Cacooning Me
By Akossa Mary Mphepo
Sit down at your table,
In my favorite purple dress,
Hair tied back to smooth the frizz,
Face made up to hide the scars,
Sunglasses in the winter-noon –darkness,
Closing me away from the hostile..... read more
What Could Have Been
By Raziel
She walked in and glanced once around the room, for an instant her eyes locked with his. For an instant the room became quiet and time stood still, for an instant it was them and only them.
The loose dress she wore elegantly wrapped itself around her body, red in the of the hotel lobby but shimmering black as she crossed the shadows of the bar...... read more
Yes We Can!
By Tamanda Clare Mbendera
The seed came from good tree, the day the wind blew,
the tree shook, the fruit dropped, got picked up and chewed.
The seed then got spat out and thrown on the ground,
and with dust got swept away, and was never....read more
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