it holds meaning for you too and that this will be the year that the oceans of change rise up to counter all that is not in line with harmony and hope. 🌺 🌺 🌺 🌺 #hopeoverfear #2019isouryear #equality #feminism #justice #hope #attemptingadulthood #attemptingartistry 🌺 (en London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsWe2bvhTsj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zh0jjxyufjip