A Makerere Student, Her Snake, Her Piper, and a Doctor
...This poem is featured in Dr. Ivan Edwards' upcoming anthology, Resonance of the Soul: Flowers and Harmonics, published by IEME LLC. The book will be available in e-book, softcover, and hardcover form...
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Categories:
agama, anxiety, depression, family, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Big Or Little Hammer
...Who’s been struck with even little hammer
And his lips failed to curses yammer:
“Son-of-a-” not part of grammar:
For a blow, mortal, control stammer?
Struck with a big or a little hammer!
One...
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Categories:
agama, bullying, confusion, cry, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Follow the Scent
...Neither Agama nor Nigama
No mind games no enigma
All that it takes
Is to conditioning forsake
Layer by layer
Erasing delusion that hovers
Manifesting as contraction
Life negation
Smiling ...
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Categories:
agama, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Forever
...One day I'll be preserved in sands of time;
glaring into diamond rays—white lights
the earth dissolves my flesh to fertile dust;
embeds treasures—secrets in a crackled skull
Metamorphosis—in th...
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Categories:
agama, bereavement, courage, death, death
Form: Ballad
Patriotic Parenting
...Parents
exercising totalitarian rights
to abuse and neglect WinWin family governance resolutions
for restoring peace with EarthJustice climates,
develop unfortunate children
perpetually longing
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Categories:
agama, earth, health, humor, imagery,
Form: Political Verse
Maranao Poem - Osaynko Kathapar
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~ Osaynko kathapar ~
Pamagosayn ko kon
so manga sarat a sorot
a okit ka thiwalaya
a ino bala sa tapar
a kambangonan sa walay...
Paganay na kataid
ikadowa na tamok
ikatlo na ban'sa
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Categories:
agama, analogy, beautiful,
Form: List
A Dance of No Tune
...Twisting up my body emboldened
Hyping my spirit to Planet 9
Thrusting gently my soul to an off beat
Jerking up my feet in no fete
Throwing hands in the air
Moving my carcass to an unheard hurl...
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Categories:
agama, angst, anniversary, history, people,
Form: Free verse
In My Dream . . . (For Hon. Ali M.O Ayodeji)
...The dream was of me
I dreamt off me in my dream
It was fearfully dreadful a dream
Long ago was the day of my last dream
Before the dream that came knocking on me
Startled still, as I opened up m...
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Categories:
agama, angst, imagination, life, passion,
Form: Free verse
The Men In Trance
...Snoring bush pig
Relishing in reverie like a hog
Trudge on day-dreaming
Wandering beyond yonder
Think of no blunder in wonder-trance
Junking the Fourth Estate
Jumping at the Fifth Columnist ...
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Categories:
agama, family, passion, people, men,
Form: I do not know?