A Review of Poetry Potion: On Being Human // 2013.01

The world of Poetry is like the world of Jazz. There are multiple layers of nuanced existentialisms, familiar phrases, essentialist expressions and traditions within mores and cultural pros and cons. There are also parallel universes or multi-verses, literal meanings and...

Human vs Raven by Mpho Malepa

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] This morning on my way to work I came across a familiar picture that I had not taken into serious account up until this day. I saw how poverty De-humanizes one and brings them to a point...

Mortal by Charl Landsberg

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Make all the most of this, my friend For all you know will pass Your kith, your kin and even you Will sink beneath the grass Your hopes, your dreams, are meaningless When death knocks at your...

On Being Human by Glodina

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] From that first moment when two cells collide, When body, soul and spirit find their way to each other, When from more than a homeostatic collection of DNA, organs and systems we spring forth, When Humanity peers...

editorial: poetry is existentialism

We are very complex. Humans are complex beings. We have an immense capacity for greatness. And at times because we can get so caught up in the race to acquire, to showboat and be the one on top, we seem...