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Some days

Poetry by Jay Kophy you're allowed to have days when you feel like dust is the only thing you inhale when you draw breath. when you feel like you've been carrying a cemetery on your tongue. because that is where you always bury your voice. and your eyes are filled...
April 27, 2019

Whisperers Of Life

Poetry by Nana Bayin Asaam My ears have a story to tell They have heard and fed from the well of words My eyes have sucked in the smoke of images And overwhelmed by the multitude it consumes. I rise to the sound of blasting radios across the compound Singing...
April 21, 2019

To The Double ‘U’

Poetry by Kwame Abrantipa  Women shouldn't read this poem. She; Shouldn't breathe Shouldn't sigh Shouldn't ask why Shouldn't smile Shouldn't kiss a woman Shouldn't found a religion or want sex or invent anything her husband can't take credit for and should be mad only at herself for it. Women; Should...
April 19, 2019

Flashback

Poetry by Sena Cobblah I wish I could go back To her year of firsts When she wore puffs when she first liked a boy Or coated her lips with shea butter The very first turban she tied How happy she was with her friends How the heat from firewood...
April 11, 2019
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