Black Hole Love
...Your Rain was tears on my window pane -
the first poem of yours I had seen -
pain-drops spattered a snow-blank expanse,
grief-blue with regret and what should have been.
I thought me...
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Categories:
brutalised, husband, relationship,
Form: Free verse
At The Hands Of The Untoward
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How much my heart breaks for you
A victim straight out of the womb
Life dealt you a horrendous hand
One of abuse and doom
A little boy abused from two years old
Rejected …. given to anothe...
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Categories:
brutalised, abuse, anger, friend, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Deprived Of Your Love -When My Life Changed
...Glib rhetoric concerned with striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegratin...
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Categories:
brutalised, break up, courage, cry,
Form: Free verse
Words We Cannot Escape
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“Words We Cannot Escape”
Words we can no longer speak
we tap dance over keys
bruised blackly numb
Winter palette in hand
Autumn now gone
across white-washed n...
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Categories:
brutalised, muse,
Form: Free verse
Something Beautiful
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“Something Beautiful”
Something beautiful befell my eyes
yet inside the silent child,
The Unheard, loudly cries
ugly turn away,
I hear it,
it cries in the m...
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Categories:
brutalised, muse,
Form: Free verse
Good News Is Not News
...Good news
is not news
am I a bad human
or am I just a human
safe and secure
I comfortably sit
with coffee to hand
I binge-watch a war
good news
is not news
am I a bad human
or am I...
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Categories:
brutalised, war,
Form: Free verse
Read My Mind
...If you could read my mind
Kindly give me a helping hand
For I have lost the power of speech
But I beseech of you my friend
Do not take advantage of my situation
To unleash mental terror on a ...
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Categories:
brutalised, abuse, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Darkness
...a child is snatched
life forms brutalised
earth is a dark realm
where all of us dwell
feeling fear overwhelm
within the dark abyss
when all hope seems lost
our eyes turn heavenward
but it m...
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Categories:
brutalised, dark, evil, war,
Form: Rhyme
It My Birthday Today
...It my birthday today
I give thanks to God
For walking my ways with Me
It has never been easier
If I was ignorant of nature
Am happy am in peace
With life
So I gave thanks to God
To se...
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Categories:
brutalised, africa, birthday, confidence, courage,
Form: Epic
Where Is the Conscience of the World
...Were is the conscience of the world
The world should rise
And embrace peace
We are tired of dying
We are tired of oppression
We are not giving up our land
We are ready to defend our
Our di...
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Categories:
brutalised, africa, community, confusion, deep,
Form: Epic
The Voice of the Oppressed
...The grandeur of my life are elusive
Mine ain't melioration; it's oppression
My free life is cramped by chains of servitude
And shout out loud I mustn't
Because even the power of my tongue is tie...
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Categories:
brutalised, bullying, corruption, discrimination, political,
Form: Political Verse
No Important Man Than a Soldier
...Since my birth I was wondering
Who is the important man on earth
Yes, a mother is an important person on earth
But she is not a man.
Which role should I play on earth for me to labelled as an i...
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Categories:
brutalised, caregiving, dedication, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Blank verse
Landscape Destruction
...Landscapes of brutalised wilderness where trees stood
No amount of greed should ever see such destruction of wood
We have to resolve to live a life of nurture not simply of destruction...
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Categories:
brutalised, earth, tree,
Form: Sijo
Who Was the Witness
...who was the witness
another revolution is on again
let's go out there to fight for
our right
lets go out there to catch out
freedom
we can't just sit and speak
in close doors any more
i...
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Categories:
brutalised, absence, africa, betrayal, cheer
Form: Epic
No One Cares
...no one cares
looking around the world
you will realise
we are yet to live up Africans
for always we are suppressed
oppressed and brutalised
home and abroad we face
same torture
we have lon...
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Categories:
brutalised, abuse, africa, corruption, dedication,
Form: Epic
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