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About Me — Vanilla Being
Vanilla Being is a poet whose work is a result of thinking through life as we know it. Her poetry on Medium features observational pieces on lived experiences, poems with a philosophical question and different experiments in form, subject and style.
Vanilla Being is a pen name which I (the human writing as Vanilla) came up with when I began using Medium. I chose Vanilla for the simplicity yet universality of the flavour and the plant. The vanilla orchid is my favourite flower. Being is both a verb, noun and qualifier. It qualifies Vanilla as a being; a human being. The noun being means existence. Being is the present participle of the verb be, one of the most commonly used verbs in the English language and other language vocabularies. In philosophy, being is the material and immaterial existence of a thing. What does it all mean?
Vanilla Being is the name of a simple human being expressing their existence through poetry and poetic storytelling. I am not hiding myself behind the pen name, it is a part of myself I choose to share.
The human writing as Vanilla Being is Victoria A. I am a young Nigerian woman living in Ontario, Canada. I began writing poems when I was 10 years old and it has been my constant comfort and joy.
I am a student of Anthropology and Philosophy who recently graduated from a Bachelor of Arts program at X (Ryerson) University. I enjoy different genres of music and I am a big fan of artists like Beyoncé, Olamide, Joy Oladokun, TOBi and Tiwa Savage.
I am constantly mining my soul for words to share and those words tell a story of being.
Follow me on Instagram @thevanillabeing. Read my work here on Medium and leave a thought or clap.
Find all my work here: 2021.
