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🌟 My poetry prints and books help seekers trust their inner voice so they can confidently live a life of their choosing.✨

✍🏽New poetry collection, “This Is Where I Find Myself” available at Sonyakayblakegallery.com

06/22/2026

✍🏽 “Riding these mean streets
we sit on plastic seats
tightening our grip on grab rails ’round tight corners…”

This excerpt from my poem “These Mean Streets” takes us on a bus ride through the inner city, where every landmark becomes a memory, every corner reveals a wound, and every mile traveled asks a deeper question:

What stories about ourselves have we inherited, and which ones are we ready to leave behind?

Performed at a recent Juneteenth spoken word event, this poem explores the journey from survival to self-determination, from inherited limitation to resurrection.

Because liberation isn’t only something that happened in history.

It’s something we choose, again and again, within ourselves.

Download the full poem for free at sonyakayblakegallery.com

Honored to share my poem These Mean Streets at the Freedom and Fire Juneteenth spoken word event. 🔥What begins as a bus ...
06/22/2026

Honored to share my poem These Mean Streets at the Freedom and Fire Juneteenth spoken word event. 🔥

What begins as a bus ride through the inner city becomes a journey through memory, inherited wounds, resilience, and ultimately resurrection.

As I read these words aloud, I was reminded that liberation is not only a historical event. It is an ongoing process of remembering who we are beneath the stories, systems, and limitations we’ve inherited.

The journey from the ghetto to greatness is not simply about moving to a different zip code.

It is about moving into a different consciousness.

Not simply to escape the mean streets.

But to revolutionize them. ✨

What are the “mean streets” in your life?The places, circumstances, beliefs, or wounds that taught you to survive when y...
06/22/2026

What are the “mean streets” in your life?

The places, circumstances, beliefs, or wounds that taught you to survive when you were created to thrive?

I recently performed my poem These Mean Streets at a Juneteenth spoken word event. It explores a bus ride through the inner city that becomes a journey through memory, struggle, resilience, and ultimately resurrection.

Because liberation is not only about where we’ve been.

It’s about who we choose to become.

You can now download and read the full poem at:

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I’d love to hear your reflections. What are you leaving behind, and what are you rising into?

06/07/2026

Congratulations to every graduate!🎓

Reflecting on graduation season, I’m reminded how early we’re taught to perform, compete, and achieve. There’s nothing wrong with ambition. But at some point, many of us discover that success alone isn’t enough. My original poem, “Work Becomes Poetic”, is about the moment pressure gives way to peace, and achievement becomes rooted in wholeness. ✨

✍🏽You can read the full poem on my “Life Becomes Poetic” blog or add the print to your collection at sonyakayblakegallery.com.

đź“–Reciting original poetry at the Center for Spiritual Living Granada Hills open mic. Eight acts, each unmistakably disti...
06/05/2026

📖Reciting original poetry at the Center for Spiritual Living Granada Hills open mic. Eight acts, each unmistakably distinct—yet all born from the same mind, bringing us all back into oneness. ♾️

🏆Behind every Emmy nomination is a story.Mine started with a $100 budget, a trapeze school, a nonprofit mission, and a l...
06/05/2026

🏆Behind every Emmy nomination is a story.

Mine started with a $100 budget, a trapeze school, a nonprofit mission, and a lot of people willing to believe in a shared vision.

A reminder that the best partnerships are built on trust, community, and showing up for others first.

Read “When I Learned to Fly” 🕊️at sonyakayblakegallery.com/blogs/lifebecomespoetic

05/22/2026

ONENESS ✨
A collective prayer, a remembering, a return.
I wrote this excerpt. Full poem co-created with beautiful souls in our Beyond Limits journey at CSL Seattle — weaving together spirit, nature, love, and the truth that we are and were never separate. 🌊🌲💫
So it is.”

🌸Life unfolds on the pages of my poetry collection, “This is Where I Find Myself.” The first time I write a poem is when...
05/19/2026

🌸Life unfolds on the pages of my poetry collection, “This is Where I Find Myself.” The first time I write a poem is when I live it. The second time is when I write it down on paper. The third time is when I read it out loud. Visit sonyakayblakegallery.com to see where I’ll be reading next. And if you feel so moved, join me at an open mic as life becomes poetic.

✍🏽“I feel like I’m a stranger in my cookie cutter life…”Sometimes people reach a point where the life that once felt com...
05/18/2026

✍🏽“I feel like I’m a stranger in my cookie cutter life…”

Sometimes people reach a point where the life that once felt comfortable suddenly feels limiting, exhausting, or out of alignment. That discomfort can be difficult — but it can also become the catalyst for meaningful change.

The poem I wrote entitled, “Time to Level Up” explores that moment of realization and the courage it takes to begin again. It’s included in my book, “This Is Where I Find Myself,” a collection of poetry on healing, growth, authenticity, and transformation.

I also shared a new blog reflection about what discomfort may be trying to teach us — and how honest conversations, supportive community, and self-awareness can help people move toward the changes they know they need to make.

You can read the reflection and learn more about the book at sonyakayblakegallery.com ✨

05/10/2026

🌷This Mother’s Day, I’ve been reflecting on the many ways women give life to the world around them.

Some mother children.
Some mother businesses, dreams, communities, and ideas.
Some nurture aging parents, beloved friends, partners, or pets.
And many of us are learning how to mother ourselves with greater tenderness and care.

My poem, Happy Mother’s Day, was published in the May issue of Porter Ranch Living Magazine, and what began as a reflection on what mothers truly want became something deeper:

a reminder that we cannot endlessly pour from an empty well.

Sometimes the greatest gift is being heard.
And sometimes the greatest act of love is finally listening to ourselves.

Wishing a beautiful Mother’s Day to all who nurture life in visible and invisible ways. 💕

Read the full reflection on the blog at the link in bio.

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