Stanza & Story

11/29/2025

Big update: GoodPoetry is now Stanza & Story 🎉

I’m bringing everything together in one place—poems, stories, speeches, and essays from voices like Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ida B. Wells, and more.

Same curator (me, Teyuna/T-Darris), same heart, new name.

Visit the new home here: StanzaAndStory.com

http://stanzaandstory.com/2025/11/28/introducing-stanza-story/

GoodPoetry has a new name. Stanza & Story is the next chapter of this work: one home for poetry and prose, rooted in faith, Black history, and classic literature in the public domain. If you ca…

08/29/2025

Up, up, and away! Stevenson’s “The Swing” captures the pure joy of childhood play and the freedom of seeing the world from above. A timeless poem with a fresh companion illustration.

The poem by Robert Louis Stevenson captures the joy of childhood play, specifically the exhilaration of swinging high in the air. It conveys a sense of freedom and wonder as the child experiences t…

09/01/2024

Exciting News! 🎉

I finally took the leap and my first on Amazon under my pseudonym, Margalo Meeks.

This is the first installment in a series of that I wrote back when I was in capturing the thoughts and reflections of those formative years.

👉👉👉The were created by Ms. Taki Richards whose work brought these poems to life❤️🤗👈👈👈 Thank you, Taki❤️!

When a friend asked me, "What’s it about?" I simply said, "A bunch of stuff that I wrote from my heart." 💖

Stuff I Wrote From My Heart: Part One: The Ingenue is now available as an for $3.99. I’d love for you to check it out and share your thoughts!👉 https://a.co/d/31HLhzT

Thank you all for your support on this journey! 📚✨

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Teyuna Darris

Stuff I Wrote From My Heart: Part One: The Ingenue

07/03/2024

Here's #2! It's entitled, "My Poetical Side". I wrote this poem when I was circa 15 or 16 years old. The illustration is by Ms. Taki Richards. Taki is an outstanding multimedia artist!

This is page 6 of my , entitled, "Stuff I Wrote From My Heart". For some reason, I'm finally ready to publish it.

Please give your honest criticism about my poem. And, comments like, "Well, I don't know because I don't really read poetry" DO NOT work. Just read it and tell me what you think.

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Curating Poetry & Prose

07/02/2024

So... I was supposed to this yesterday (which ended 17 minutes ago), but I had a late start. But, here's my poem that I wrote as a part of a daily poem writing in July 2024. Please feel free to leave your honest opinion and criticism. And, comments like "I don't really know how to read poetry" do not count because all you have to do is read the poem. Nothing fancy--- I promise. So, here's my poem that should have been published on July 1st, 2024:

"I am a poet"

I write words that people want to say
and don't want to say
Sometimes, I think about the ways the words make me/us/them feel:
sometimes, I don't

I try to put together just the right words, [and] the write words to say
And, other times, I write nothing and say what I say from my heart and not my mind

And, sometimes I say what I say from my mind and not my heart
Still, I say what I say with the meaning that I meant to say it with

In rhymes and pentameters and,
without metaphor and imagery:
But, sometimes, with them

No particular order, or structure (i.e., free form)
And, certainly, in ABA and ABC order
And as cinquains and Haikus
And, as traditional and as well-metered and well-structure verse.

Yes, I write poems and you may or might not like them/readthem/knowthem

I write poems because

I am a poet.

by Teyuna Darris

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Curating Poetry & Prose

07/02/2024

https://goodpoetry.org/2024/07/01/a-patriotic-creed/

Photo by Sharefaith on Pexels.com by Edgar Allen Guest (1881 – 1959) To serve my country day by day At any humble post I may; To honor and respect her Flag, To live the traits of which I brag…

07/02/2024

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09/26/2023

"The " from GoodPoetry. This first features my poet--- . Sharing about the extraordinary lives of some wonderful poets in 100 words, or less.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QB6c-dETWo

Listen to 's Mini Bio Series featuring short biographies of poets from around the world and from different time periods in history. This episo...

07/04/2023

"I hear America Singing" by .

Happy , !

by Walt Whitman I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or bea…