Let someone tell me, how best they could be burst, these banks of rubbish, where every penny vanishes, where the age-long bounty plunges into the abyss of the filthy pit. Let me with words Pouring out of my pen decipher the code, leading to the vault and break open, our luxuries, our bounties, our freedom, […]
Poetry – Bloated Tummies
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Poetry – Cycle
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The woman tills the ground And the baby on her back Tethered, a boat to shore, safe, Dreaming of eating, The greening of teeth. The climbing of trees, Catching butterflies newly hatched, Winging into the sun drenched afternoon, Perching on mangoes yellowing, falling off. Unasked for bounties To sup a conference of earthworms And that […]
Poetry – Pole Dancing For Maturity
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I stand before you naked. Uneasy as I slowly slip of my ambitions to see the delight of prejudice on your face. A peel of the skin of dreams I once wore In exchange for your overcoat of sadness and depression, The ink covered paper of my goals much like my innocence is creased too, […]
Poetry – The Uncertain Metro
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I listen. As the continuous gentle hums and chugs of the locomotor begin to become a sweet, sonorous symphony in my ear. I watch. As the emptiness outside my window escapes my eyesight and returns, going and coming simultaneously. I remember. My years as they came and went continuously and as the things I once […]
Poetry – The Mad Man
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Here he comes; the king of his world, covered in cheap regalia, made with waste materials With an aura of stench, Piercing through the nostrils of men, he treads and steps; ‘I’m a king’, he laughs with himself You could hear the clanging of cans, accompanied with the tinkling of glass; as he moves in […]
Poetry – ETIQUETTE
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The queue seems endless, but the people all waited In the hot scorching sun, they all stood, burnt Then came a man tanned, who wouldn’t wait for his turn Off he went to the front, not minding what they thought They rushed at him in anger, and poof! he went for cover Hiding, he stood […]
Poetry – Graffiti Love
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Have you ever spied pearls dance in the flames, like a blazing puma wooing its she? or seen spoken words swim across the airs. then maybe you would never wholly understand, how you made me feel. or the nights I counted the ways I loved you thus If I hiccup when your arms master the […]