POETRY

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My poem cautioned poetry is trying to tell us what poetry really is and how it can affect lives if we let it flow unhindered and unscathed.

Poetry,
Your face
is a pillar of smoke.
Eyes blurred
Nose bleeding
A dog licking her paws.

Poetry,
your heart
is in your mouth
you are
a screaming silence
a hot stuff.

Poetry,
Your eyes
is a bridge
under construction.
Your hands
a love shown
to a roasted man
wishing for
dead stars.

Your voice
at sunrise, a guilty lad.
At dawn,an innocent belle.

Source

Poetry,
who taught you
how to challenge
the status quo?
How to
throw punches
at gentiles and jews?
who gives you a pat on the back
for jailing them with your eyes?
which little bird
told you
she takes pills..
and he breaks bottles?

Poetry,
dont let them
abuse you
for telling the truth.
mothers offering babies for sacrifice.
Pretending to mourn
with panties on their heads.

Poetry,
Who said you are malnourished?
Your thoughts mundane?
Relax at home with a drink.
Ain't you tired of speaking for them?
Creatures with burnt breasts
and wounded big toes?
If they believe
there's no justice in the jungle,
So be it.
After all, these people
escaped insanity
by the skin of their teeth.

Poetry
You have convinced me
that I was not
conceived on bed.
Now
I know
why my father's dinning table
lost one of it's legs.
Now
I know
why I love
shaking tables.

Poetry,
dear poetry,
you are my universe
a blast from the past.
The black spot on my bum.
Of all my children,
you are the best of the bunch.

when i was a little boy,
I met a woman from the north.
She introduced herself as failure.
blamed herself and fate.
for watching her family
starve to death.
Terrible thing!

I now have stronger hip bones.
know the difference between Editan and Afang.
how to swallow a hot potato
Bleeding has become normal for me.
I cried when I lost my grandma.
I still do.
My heart breaks when I see friends turn enemies.
But through all,
I discovered a worse fate.
Having no pen.
Having no voice.

Source

Here's a link to my previous entry:

First Entry

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