{"id":2112,"date":"2025-03-14T22:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T22:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-pact.com\/?page_id=2112"},"modified":"2025-03-14T22:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T22:40:43","slug":"poetic-word-ministries-poetry-cafe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/life-pact.com\/index.php\/poetic-word-ministries-poetry-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetic Word Ministries Poetry Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-columns gb-slate-section-numbered-list-and-image gb-layout-columns-2 gb-2-col-equal gb-has-custom-background-color gb-has-custom-text-color gb-columns-center alignfull\" style=\"padding-top:6em;padding-right:1em;padding-bottom:6em;padding-left:1em;background-color:#ffffff;color:#1f1f1f\"><div class=\"gb-layout-column-wrap gb-block-layout-column-gap-3 gb-is-responsive-column\" style=\"max-width:1200px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shanieceballyn.com.awomaninspired.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Poetry-Flyer-Final.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column gb-is-vertically-aligned-center\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shanieceballyn.com.awomaninspired.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sisters-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading gpb-fluid-4 has-text-color\" style=\"color:#1f1f1f;font-size:40px\">presenting TJ&#8217;s Poetry Corner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#1f1f1f;font-size:22px\">We&#8217;re here to help you navigate through life with encouraging words of hope and truth, filled with positive insights on how to face the world with your eyes wide open. Let&#8217;s take our next steps together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list gpb-number-list\">\n<li><strong>Share your story<\/strong><br>Let&#8217;s chat about the ups and down of everyday life as we attempt to live out the great American experiment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Read a Poem<\/strong><br>We would love to hear your poetry. Or maybe you have the special gift of bringing to life the lyrics of other great poets, like Maya Angelo, Pearl Cleage etc. just to name a few.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Are you writing a book?<\/strong><br>Join Shaniece B. Allyn and other special guest writers as we endeavor to put our words to power through sharing our experiences on writing our first novel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Let&#8217;s explore together<\/strong><br>Spread the word! Invite someone you know who might want to step to mic expressing their innermost thoughts through poetry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticword.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Tonya-7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticword.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Tonya-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8112\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Live audio welcome from TJ:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/poeticword.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Welcome1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">The poem below is our unique invitation to <em>TJ&#8217;s Poetry Corner <\/em>where Ladies are always welcome to share their poetry while relaxing and enjoying good poetry wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step to the Mic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shanieceballyn.com.awomaninspired.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/estudio-clipart-mic-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-226\" style=\"width:67px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-very-light-gray-to-cyan-bluish-gray-gradient-background has-background has-normal-font-size\">Step to the Mic and read a phrase\nFrom your life script, if you please.\nOr maybe you would like to tell someone else's story\nIt doesn't matter my Sista's \u201cjust read!\u201d\n\nHere's where Ladies can come together,\nBonding and sharing their most intimate thoughts.\nWhere words of expressions vibrate the walls.\nThe price for articulation, No cost!\n\nWomen of all color expressing themselves\nThrough the path of the spoken word,\nThere are those who may not understand \nBecause their visions are hatred blurred.\n\nBut- here our poets come together peacefully\nTo be intoxicated by good poetry wine.\nFor those who wish to feel the love\nBy all means please get on-line.\n\nOr maybe you would like to just sit back\nAnd allow the verses to ease your mind,\nThe pleasure is yours for the taking.\nHowever, to the<em> Poetess<\/em>, please be kind.\n\nStay focused my sisters, don\u2019t look back\nTomorrow is yet another day.\nWith all the love inside our words\nNo haters can get in our way\n\nSo, hold on to the arms of your chairs\nBuckle up and enjoy the ride.\nAs our Sista\u2019s come slinging words of peace and love\nBringing it strong and personified.\n\nStep to the Mic.......\n                   <strong>written by Shaniece B. Allyn<\/strong>\n\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-columns gb-slate-team gb-layout-team-1 gb-layout-columns-1 one-column gb-has-custom-background-color gb-has-custom-text-color gb-columns-center alignfull\" style=\"padding-top:6em;padding-right:1em;padding-bottom:6em;padding-left:1em;background-color:#ededed;color:#1f1f1f\"><div class=\"gb-layout-column-wrap gb-block-layout-column-gap-2 gb-is-responsive-column\" style=\"max-width:1200px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column gb-is-vertically-aligned-bottom\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5%\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-container gb-block-container\"><div class=\"gb-container-inside\"><div class=\"gb-container-content\" style=\"max-width:840px\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#1f1f1f;font-size:40px\">Read a poem from your favorite Poetess.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-normal-font-size\" style=\"color:#1f1f1f\"><em>A talented group of creative individuals who shares their art, with cinematography, and all niches in between. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-columns gb-layout-columns-3 gb-3-col-equal\"><div class=\"gb-layout-column-wrap gb-block-layout-column-gap-2 gb-is-responsive-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<div style=\"background-color:#ededed;color:#1f1f1f\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-profile-box center square gb-has-avatar gb-font-size-18 gb-block-profile gb-profile-columns\"><div class=\"gb-profile-column gb-profile-avatar-wrap\"><div class=\"gb-profile-image-wrap\"><figure class=\"gb-profile-image-square\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gb-profile-avatar wp-image-8098\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticword.