Aliada Duncan
Aliada Duncan was born in Beaufort, SC in 1992 and relocated to Columbia in 2008. A graduate of Limestone College, she will be graduating this year with an MSW from Winthrop University.
Duncan says she began writing at the age of thirteen. “Writing was a way for me to express myself. My pre-teen and teen years were tough. I started off writing poems. I was most inspired by Langston Hughes.”
Duncan says, “I’ve self-published six books thus far in total. My first book, Wordplay: A Potion Name Poetry was officially my introduction to the world of writing. It was composed of poems that I had written throughout the years.”
Her other publications include Gumbo: A Potent Poetry and Parables, a novella titled Satan, You Can’t Have My Marriage, two books of erotica titled Secrets Under My tongue and Flames: Magic at Midnight; and her most recent book is, Tongues: Enter My Ethos. All have been self-published and are available from Amazon.
Duncan started her own business in June of 2020, Anu Vision LLC and says, “I’ve been busy with getting that off the ground. I haven’t written in a while; however, you haven’t seen the last of me.”
And here’s a sample of Duncan’s work:
The G.O.A.T Chronicles
I am God frequency energy
The inner-G in me is key to immortality
What I am relaying is a result of what I am displaying
Slaying the odds with my warmest regards
I am the essence of this message
I have opened a portal and undefeated by mortals
In totality and in total
Whether local or worldwide, my illumination, you just can’t hide
Fruitful and forbidden, my power cannot be hidden
With pride and stride, I conquered the battles presented to me
Now they realize that my presence is a present
I am King to the peasants
Power I devour, it’s what I represent
I ascend and send solutions for my revolution
I descend and suspend executions of my evolution
Consistency is infinitely embedded inside of me
My levels is hard to reach, hard to sustain
My reign on the throne is solidified
My magnetism defies the isms
My prism holds the light—
It cannot be dimmed, try as you might
I have summoned my sanctuary
Building contrary to what was meant to bury, me
You’re not even worth my stardust
I am governed by the divine
This brilliance is my shrine
This is the rhythm, this is the rhyme
My potency should be a crime
The G.O.A.T— Greatest of all time