A Poem A Day writing prompt 10 Nov 2014

this week's writing prompt: "I have five things to say, five fingers to give into your grace." from Five Things by Rumi's, The Book of Love Poems of Ecstasy and Longing 1 rule: SUBMIT YOUR BEST WORK use the form below...

Where I Live by Fasaha Mshairi

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Where I live… Sadness is just a walk away. It overcomes you every time you walk its way, But that’s not the only thing that resides there.. There's Anger, Solemn and Cold. They overcome you every time...

Poverty by Lindile Manzingana

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Been multiplying before your hashtags did Before your digital sympathies, retweeting for the gathering of awareness But I’m older than the awakening of empathy, more cunning than the force for change that does nothing but live in...

Time chaser by Thabang Ngoma

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Standstill Waiting still Until the grand steal When time stood still In spite of legs Time cheats It flies in our good times And quantum leaps in our sleep It crawls in our watch And spites It...

Paradise (a Prayer to her holy Divinity) by Mapule Mohulatsi

[tabby title="Poet Bio"]A thunder makes love in the skin of Paradise. Paramount to her Divine touch are the screams of soothsayers, Silent ladies, Primordial sages, Ancestors of Venus, In Divine sashaying dresses. Matching in skin colour with the cacophony of...