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Maya_Angelou-300x265-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"gb-profile-column gb-profile-content-wrap\"><h2 class=\"gb-profile-name\" style=\"color:#1f1f1f\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shanieceballyn.com.awomaninspired.org\/maya-angelou\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"195\">Maya Angelou<\/a><\/h2><p class=\"gb-profile-title\" style=\"color:#1f1f1f\">American Memoirist and Poet<\/p><div class=\"gb-profile-text\"><p>Known for the awe-inspiring poems:  Phenomenal Woman, Still I Rise, and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.<\/p><\/div><ul class=\"gb-social-links\"><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column gb-is-vertically-aligned-bottom\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<div style=\"background-color:#ededed;color:#1f1f1f\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-profile-box center square gb-has-avatar gb-font-size-18 gb-block-profile gb-profile-columns\"><div class=\"gb-profile-column gb-profile-avatar-wrap\"><div class=\"gb-profile-image-wrap\"><figure class=\"gb-profile-image-square\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gb-profile-avatar wp-image-8100\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticword.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/murial-6.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"gb-profile-column gb-profile-content-wrap\"><h2 class=\"gb-profile-name\" style=\"color:#1f1f1f\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shanieceballyn.com.awomaninspired.org\/\">Shaniece B. Allyn<\/a><\/h2><p class=\"gb-profile-title\" style=\"color:#1f1f1f\">Author, Poet, and Bible Teacher<\/p><div class=\"gb-profile-text\"><p>  Introducing her first novel, My Lyrical Safe Haven, and prize-winning poetry, What Makes me a Diva, and Are my Children Free<span style=\"color: rgb(31, 31, 31); letter-spacing: -0.2px;\">.<\/span><\/p><\/div><ul class=\"gb-social-links\"><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<div style=\"background-color:#ededed;color:#1f1f1f\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-profile-box center square gb-has-avatar gb-font-size-18 gb-block-profile gb-profile-columns\"><div class=\"gb-profile-column gb-profile-avatar-wrap\"><div class=\"gb-profile-image-wrap\"><figure class=\"gb-profile-image-square\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gb-profile-avatar wp-image-8099\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticword.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Pearl-Cleage-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"gb-profile-column gb-profile-content-wrap\"><h2 class=\"gb-profile-name\" style=\"color:#1f1f1f\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shanieceballyn.com.awomaninspired.org\/pearl-cleage\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"203\">Pearl Cleage<\/a><\/h2><p class=\"gb-profile-title\" style=\"color:#1f1f1f\">American Playwright and Essayist<br><\/p><div class=\"gb-profile-text\"> Famous Plays:  Puppet play (1981) \u00b7 Hospice (1983) \u00b7 Good News (1984) \u00b7 Porch Songs (1985) \u00b7 Famous Poem: We Speak your Name.<\/div><ul class=\"gb-social-links\"><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-columns gb-slate-section-text-with-cta gb-slate-text-with-cta gb-layout-columns-1 gb-1-col-equal gb-has-background-dim gb-has-background-dim-30 gb-has-custom-background-color gb-has-custom-text-color gb-columns-center alignfull\" style=\"padding-top:9em;padding-right:1em;padding-bottom:9em;padding-left:1em;background-color:#1f1f1f;color:#f5f5f5;background-position:50% 52%\"><div class=\"gb-layout-column-wrap gb-block-layout-column-gap-3 gb-is-responsive-column\" style=\"max-width:872px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#f5f5f5;font-size:36px\">On Tuesday night, March 25, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color has-larger-font-size wp-elements-174c453c22f746f8a3be65633207c090\" style=\"color:#dc2424\">Poetic Revelations presents its&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shanieceballyn.com.awomaninspired.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/opening-night-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-288\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-large-font-size\" style=\"color:#f0a34b\">Welcome to our first live &#8220;Poetry Night&#8221; hosted by <strong>Shaniece B. Allyn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shanieceballyn.com.awomaninspired.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TJ-12-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-267\" style=\"width:96px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>All participants must register upon entry by clicking on door below to obtain your Season Pass to our weekly Poetry Nights @ TJ&#8217;s Poetry Corner.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/n8Zex-jpTaCIGPbMhVGT6g\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shanieceballyn.com.awomaninspired.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Door-Final-B.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-282\" style=\"width:188px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4a4aa4500d192cdb4876c9b9ae009494\" style=\"color:#8a0909\">See our featured &#8216;Poem&#8221; and or &#8220;Guest&#8221; below.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-columns gb-slate-section-testimonial-image gb-slate-section-testimonial gb-layout-columns-2 gb-2-col-equal gb-has-background-dim gb-has-background-dim-60 gb-background-cover gb-background-no-repeat gb-has-custom-background-color gb-has-custom-text-color gb-columns-center alignfull\" style=\"padding-top:6em;padding-right:1em;padding-bottom:6em;padding-left:1em;background-color:#1f1f1f;color:#f5f5f5;background-image:url(http:\/\/www.shanieceballyn.com.awomaninspired.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/background-1.jpg);background-position:69% 35%\"><div class=\"gb-layout-column-wrap gb-block-layout-column-gap-2 gb-is-responsive-column\" style=\"max-width:1200px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-rounded\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shanieceballyn.com.awomaninspired.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Maya.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-260\" style=\"width:397px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">                    <strong>Phenomenal Woman<\/strong><br>Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.<br>I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size<br>but when I start to tell them,<br>they think I'm telling lies.<br>I say,<br>it's in the reach of my arms,<br>the span of my hips,<br>the stride of my step,<br>the curl of my lips.<br>I'm a woman phenomenally.<br>Phenomenal woman, that's me....................<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column gb-is-vertically-aligned-center\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#f5f5f5;font-size:32px\">Poem of the evening is written by none other than the historically inspiring Maya Angelou.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, as we read and explore the in-depth passion behind her famous poem &#8220;Phenomenal Woman&#8221; while giving a well-deserved homage to our guest Poetess the late Maya Angelou.   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