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A Poem A Day writing prompt 20 June 2016

1 rule: SUBMIT YOUR BEST WORK “I have enjoyed the bounce of youth And stayed wherever I chose“ from A Protest From a Bushman by Albert G.T.K. Malikongwa (Staffrider Vol. 2 No. 2 April/May 1979. pg. 42)   use the...

A Poem A Day writing prompt 13 Jun 2016

1 rule: SUBMIT YOUR BEST WORK “bloodstains on morguesheet sweat of impotence born to die lie dead in the street the lie of omnipotence“ from Habari Gani Africa by Lesego Rampolokeng   use the form below to submit or click...

Honey, I’m home by The Vine

Her heart beats, Sheets reek of deceit Emotions torn piece by piece. I bleed My soul desolate and bleak, I walk these streets Torment showers of dream sleets and echoes of screams, screeching beasts claw my conscience in a humbled...

Water by Christo Frederick Crous

A simple life needs the flow, Yet a drip bears no conscious grip. How will our children grow? If we can’t give a sip. The time was now. The searing sun scars our lip. Would the drip glow? With dissolving...

Twin Girls, 1948 by Donal Mahoney

Beth was always different marching as she did to an armless drummer. Her sister Kate marched to another drummer, one with arms on certain days but never with a drum that caught the sticks Kate kept in the air flailing....