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...

Crux by Osita Kabba

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Nature’s artwork unveiled displaying a lineal paragon. Evidence of primal existence, a prototype of basics, all egalitarian kin no elitist. Elephant ear denoting our actuality, tribes in abundance near but still distant. Lustrous soil of vigorous heritage,...

A Poem A Day writing prompt 3 Nov 2014

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When Words Leave Your Mouth by Fasaha Mshairi

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] When words leave your mouth Send them away with nothing but truth. When words have grown maturely into sentences, Stanzas, Prose, Poems, Love songs And have packed for their journey to ears and all sorts of minds,...

The Opaque Room by Nimar

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] You don’t know what dark is You haven’t slept in it; Awakened to it; Bathed in it; Cried tears with it (alone) No, darkness has never been close to you It’s a black light that keeps shining...