The Chocolate Cake
...The first chocolate cake you remember-
The one I brought for you...
I baked it with so much love,
Glazed it with dark chocolate,
As dense as my affection for you.
Next morning with a tensed move...
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Categories:
annan, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Zul-Qarnain these days as a patsy in Babylon
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Tim Horton, Tim Janis
Kofi Annan, In a scaffold that knots a shoeless
You are mincing me on a cutting board, these days
In pounds per pounding heart , with knives and bleesed hone
You were a f...
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Categories:
annan, art,
Form: Epic
My Africa
...Africa!Africa
My Africa
A proud land of our forefathers
Africa my jewel
Your recipes of courage has been pass from generation to generation
A continent carved out of glory
A land blessed w...
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Categories:
annan, africa, black love, celebration,
Form: Narrative
Is There No Place For Us
...Is there no place for us ?
In this world of work and fuss ?
We came to fulfil our dreams
Leaving our noble motherland with goodbye tear streams
We are prisoners of a dark dank cell called race
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Categories:
annan, race, racism,
Form: I do not know?
The Sun of Africa
...He sits down,
In the farthest forlorn corner
Of the mud walled cracked windowless room,
The teacher calls it classroom,
the dictionary says otherwise.
He knows many a people,
Prominent and lo...
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Categories:
annan, africa
Form: ABC
Syrian Graveyard
...Unnumbered human corpses
mutilated and spread
like illegally-shot elephants in Waza Park!
From ‘man know thyself’
to ‘man hates himself’-
humans mutilate humans!
Future-bound glorious infants,
feebl...
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Categories:
annan, war,
Form: Verse
And Now the Policeman Picks Up His Club
...uncle sam took a moment to sit down
at the diner counter & shove a couple more
doughnuts down his gullet,
but don’t you worry,
now that Kofi Annan has thrown in the towel,
the big ****ing bully of th...
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Categories:
annan, life,
Form: Free verse
Eli and Oskar
...eli & oskar
fullända ett band mellan två individer
de går ut i natten
de har varandras sällskap skull och
kön, som belastning som kan förstöra så många
helt enkelt inte in i denna ekvation ---
hon g...
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Categories:
annan, life,
Form: Free verse