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Best Backwardness Poems


Backwardness
life today lived
in reverse gear
towards stone ages...

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Categories: backwardness, change, satire,
Form: Triolet
Twisted World
We live in a world 
Where all things are moving
Where nothing halts
Where nothing turns back
Where all that it is is noise

We live in a world
Broken souls grace the streets
Hopeless lives is all that it is
Drive for money consumes minds
Shuttered dreams we walk on

We live in...

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Categories: backwardness, africa, anger, anxiety, christian,
Form: Prose
Ignoramus Life Limbo
Mwizi! Mwizi! Mwizi!
Shika uyooooo
2am habitual
I toss my sheets stand by the window
They all speak at once
''Achomweee....''
I wear my walkies and switch my lights

I scrunch my nose
Freezing outside
Ni nani?
My anxiety grows
I join the mob
Fury is forehead engraved
Rusty smells of pangas and rakes and jembes 
Ticklish breeze...

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Categories: backwardness, africa, anger, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Burlesque

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