Angst Africa Poems

Only bold  and  open  words  free verse...

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May We Make Love At The War Front?
May I Know You While Iron Leads Flies Over Our Heads?
May I Know Why Our Bodies Tangle In...

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Birthday feelings
Another year is back no longer can leapfrog this day
Where my body squeals on me from time to time
Melanin, flawless, caramel skin transparent
for you...

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Some call me Majnun
Unpredictable Monsoon
When Eye Step In, Eye read the room
You don't know me, so don't assume
Enlightened Eye rise, Illuminated Eye bloom....

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Slavery is not the end of atrocities 
Suffered by minority communities
The every day systematic sway
Of bricks piled against you like
A wall of pain
So many bricks
The...

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My eyes grow heavy with the salty water that flows
But for whom do I cry?
As the water flows from my eyes 
Along the landscape of...

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1
Autumn, harmattan
—forest everywhere 
births green or rust hue

2
Harmattan
—my lips are eager
to map the season

3
Fog-ensnared ocean:
fishermen gasp
in the net of harmattan 


©Nket Godwin...

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Call me what I am!!
Do not call me NI**ER !!
Call WE Niger 
Call We Nigerian 
Call  WE  AFRICAN!!
Call We dirty! Yeah! Right!
Call we...

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Mercury
An Angel Having Recently Visited You
Sent back Metal Film
of Your Ancient shores
Cratered silver with loneliness

the Humming of Silver Tides
Or discs bent longingly
With long lonely empty...

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Near the seashore,where tides bounce
and soothing zephyrs embrace
I see someone like you, 
playing voilin amid dancing seagulls

everything falls into the lap of serenity
 It seems...

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I had the strangest of dreams 
They happend in the land overseas 
Usually called the land of the free
Even though I have never been 
There...

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I
Hope dances in sparkling terms

II
Dashed justice equals ascerbic lives

III
Hope sparkles like false diamonds in South Africa...

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It's just a poem 

Oft I write about heartbroken,
When I haven't gone through one.
How luxury and beautiful love could be; I scribed, 
but never been...

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with twittering,tweeting and chirps of chiffchaff
a sublime chime of hope resurrects inside

i,a wild rose,somewhere in the pastures grown
i grow,i alter every day,every hour and minute

Some...

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Taxi violances 
Many taxi owners 
Are always murdered 
For different reasons 
In their taxi industry, 
Crime prevention securities
At many ranks and 
Houses of taxi owners...

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