Skipping by Fasaha Mshairi

[tabby title="Poem"] Limitless Stings Frowns Dark at heart Saddened us Weakened eyes Shadowed sight Mirrors lie Insides out Outsides still Pupils dilate See no further [restrict]than electronics Blinded love Loving things Inhuman beings Silly schemes Running slow Walking fast Motionless...

Love Shackles by Fasaha Mshairi

[tabby title="Poem"] She’s constantly praying for a day When she will treat your heavy sketching on her chest As gentle hands attempting to tickle her soul. She’s learning to stop crying to your words. She’s recalling her face. She’s shooting...

More Nothing My Own by Thompson Charlie

[tabby title="Poem"] There is more nothing my own Than the freedom of my heart The pulse that searches The wilderness for the tame There is no wall more confining Till to the cold wide sea I am forced to stand...

temporally free by Rodney Roskruge

[tabby title="Poem"]Thomas Sankara died for ideas which still live on today, tomorrow red carpets for red berets which can not stand upright weighed down by tender bellies made from Egypt, France and others punching the air screaming I will take...

It vs. Freedom by Ravona

[tabby title="Poem"] A hankering beast set out, just behind me It was birthed to this world seconds after my cord was snipped Life became my own And always shared with It It breathes heavy on my neck The condensed droplets...