Category: Poetry
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You Feel Like Rain
You feel like rain; on my sister’s wedding day After I have put a comb in my hair (and meant to for the first time in an year) You feel like rain, on a day when my knees are covered, And the fabric that is my dress continues to french kiss the ground You feel […]
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3.3
i Love me quietly Should I love you back, Love me quietly ii I have been dreaming of things that we could be Each time, I close my eyes to the hallucinations of your whispers I want to get to know you, Simmer at the mercy of your hands and watch my body turn into […]
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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 […]
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Two Cents
My son’s 3 hair strands have finally grown into a beard. I cannot tell you how proud I am. Proud of his clean-shaven head. Proud of his skin; one that is full of melanin. Proud of a son that understands my loathing of Mohawks and shares it. I am in awe. The process of growing […]