Best Otherness Poems

"Otherness, the dichotemy dissected"

The facial surface
stitched tight 
photosynthesis pares
celluloid divisions
their inquisition solitary
and thickly wading 
shallow and elementary 
the dichotomy mercilessly
shaved whittle thin
by others’ strangeness 

the...

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I believe that long ago, the universe’s most artistic landscaper mixed woodlands with tropics, mountains with heaths, and streams with waterfalls that were next blended...

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The Islanders


We live in an Island
Surrounded by water
Both murky and crystalline
In water we put our trust
To protect us 
From the outsiders
Our lives are internalised
We become...

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A kind of cultural sensitivity,
that strengthens discovery; a space
for identity and history.

  It’s a style of thought,
  chosen to highlight its core;
 ...

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In my eighteenth Spring, strangers used brotherhood as decorative ribbons to gift me a feel and a truth that have staid my life long. ...

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A glass of wine 

This is ridiculous it has no name engulfed by sadness, two bottles of wine and cigarettes 
and I’m drowning. Tomorrow no...

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Described as a pillar of commitment
in relationships between hosts and guests
hospitality plays the major role
in making Scriptures speak to life situations.

The biblical recounts about these...

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I began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I...

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Moonbeam’s angelic gazes and frosty phrases
chill woven, dreamy, nature-luxurious laces,
iced in vibrant, wonderland prized traces,
to brighten all young and old human faces.

Sparkles of brightly twinkling...

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"The Velvet Echo" 

Lives 
eclipse

one comes in
the other out

passing light
in empty hallways

corridors of subversive
romantic notions 

strange singing, 
the sounding lifts 

waves 
enticing,

smiles curiously 
unsure, in...

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I know the game of exclusion,
have played it all my life and
now I've mastered it,
a talent to brag about.

Exclusion from normality,
the joy of inclusion.
Exclusion from...

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This spot spans the world in its entirety
and reaches through time with magnetized appendages,
in such ardent yearning
that it cracks the Earth like an egg and...

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Let us dine on sugar-spun moonlight: 
an exquisite treat that
Fills our bellies and sticks to our teeth,
The nostalgic taste of White Rabbit candy,
Creamily sweet, wrapped...

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The embedded curse 
of a roving planet, brings
out a story of otherness
versus loneliness.

Adultery was on cards.
An issue was rising 
between the string 
and the bullet.

Let...

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It is a Sunday morning.

The day before was still,

yet eventful and surprising:

sacredness met in holy places

and inspired persons.

Petrified trees and slave traders’ bedrooms;

cattle grazing and...

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