Category: Poetry
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To Be A Woman | by @NyokabiWainaina
To be a woman is.. To breath quietly,
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Becoming | @gufydox
Young, I have lived this life with half smiles full frowns and numb fingers. I have imagined dragons and flown on backs Of fairies every time I put tooth under pillow. Those nights were full of colour Makes me want to be child again. To run around naked, Tempting the cold weather to send flu […]
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Too Much, Too Fast | @keedjo
It’s either love out loud, or cold shoulders from me It’s a bear hug or a handshake It’s my tongue down your throat or a half-ass look in your direction It’s too much- for me I want you, a little but in a big way I want to steal your soul by kissing you all […]
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What Will You Do? | By @NyokabiWainaina
When you are too scared to breathe,
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Riot In My Brain
I have seen God in places holy people shouldn’t frequent.
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Second First Date | by @sofaphilosopher
An awkward silence hangs between us, a pregnant silence which never precipitates. Like storm clouds gathering only to dissipate. The conversation moves along haltingly you shift, uneasy, in your chair. You clear your throat; self-consciously you pat your perfect hair. I don’t know who you are I who once knew you so well – Now […]
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Know You | by @Sofaphilosopher
The night before we’ll buy supplies. We’ll start out very early. We’ll drive off into the sunrise for somewhere quaint and distant; somewhere quaint, distant and lonely. We’ll park somewhere off the road, and leave our cellphones in the car – the world can make do without us for a little while. We’ll get the […]
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Ships Have Been Wrecked Here |By @kelvinKaesa
There will be days like this; She will hold you hostage by the curve of her smile She will say “I love you” and mean it with her every breathe; Like a sufi poet Like the walls of a cave giving in she will break at your lips She will lay her soul at the […]