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Adiela Akoo
Literary Fiction, Poetry, General Nonfiction
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12898
- Total Quotes
18
- Books
5
- Member Since
Oct 2019
- Gender
Female
- Country
South Africa
- Born
4 May
- Profession
Author/Poet/Publisher
About
Mulifaceted, Adiela Akoo is a passionate Poet, Author, and Publisher, among other things.
As a writer, Adiela's work has graced journals and anthologies globally. She has proudly represented Durban as a UNESCO City of Literature in collaborative initiatives with other literature-rich cities. She is the recipient of Fellowships and awards.
Adiela is further the Founder and Editor of the new literary journal, The Quilled Ink Review, and CEO at Quilled Ink Press. Passionate about literacy and advocacy, she also served as Vice-Chair of Litasa, KZN, the Literacy Association of South Africa.
In her leisure time she enjoys spending time with loved ones, watching movies, playing Scrabble and Chess, creating in the kitchen, creating art and crafts using mixed media, meditating, reading, chatting to the birds out in the garden, or the stray cats who have adopted her.
Discover more about Adiela's fascinating journey and creative endeavors at these links:
https://linktr.ee/Adiela.Akoo
https://linktr.ee/Quilled.Ink.Press
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Poets are cut from a tender cloth that covers our world in beauty
Adiela AkooIt is from the overflow of our cup that we give off our best to others
Adiela AkooA drop of PURE LOVE contains an ocean of transformative power ... never underestimate the ripple effect ...
Adiela AkooPoetry is intimacy between poet and reader it's revealing your truth and feeling safe acceptance in the unveiling
Adiela AkooI love listening to the sound of your heart beating, the comforting memory of a cuddling womb.
Adiela AkooI AM crazy and bold enough to think that I CAN change the world... one poem at a time...one heart at a time...
Adiela AkooSomeone mentioned your name today, took me down memory lane, to a time very much younger, a time more pure, more sane.
Adiela AkooLOST IN A QUATRAIN is the state of being deep in thought, contemplative
Adiela AkooA whipping tongue scathingly lashes a false sense of power failing to reflect that a tongue portrays the character of its possessor!
Adiela AkooWe cannot give to others what is lacking within us
Adiela AkooA scent on a breeze, a distant voice, a fated chance encounter, evoke memories my soul recalls, and yearns for me to remember, with gentle nudges unfolding in dreams, that long to wake me from slumber.
Adiela AkooYou imbibe your associations. Those people you closely connect with ... the conversations you have... all profoundly influence your thinking and actions. You slowly become the sum of the people closest to you. Choose them wisely.....
Adiela AkooHow Long? How long shall we wander through the scorching heat of this arid desert, yearning for a quenching drop from the cooling cup of the oasis? How long before all the tears we cry are enough, to turn the tide in this ocean we've bled dry? And how long before that Dove of Peace heals its broken wings, and finds a sprouting olive in this burnt forest?
Adiela AkooLook for the reflection of The Creator in every human being and in all of creation...
Adiela AkooThis World comes like a lover courting but all a seeker sees is a hunter circling its prey
Adiela AkooAloof you say? I’m so sorry if I made you feel that way. It’s really not my intention, Though the reaction is of my own invention. You see, long ago I built a wall, A defence mechanism as I recall. So for me to draw close, is still very hard, After misplacing that important trust card.
Adiela AkooLook at me, what do you see? Can you read the message, emblazoned on my skin? Look at me, can you not see? The same Hand of Creation- we're kith and kin! Please look at me, and remember what you see, for I may be gone, by the time you choose to awaken...
Adiela AkooHow shall we fill the cup of another if ours is empty? And how do we go about filling our cup? It begins with the self! Self care.Self love. Self development. Self discipline.Self knowledge... understand the world within, in order to understand the world without. Know thyself in order to know that which is greater than thyself
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