Dead by day Alive by night. Nocturnal beast of pleasure And leisure. Kpa!kpa!kpa! Gun shots in the air. They’ve come for the hoodlums’ lair. Fill the vans with them, get some ransom, Send them back to their ill ways. Two brothel inmates fighting. One for her pay. One for him to stay. Cling to my […]
Poetry – Back To Town Slum.
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Poetry- Death Like A Poetry.
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Roses are red Violets are blue This is a letter To you, mum Dear Mother, March 21st, Took the shape of a raven Cold and concrete The mood, a dirge As you lamented The death of Adanne Your life’s support, My twin sister. For me, It was a ballad With chants and refrains of ‘ […]
Poetry – My Queen
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My Queen, the chair she sat on like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble, where the glass held up by standards wrought with fruited vines from which a golden Cupid-on peeped out, She shines with glorious bright diamonds Unstopped, lurked her strange fragrance, Drowning the odour stirred by the air. Brittle spoken words melt my hearts […]
Poetry – A ‘Mad’ Man’s Soliloquy.
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I am not the crazy one, you are. You think I don’t reason too? You always look down on me. I am the ‘insane’ one you say. My last bath was sponsored by heaven’s showers. Yes, I smell as i look. I know I’ve lost my mind. Yet in my lost mind I find peace […]
Poetry – If You Must Eat A Frog, Eat A Fat One.
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If you must rob, Then rob a bank So that it will be a one-time deal. If you must fight, Then beat him until he dies So that he won’t try to revenge afterwards. If you must take lollipops, Take the sweetest So that if tomorrow you have diabetes or tooth decay, You will know […]
Poetry – My Name Is Liberty
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Sailing on the deep-blue sea of serenity, Surrounded by nature’s own comfort, Relishing the warmth of affection, Bathing in the euphoria of care. On eagles’ wings, soaring higher and higher, Lost to the waves of unbridled passion, Captivated by the sensation of glorious release. A freedom, a pellucid deliverance, by a shiny knight, A timely […]
Poetry – To Have And To Hold
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Prithee my heart To have and to hold: your – Loves’ gesture gaze, upon my deep-sunken eye For your beauty’s rose that never die Which my heart saw even Cupid couldn’t deny. Change thy thoughts of lovelorn taste For my mind won’t change my heart’s pace Nor loose possession of that fair thou hath; The […]