Contend

Flowers spend their entire lives
growing toward the sun.

I watch the daisies 
guarding my front porch 
stand full-faced & absurd 
all day.

I’ve seen whole flowerbeds 
recklessly misplaced in the shade 
& growing parallel to the ground.

Making themselves ridiculous 
for the sake of surviving.






Amanda Oaks is a digital crusader slogging away to abolish the practice of creatives writing their own bios in the third person. Hi, I'm Amanda Oaks, creative minx, rock-n-roll hippie mama, poet, hoop dancer, feminist, multi-passionate solopreneur, creator of Words Dance Poetry Magazine & enabler at Kind Over Matter. Stalk here: AmandaOaks.com