Past Portentous Futures
...My 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...
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Categories:
hotcake, beauty, freedom, integrity, life,
Form: Free verse
Kittiwake
...KITTIWAKE
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...
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Categories:
hotcake, africa, betrayal, corruption, crazy,
Form: Free verse
A Bitter Spree
...Pale 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
th...
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Categories:
hotcake, love
Form: Monorhyme