Abundance Poem

from The Color Purple

Last night Black Feminist Film School held a virtual workshop that activated the dinner table scene in the film The Color Purple as a practice space for ancestral listening. Love and gratitude to all the participants who brought their folks, their love, all their senses and their beautiful brilliance together. We had such a great time. We invited specific ancestors to watch the scene with us and noticed what they noticed. We used Sangodare’s Ancestral Reverence as Character Development activity to get to know our ancestors even better and we reveled in the abundance of how ancestral presence and practice is available in every moment. This is our abundance poem…feel free to read it out loud and in groups!

If you missed the workshop and would like to participate you can access the recorded version here.

Abundance Poem

From the participants in “Already Been Done” an Ancestral Listening Workshop  from Black Feminist Film School

We have more than enough power

We have more than enough energy

We have more than enough light.

We have more than enough wisdom

We have more than enough memory.

We have more than enough protection

We have more than enough power to manifest what we want and repel what seeks to harm us.

We have more than enough love

We have MORE than enough love to go around.

We have more than enough connection

We have more than enough connection to love.

We have more than enough mothering touch

We have more than enough time, we just have to make space.

We have more than enough time

We have more than enough space

We have more than enough joy

We have more than enough stories and courage to heal our worlds.

We have more than enough fire.

We have more than enough peace

We have more than enough activation

We have more than enough meaning

We have more than enough sweetness

We have more than enough laughter

We have more than enough beauty

We have more than enough kitchen tables

We have more than enough reasons to love ourselves as we are

We have more than enough clarity

We have more than enough gentleness

We have more than enough compassion for ourselves

We have more than enough intimacy

We have more than enough reverberation

We have more than enough music

We have more than enough audacity

We have more than enough breath

We have more than enough examples

We have more than enough bridge

We have more than enough capacity

We have more than enough illumination

We have more than enough poetry, everywhere

We have more than enough community

We have more than enough pathway

We have more than enough guidance

We have more than enough guidance

We have more

We have more than enough

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