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Literary Purveyor Jun 27, 2025

New at The Literary Purveyor
Shanai Williams’ latest poem, “Dear Love, (Love is Always),” is a soft, searching conversation with Love itself—a guardian, a witness, a lifeline. What if “just keep going” is Love’s most enduring refrain?

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Dear Love, (Love is Always) – A Poem by Shanai Williams | The Literary Purveyor

n Dear Love, (Love is Always), poet Shanai Williams pens a moving dialogue with Love as presence, guide, and origin. Read this intimate meditation on endurance, trust, and the divine act of returning to oneself.

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Literary Purveyor May 5, 2025

📝 New poem drop: Displaced by Shanai Williams.

What does it mean to exist where you’re not allowed to belong?
To live in bags. To silence your grief. To smile when you want to scream.
This is not just displacement—it’s erasure.

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Displaced: A Poem on Black and other Displacement, Erasure, and Survival by Shanai Williams

In her haunting poem Displaced, Shanai Williams explores the quiet violence of not belonging—living in bags, silencing grief, and moving through spaces where you're not allowed to exist. A powerful reflection on displacement, survival, and erasure.

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Literary Purveyor Apr 4, 2025

📝 New poem drop: FORGIVENESS by Shanai Williams.
Sometimes healing means revisiting the hurt. Sometimes forgiveness isn’t a gift—it’s a boundary you build.
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https://theliterarypurveyor.com/2025/04/04/forgiveness/

Forgiveness

Its hurts me to know I’ve hurt others.Some nights I sleep great.And on others I lie awake,Knowing there are people Who have collected Wounds and Scars I cannotRetrieveI cannot change their hurt.I c…

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Literary Purveyor Dec 9, 2024

Shanai Williams' "Wrong Place, Wrong Time, just...wrong" explores the raw emotions of a relationship caught in the wrong. #Poetry #ShanaiWilliams #Relationships

https://theliterarypurveyor.com/2024/12/09/wrong-place-wrong-time-just-wrong/