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Aftertongue by Stay Zen

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Free Flow Friday
(Activity) Open Expression (Exercise) Create freely in response to the week. Any form. Any length. Any Topic. You Choose. Follow Momentum.  Here’s My Offering Rainbow Tears You go about your day…. listlessly… in monotonous bliss. Oblivious…. to life around you. Just existing… barely resisting… oxygen. Living for the populace… Pondering that if you went ghost… would you really be missed? Failed attempts at dreams that are kept buried. Problems & fears that keep you worried. Fruition of awaited achievements curtailed. Constant reminders that yet again you failed. So you walk around looking like death ran over. Only to discover… the catharsis in your tears. Like rain showers in their flow. It is their own reward…. as a catalyst for the rainbow 🌈 Of passions…of hope…of repressed contemplation. Funny how with every watery trail, one comes to the realization… That impassioned release, often births a myriad of revelation… to any situation. So….to any given issue, there’s a potential solution. ©️15Oct2021 ericka Floyd Now you Follow The Flow.
Free Flow Friday
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Flow… like wolF spelled backwards. Floyd… Mayweather defense: Philly Shell against a weapon formed down by the seashore. Solution… Mo money (mo problems is only a problem when you less fortunate). Situation… is a synonym for drama created by folks who don’t know how to act. Revelation… had a falling out with her besties Life and Karma; she said them bitches be moving funny. Realization… Popeye’s fried chicken is a whole heap of breading—eating one piece creates enough crumbs to conjure memories of Hansel & Gretel. Trail… by 29-point deficit. That’s my new mantra. 29-point deficit. When the other side seems insurmountable. Knicks in five. Contemplation… There’s so many things I want to get done before midnight turns me back into a pumpkin. Rainbow… God’s covenant. Women’s clothing store. Pride Month. Sprinkles. Skittles. Reading. Reward… LOST PET. If you found one and returned it to its owner, what if that animal ran away? Did you just catch it and return it back to slavery? ~ 🫟✍🏾
WHPB Prompts 8/8/26
Miss Lady When the Cat’s Away / It Looks Good on You / My Mecca / I Want to Sink My Ears Into You / It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane! No, It’s a GIANT SPIDER! 🕷️ / The Tsunami That is My Life / Aquarius Do Not Hug Russ/It’s a real lifesaver/I still saw humanity/Let’s say you guys are all excellent/Silence speaks of comfort between listeners/I cannot translate the universe without hearing what it needs me to say/You’re another ray of sunshine/I put on a red dress, and I showed out! MydNite/Brain focus/Love is the Answer/Inspiration is a gift we all give/Aquarius, don't like people/Exhaling among trees/ Running is a big deal, Hello!
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MECCA Music is a place I pilgrimage to for Encouragement, Commiseration, inspiration to Create, and just the joy of Auditory delight. For example: Man I Need - Olivia Dean Everything is Everything - Lauryn Hill Criticize - Alexander O’Neal C.R.E.A.M. - Wu-Tang Clan Airworks - J Dilla 🫟 ✍🏾 MAD
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@Michelle Cox “If I could write consistently, it would be about love.”
WEEKLY ROLL CALL 8/2/26 - 8/8/26
✨Thank you to everyone who continues to show up, write, share, and pour into this space week after week. Your consistency doesn’t just keep the prompts moving, it keeps this community alive. Your words matter, your participation matters, and you are appreciated. 💜✨ Our TOP Three ⭐️: @Naomie Thomas @Ericka Floyd @Tiera Porter-House Honorable Mentions: @Laron Henderson @M. a. Dennis @Mick Collins @Craven Smith @Michelle Cox @Tierrah Nicole @Antwion Shamar
WEEKLY ROLL CALL 8/2/26 - 8/8/26
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In a season where people call even a child of God out their name, in public and out of spite, it’s a blessing and a balm imported from Gilead to receive a mention that’s honorable. 🫡
😂 YES, I’M MOVING THE FURNITURE AGAIN.
If you’ve been inside Aftertongue watching categories disappear, rooms change names, doors move down the hallway, and entire pieces of furniture apparently migrate overnight… I see you. 😂 I feel your pain. Consider this your official confirmation that Miss Lady has been redecorating the house while everybody is still living in it. The goal is simple: when you come here, finding what you want should feel easier. 1️⃣ Poetry has moved into ✨ Love & Lyrics. 2️⃣ The writing prompts for The Workshop connected to our Empathy Save the Species rooms will now live together in harmony under 🔥 Empathy Save the Species. 3️⃣ Our men now have 🪑 Spaces for Men, built for conversations that rarely get a room. 4️⃣ Spiritual programming has its own landing place in 🕯️ The Quiet Chapel. 5️⃣ 🎭 Events stays easy to reach because episodes, broadcasts, workshops, and replays deserve a place you can find quickly. 6️⃣ And 🌕 Resonance Room becomes more useful as the place to catch everything moving through the community right now. Somewhere in the middle of all this, several imaginary movers have definitely asked me: “Ma’am… where exactly do you want this couch?” My answer remains: “I’ll know when I see it.” 😂 Thank you for rolling with the rearranging while we make the house easier to move through. Feel free to wander around, open doors, claim your favorite chair, and tell me when something feels easier to find. Or harder… 👀 And yes. There is a very real possibility I will move the couch again. 😂 Calm moves differently here.
😂 YES, I’M MOVING THE FURNITURE AGAIN.
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🎶 keep on movin / don’t stop 🎶
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Trickster-Text Thursday: Linguistic Disturbance
Meaning Is Slightly Unsupervised Here (Activity) Let Language Loosen Giving Linguistic Disturbance (Exercise) Post one to five lines where language bends, slips, or misbehaves. Short. Witty. Unpolished (Micro Poem). Let meaning drift just far enough to notice. Topic: Seasonedness (n.) - The quiet confidence that arrives when proving yourself no longer feels urgent. __________________ Here’s My Offering (Example): Seasonedness taught me that not every table deserves my flavor. I no longer over-season myself for those with underdeveloped taste. Experience has salted away insecurities that once left me bland, and now confidence simmers without needing to be stirred. I know I’m seasoned when proving it would only spoil the dish. #SouthernSeoulSpeaks #Tresduravia #SeoulScribez
Trickster-Text Thursday: Linguistic Disturbance
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Once the seasoning gets to the bone, it’s done. Lawry’s, Dan-O’s, Adobo, cancer, fear, the chill that’s in the air. It seemed funny until it got to my femur; now it has turned into something I have to pick, an existential threat made flesh like Christ. Anti-freeze. I can’t stop the cold or the rain or the person who won’t stop seasoning until psychosis says stop. The same rules that apply to glass houses apply to skeletons. Because if anyone gets picked on long enough, eventually they will have a bone to pick. I’ve spoken to bones: dry, ancient, rawhide, all the way seasoned with bitter herbs. The bones have spoken. The damage of overly salty is done. Let it go. Close the door to the closet…before the overseasonedness scent of touching God’s anointed reaches what remains buried in a plot labeled grave truth.
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@Naomie Thomas I love this part: “trying to make myself palatable to people who came to my table already determined not to taste me right.” and there were at least 3 other parts that hit me just as hard. Great write. Part poem, part sermon. #preach
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M. A. Dennis contains multitudes: Poet. Father. Formerly Homeless. Fights for Housing & Mental Health. Has 3 pet Rocks (Chris, Fraggle & Gibraltar).

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