Blessings. Thank you for taking the time to experience “Come Back As Men.” Back in 2006, a fellow poet friend and I were free-styling while driving to a poetry slam competition in Gainesville, FL. We were both seasoned poets who had won various competitions and we thought we would free-style at the poetry slam just to step out of our comfort zone. As we were practicing, the essence of “Come Back As Men” channeled through us. We both slipped into a trance and knew we had to share this perspective of war at the competition. After we won, I went home and created a solo poem, convinced I had struck magic. While I was writing in my living room, around fifty deceased women burst through my heart chakra. I was convulsing and crying as my hand shook violently to capture all of the words these spirits were spewing at me. I looked up and could see that these women had come from different war periods, mostly from World War I & II, but some dating back to the ...
Women's Spiritual Poetry