Category: Poems
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#NatureSpeaks: 30 Poems in 30 Days – Day 1: Hot Ashes, by Benjamin Nambu
These same streets of loveYou once roamedWith your head bowedStewing in the hot ashesOf burnt hopesIn these same streetsYou shall walk againHead raisedAs if to see what the narrow pathAnd heat were trying to revealLessons and blessings, nestlingIn ashes Hot Ashes was inspired by the poem Butterfly Love. You can read more of Benjamin Nambu’s…
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One sea, Two scenes
Birds on a seashoreTweeting gleefully, like kids on a seesawFamiliar notes, like those of a theme songPositive vibes, for the weak and strong Waves, heaving like a sleeping dragonIts patience, creaking like a weeping wagonFuming, like a seething PythonAll its theatrics, fleeting, bygone https://amanpan.blog/2022/09/20/moonwashed-weekly-prompt-theatrics-september-20-2022/
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How does it feel?
What does it meanto be a mother? To what can labor pains be comparedfor a man to understand? How does it feelto mother ingratitude,to raise an ungrateful child? How does it feelafter 9 monthsof 9 hellsto be unwelcomed homeby an abusive husband? How does a mother feelseeing her childthat reminds herof how far they bothhave…
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Festival of dreams
Inhabitants of villages in the darknessof a dark continentof black peoplewith dark hopesin the city of lights for the first timethe mesmerizing effectsmake a people feel guiltyfor staining the bedazzling sightwith their inferior skin and identitythey wonderif there’s space in the lightfor the blacksomewhere in the massesstands a little black boyblind to critics, racists,politricks,politics, and…
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Eighteen Long Years ( Published at MasticadoresUSA )
I am pleased to announce that my poem “Eighteen Long Years” has been published at MasticadoresUSA. I would like to thank Gabriella Marie Milton and the team at MasticadoresUSA for showcasing my piece. Special thanks to Grace Y. Estevez ( GraceoftheSun ) Here’s the link to the poem: https://wp.me/pbttrx-18O
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seventies
born in the ninetiesattached to anything antiquewatching a music video of the 70sa disco in Cape Towndazzling streets, hypnotizing sounds of artists, young, gifted, and blackmusicians with incredible knackfor releasing subtly lustful trackstracks on weedfor dancers on heat vanityinsanityof the seventiesfantasies ofa nineties born https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2022/09/12/what-do-you-see-151-september-12-2022/
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Motives
Sieving my motives Saturated with subtle pride Strong-scented self-centeredness and the like Stuck to my intentions like emojis Written for RXC:PROMPT #247, hosted by Reena
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Evening
An audience of trees and wild beasts Sit in darkness Watching the lit giant sky screen As rafts of gilded clouds Waft towards the blazing sun Like aircraft returning To a warship https://amanpan.blog/2022/09/06/moonwashed-challenge-gilded-september-6-2022/
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Like men that dreamed
Is this Salemor another Harlem?Looks like a priest in a frockOnce stood there, flocked By masses seeking greener pasturesBattling cold, hunger and fracturesFrom ethnic clashesAnd backlashes The stones there, perhaps for namesThat bravely fought for their fameMaybe this ground symbolized toil, screamsLoss, and the fulfilment of long lost dreams https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/
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It’s great to be alive
The birds rise in unison Hugging and hooting the arriving winds They skate on the soft south winds Across the shimmering river below Some of them occasionally pooping Into vantage points in the river As the inspiration within guides Living their life mission Doodled into their genes It’s great to be alive!
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