Pamphlets Poems - Poems about Pamphlets

Curriculum Vitae

...They taught us to dissect frogs,
but not the feeling of being dissected.
We memorized the bones of empires,
but no one named the fracture in our own spines.

We wake up with hearts in our throat...

IN THE DARKNESS OF IMPERIALISM

...I was born in a banana republic,
Between the carnivorous chains of Françafrique,
In an open-air dumpster,
Where tyranny, barbarity, and savagery speak with arrogance.
I am perfumed with all the n...

DUSTY POET

...DUSTY POET

Dust before donkey doomed 
            a wicked whirlwind 
grains of wisdom wrinkle 
           sand webs 
              dust devitalise land 
here there everywhere nowhere 
     ...

In Summer

...In Summer

In summer, Jerry cans yearn to 
host toffee apple parties, man holes 
trick lost drivers, urine people 
wear funny hats 
about, pine cones get spat on by 
urchins, flags go into a 
...

Broom

...Broom

The involvement of
the outside sweeping broom in the 
sequence of 
poetry pamphlets organising into 
piles based on 
themes extends the period or 
condition of 
Kookaburra life.
...

In a World Where I Do Not Exist

...There are visions roving inside my head 
of a time and place where perhaps I once lived.
But how do I know of those worldly things
if I no longer exist?  I must question if I ever did.
I am off k...

Advanced Degree In Plagiarism From Tromp University

...These days, the most sought out advanced degree
In Extreme Higher Education is in Plagiarism.
A student can also minor in Overt Racism,
Sexism, Misogyny, Stupidity, and Bigotry.
Help wanted signs...

Empty

...It’s cold as I’m waiting.
Then it’s numb.
Nothing is painful in here.
It’s just…
As I’m in the waiting room.
I’m bored as I stare at smiling magazines.
Then at the pamphlets that will never hel...

sykehus

...Sykehus 

The old hospital in the town center 
stark and unpainted
Dotted about in the near vicinity 
Funeral homes look like pearls 
around an elderly lady's neck  
at every election cycle th...

IT s THE LITTLE THINGS LIKE TIM TAMS

...it’s the little things like tim tams.
having gotten my attention, the box
hops into my shopping cart, but not
before I cartwheel and squeal, certain
that one of the poets has nurtured
my senses ...

almost showed off

...(There’s a song for this: ‘Confessions’ by Sudan Archives)

I remember it like it was yesterday (it was yesterday).

I arrived on a cool (42°f), blindingly sunny New Haven afternoon. It was as if...

POWERFUL SILENT SPEECH

...Where is humanity? 
as Congolese players,
stuffs and fanatics 
were about to sing
their national anthem 
at Afcon tournament,
they put their right hands 
on their mouths
to express the silenc...

The Breakfast Program and Me Targeted by Donald Trump face

...It was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold  
civil rights riots plagued my little brown mind sir...

Poetic Victims of Circumstance

..."Cruel birds—ravens—but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness."
- Hannah Kent


My lover's demons are like ravenous ravens.
Her love is a hand...

Arctic Afterglow

...

When the 
glacial sun slips 
in softened womb 
of the scarlet 
spheres at dusk, 
yearning for 
hibernal rebirth 
as a lustrous 
morning star, 
it radiates 
golden beams 
like lakes...

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