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Dr. Pearline Sturdivant is a resilient being. She is a wife, mother, and Memom. Her love for uplifting others, through spoken word poetry, came out of the issues of life. She is a graduate of Temple University’s College of Education where she obtained her doctorate degree. Just as Langston Hughes, she is a graduate of Lincoln University. Her post secondary pursuit started at Temple University’s Fox School of Business.

  January 2022     2 years ago

Submitted Poems 2 total

Get Up

Every aspect of your soul is shattered.
Your very being is sensitive and broken.
Getting up from ashes seems impossible to you....Haaaa....So you think...
From the ruins of life’s circumstances get up!
From the devastation of the brokenness get...

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Overcomer

Overcomer
They counted you out .
They said you were the product of sorrow.
They isolated you.
But it was for the good.
In the storm you grew stronger.
In the crisis you became a Pearl, a precious gem.
You are an overcomer.
You are the song...

by Dr. Pearline Sturdivant

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