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Writings by Mani
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Imani. 29. Writer. Creative weirdo👽
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Excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle✨️📖 p.s.- Happy 8/8 day!🦁🔥✨️🪄
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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
August 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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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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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
August 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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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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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
July 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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An excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle: a.co/d/7sCwsxa
Thank you for the support ✨️🌸🙏🏾
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"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
July 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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An excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle: a.co/d/7sCwsxa
Thank you for the support ✨️🌸🙏🏾
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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
July 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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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
July 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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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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June 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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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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June 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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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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June 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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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.
May 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Am I a Winner? Have we won? If so, what is the prize?

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May 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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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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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."
May 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Happy Friday (Venus) day! Let love and its pure essence surround you. Open your heart again to love and all of her wonders! 🫀❤️‍🔥

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Untitled Poem (Part 1) Obsession. Passion. Typhoon of emotion. Now, I have found myself lost in harmonious gasps and moans and whispers. I was taking in every breath. Every force of life. Poetry in the way your eyes caressed my being. My essence. My spirit was being massaged open. At that moment, all of my thoughts were frozen. I love you so much, so deeply, repeating. All of this magnetic energy flows everywhere around me. That heat and yearning caressed me deeply. Awakening my Kundalini. Prior jadedness left me accustomed to depletion. The joy of this profound moment, a new experience, refueled me. Now, I am recharging. Ever since, you've sparked me. Untitled Poem (Part 2) I'm plugging in. No longer abandoning, those desires among the flames, dancing in celebration. No more broken wires. No more haze or confusion. I'm free with you. Free in this union. My spirit ached for a mirror, a deep understanding. Now, you've manifested into my life. Our souls are now in remembrance. Our auras are reconnecting. I'm allowing your love to sweep me. I've permitted for your heart to marry with mine. No longer checking ticking clocks, anxiety counting down the time. I could get used to this untangling. Deep sigh. Exhale in relief. Finally, I can unwind.
December 20, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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These excerpts are from a short story titled "An Ode to Red" from my #book, Galaxies in Our Backyard. This particular piece impacted so many people when they first read it. Women's lives, stories, and experiences are real, and we need those stories to be told IN OUR OWN WORDS. #WritingsbyMani
"Her lips tell their own story. One many women know. She is her own God, collecting souls like expensive shoes displayed in a glittering storefront. Stringing along the hearts of playboys as her personal stain glassed mosaic." -An Ode to Red from the book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, on Amazon "Maybe she was a mother. Or sister. Or friend. Anyone but human. Anyone but her own entity. To this day, I still don't know her name but, whenever I see the color red, I think of her." -An Ode to Red from the book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, on Amazon
December 2, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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I wrote this after a pretty heavy yet reflective therapy session. You are worthy of today! A declaration of peace, celebration, and reverence for how far you've come!✨

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Today's Declaration (Part 1) So, I tried to quit yesterday, but it has passed. Too late. Like the time before innocent eyes. Before gifts were stolen and lies laced black tongues. Before the last leaf fell. Before that last semester. Before I opened new chapters and left doors open for new unfortunate souls to wander through. A time before everything shifted in my world but remained untouched, untainted, and unscathed in yours. Always lost staggering around in your orbit. Heart reading: OCCUPIED AT FULL CAPACITY, when it was ever only just me. Today's Declaration (Part 2) All this transpired after repressed rage bubbled open. After sadness escaped my veins and throat. After swallowing pride and pills. After lying in wait under clinical fluorescent lights. After sanity had officially left the chat. After shame undid the masquerade, is when I came alive, and savored the gift that is today.
November 22, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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Took a bit to get it out but, it's here! How many people have felt they gave their all in love and now, are left footing the bill of healing from said experience? If so, this is for you. Your love is expensive. Make sure the expenses ADD UP! 🫀🗯️
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Expenses Poem (Part 1) You said this world was ours, and I believed you. You said you would love me until the end of time and beyond that, and I believed you. You told me you would feed my soul and take on my burdens as if they were yours alone to bear and, I believed you. You told me you would never be the cause of my weeping or ache and, I believed you. As my tears fell into an ocean of despondency and my sense of belief dwindled and faltered, I still believed. I laid awake, trapped in my jumbled mind between reality and delusion, fact and fiction, about what was, what wasn't, and what I wanted it to be, I still believed you. As I shielded my frown with a smile and "I'm okay," I believed you. As I laid down my desires and ambitions to pacify your core wounded self at the expense of my inner child, I believed you. Expenses Poem (Part 2) As I put down and put off my healing and elevation to raise you on my shoulders, I believed you still. It was only when I stared in the mirror and only saw you, that I remembered. Love is a choice. Love is a series of continuous actions. Love is peace, clarity, and exploration of the depths of our souls and others. Love is a cost. Love has hidden meanings and messages and secret longings. Love is expensive. I gave everything, sacrificed all, and left nothing untouched for myself; it cost me dearly. I've emptied my vessel enough for you to fill it until overflowing or absorb into nothingness, and it cost me. What is the price of love? Endless? I'm not sure how but I now go forth towards the light, with the inner knowing that my love is expensive. It will cost, but in the end, I won't be footing the bill.
November 20, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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Going through any type of separation or ending is difficult❤️‍🩹I see you. I hear you. I'm right there with you. We are rising above and finding our own healing, despite it all🦋

