Temporary World by Poetic Fortune

[tabby title="Poem"] This world is not my home,I'm a passing shadow,a soul in transit,borrowing breath from borrowed time, Soon I will depart –leaving behind the noise, the weight,the fragile echoes of this place. Beyond this life lies my true dwelling,Where...

God Bless Cuba by Chanda Katonga

[tabby title="Poem"] CubaCuba weeps.And the worldobserves in silence. Suffering does not shout.It endures. United States,power has been your language.But poweris never permanent. A nation may riseon strength—yet fallby its excess. The weak remember.History remembers longer. Sanctions tighten slowly.Hunger moves quietly.But...

For Alexis by Ferdi Wheeler

[tabby title="Poem"] Now the snow-bells in the garden wilt,as the balmy breath of spring blowsdaily from August to Septemberand tosses the crowns of the tallest trees around,while it rustles through the first green on the meadows. So the seasons succeed...

MISSIVE IN A BOTTLE by Mbongeni Khumalo

[tabby title="Poem"] Tokotoko on the wallDon't you fallFrozen hotBurning Island of DesireAmber stillI'm head over high heelsMopheadYou make my head go haywire Two hearts beating as oneDivided by politiciansAnd an impregnable Berlin WallBurning heat waves of hatredBeating against the pierTrue...

Synced with Darkness by Adri Roothman

[tabby title="Poem"] My world has run dry.Days are so dark,stark in contrastwith clear blue skies. I breathe, but I don’t feel it.Every single inhale and exhalehits like a sledgehammer on stone. In the deep trenches of my soul,I crave to...