Best Hotcake Poems
KittiwakeKITTIWAKE
CH: Kittiwake, kittiwake Naija. 2ce
Old man na snake
Young man na fake
Looking for what to rake
CH: Kittiwake...Naija. 2ce
Overtake all overtake
My people awake
Make no mistake
The blows not for our sake
The reason for this quake
Is just the biggest cake
CH: Kittiwake... Naija. 2ce
Overtake all overtake
Waterman for shortcake
Rockman for cheesecake
Water...
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Categories:
hotcake, africa, betrayal, corruption, crazy,
Form:
Free verse
A Bitter SpreePale turned the bow that
blest the sky
all that was blue at dusk...
did fly,
my mind is blurred and
now I cry:
the mud is dry, the mud is
dry.
Hope was lost within isles
and hills
the water splatters on me
hot chills
felt in a rush, craving...
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Categories:
hotcake, love
Form:
Monorhyme
Past Portentous FuturesMy past,
part of this present,
yet not desperately all
or I live too mortally
in our past;
still breathing
heart beating
but no other present signs
of hopeful life.
Just so,
this present
part of our future,
yet not all,
Or we have already died
without our Great Promise;
reluctantly
still shallow breathing
heart dissonantly beating
yet without future active...
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Categories:
hotcake, beauty, freedom, integrity, life,
Form:
Free verse