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Remnants (PART 1) This feeling was distinct. In its finality. In the changing of motions from my previous life. It was like a terminus. And then, there I was. I was perched on the cliff's edge, holding my breath for the fallout to come. Everything I felt shattered at the mere vibrato from your larynx. A fleeting epiphany materialized at that very moment. I was left with only the throb of certainty that the heart in my chest, in this body shared freely, cautiously, and candidly, had been etched as indelible forever. Irrevocably changed. That's the power of love. That is the weight of its essence. To imprint its will upon participants, a higher vibrational ascension, or a decaying regression. Remnants (PART 2) The latter refers to toxic gourmet cheese, cleverly placed on tiny traps that you cannot see or choose to ignore until it is too late. The former is universally desired, coveted, and worshipped on the pillar of existence, but somehow, the energy that is always in access is found in deficit and in lack of true, righteous devotion. So, after being bestowed such a gift, what I have to say is this, if I earnestly gave all I had, I now realize I have to wrangle with the looming, abstract concept that, I will always need to find what's left. After every conception, and ending.
November 18, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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New poetry up! If you've ever felt like this flower that has beat the odds, this is for you🫀🌺

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To Be a Flower Who would've thought, that the flower that everyone sees, squeezed in the cracks of concrete, in the city's smog and haze would bloom? Who could've known, that same flower has been here before? Despite all, she continued to grow. Even when it storms. Even when she's sore. Even when the stems felt like thorns. Who would have imagined, that the flower didn't need the sun or water from another source, but that the only power she'd ever need was her own? That same flower would go on to continue beating the odds. She knows who she is and what she wants. She can see friend from foe, real from fake. She knows who came to water her garden and those who came to take it. No longer does she hunch over in the pursuit of attention from passersby. No, she has found her own well that never runs dry.
November 15, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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New poetry up! If you've ever felt like this flower that has beat the odds, this is for you🫀🌺

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To Be a Flower Who would've thought, that the flower that everyone sees, squeezed in the cracks of concrete, in the city's smog and haze would bloom? Who could've known, that same flower had been here before? Despite all, she continued to grow. Even when it storms. Even when she's sore. Even when the stems felt like thorns. Who would have imagined, that the flower didn't need the sun or water from another source, but that the only power she'd ever need was her own? That same flower would go on to continue beating the odds. She knows who she is and what she wants. She can see friend from foe, real from fake. She knows who came to water her garden and those who came to take it. No longer does she hunch over in the pursuit of attention from passersby. No, she has found her own well that never runs dry.
November 15, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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Threads
Love energy,
neither dies nor erases itself.
It transforms, evolves, and alchemizes.
It can become positive or negative but never fully materializing to the state of neutrality.
This inner battle of the heart and mind,
so twisted and mangled and cut,
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Photo by frank mckenna on Unsplash. Picture of threads unraveled and scattered about.
November 14, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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Some words of encouragement for anyone who needs it💙
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November 14, 2024 at 5:31 AM