News
Inspired: Inside the Mind of a Poet
By Akil Johnson
July 30/ Life is poetic
So many of you have joined me at my online home, ApoeticLife.com, over the years. Well it was time to reflect, reset, redecorate, and refocus, which is what I have done. Join me in this new era, which together we have begun.
Inspired: forgive your fathers
By Akil Johnson
This is what I want to say to every brother whose heart was broken by the absence of his father. And also to that brother who saw their father everyday but he had no love to give or to put on display. Your anger and pain is so deep, it splits you from the top of your head to the sole of your feet. I understand the hole in your heart you've been trying to fill and where it has led you I know it was never your will.
Inspired: The Report Card
By Akil Johnson
So many are lost because the light is gone. The light your friends don’t see when they ask “Honey what’s wrong?” You respond by smiling and laughing as hard as you can, to mask the sadness of your inner woman or man.
INSPIRED!- 31 Days
By Akil Johnson
I used to live in a way most people do, building exterior walls tall and thick so that no one would want to penetrate through. If it is love and light we need, why is it that we build walls so high that no one who brings it can succeed? Quite a puzzle indeed, but I’ve come to the understanding that we imprison ourselves with the very thing from which we need to be freed.
Letters to Kilo: Save Me!
By Akil Johnson
Dear Kilo,
I went to see a movie called Looper today that reminded me of you and I except there was no love being given through the passage of time. If it were you and I in the film, instead of I being your friend I would have been your villain. I wouldn’t have cared about being forgiven for what I had done or become to you. In fact I would have been more than willing to run you over on the way to whatever agenda I had decided to pursue.
Virgin Islander publishes “Lies I Never Quite Believed”
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – In a book rightfully titled, “Lies I Never Quite Believed, The Emancipation of Akil Johnson”, Virgin Islander poet, writer and activist Akil Johnson took his horrifying experiences of being molested as a child to a book, but is hoping his story will help others.
Letters To Kilo
By Akil Johnson
We aren’t born knowing how to do this thing called life. If you could write letters and send them back in time to your younger self, what would they say? What lessons would you want to tell that younger you, about life that you’ve come to learn today? This Column Letters To Kilo (a nickname my grandmother gave me as a child) is all about what my letters to my younger self would say.
Letters To Kilo
By Akil Johnson
Dear Kilo,
There’s so much I want to say. So many thoughts escape me yet there are so many on the way. They say life goes by quickly that way. In our youth we often wish for latter days because of some lack of satisfaction with the present days.
Letters To Kilo
By Akil Johnson
Dear kilo,
The journey is long but the time is short. Within you lies a compass that if you follow will help you avoid the back and forth. Learn quickly but move slowly. You can’t learn what you think you already know. This is your journey my dear Kilo.
Letters To Kilo
By Akil Johnson
We aren’t born knowing how to do this thing called life. If you could write letters and send them back in time to your younger self, what would they say? What lessons would you want to tell that younger you, about life that you’ve come to learn today? This Column Letters To Kilo (a nickname my grandmother gave me as a child) is all about what my letters to my younger self would say.
.png)
.png)
.png)
Follow Us On
