Ashanti Files

Ashanti is the author of Woven a beautiful collection of poems with fire and insight. In her own words: For me, poetry is an echo of what the heart senses. While emotions are difficult to put into words, the art and craft of poetry is my attempt do to justice to the heart by reaching the minds of others. I am a Registered Nurse by trade, a wife by choice and a mother by fortune. My poetry reveals my trials and triumphs as a woman of color. It explores Social and Political issues as well as love, sensuality, Mental Health and the struggle to live life on my terms.
Carpe Diem
The phrase is carpe diem
But Chadeick Boseman is dead
It was of natural causes
Which is more than can be said
About Biianna Taylor and Sandra Bland
When I think of my daughters my stomach clams
Up into a little ball and I spit up bile
From the imaginary promises and americas guile
To call this nation free
Barbed wire around the white house
A president whose mediocrity
Is praised by the uninformed
And dependent on by the 1%
Black children dying daily
And our nations money is spent
On a space force
Let’s talk about the race force
Of white men who treat us like the most dangerous game
Killing us so frequently it puts poes work to shame
SAY HER NAME
I so damn tired
Of another report of another gun fired
Taking the life a suspect
Black Americans treated worse than king George’s subjects
Yet you reject that it’s time for OUR revolution
You reject that our lives matter the same
You reject our right to bear arms
You reject that this time we ain’t playing
By the same rules as activists in the past
We will not be moved
We refuse to kiss the ass
Of democrats who lie
Shit they haven’t earned our vote
Clinton is known for how Monica choked
On his dick and we choking on the dems complacency
Choking on republican rage
Choking on the fact that our Facebook page
Sparks outcry from another black death
And just like the plague you better hold your breath
Don your masks and but dont close your eyes
Momma Maya promised you again I will rise
And we rise in anger
We rise in pain
We rise and refuse to fall
So SAY HER GOT DAMN NAME
Carpe Diem