Beautiful is not the build of your body It is not the colour of your character It is not the marvel of your morals Beautiful is none of that Beautiful are those who perceive themselves as beautiful for it is everything they are
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Dear xxx
I keep you in my heart, friend. Even if white wings find you; flying, Below I will ground you, hold you, frame You in my heart’s chamber. THUMP! Feel That heartbeat? THUMP! It’s you, free To live on in me.
That is Poetry
who is it that we write for ourselves love lovers what is it all for fame love fortune would it be enough if your life amounts to a verse that saves a single soul That is Poetry
Her Mirror Reflects
Eyes as dark as coffee beans, voice as sweet as sugar cane, skin as smooth as charcoal smeared along the canvas of my iris. She appears bold and strong, but bears the weight of her wig, which is as light as cotton, but as heavy as colonialism. She is a beautiful panther, butContinue reading “Her Mirror Reflects”
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The Escape from Loss
Have you heard the Atlantic cry to the Mediterranean? Have you heard the ancestors weep and gnash teeth? Years afore, in the Atlantic core bodies passed down the Middle Passage. The undercurrent had cast seaweed nets on their corpses, and mourned the loss. Only the moss’s prayers bubbled up in deep blue spirituals,Continue reading “The Escape from Loss”
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My Testament
If I should die before my time, Do not moan this travesty as “short-lived.” If these words should find you and touch you Like Elisha’s anointing, embrace my spirit. Ink your pen with our tears; let its salt Overwrite the eclipsed pages of my diary. Continue my words, this writing curse. Consecrate the dirt ofContinue reading “My Testament”
A Day in my Mother’s House
The sun creeps in through my red curtains dying my room pink. A womb. The indigo carpet soaks the sunlight warming my room. Incubator. Despite the shade of the fern out front and thickness of the drapes. Heat leaks in. I awake to the sound of a dove’s coo, a dog’s howl, a cockerel’sContinue reading “A Day in my Mother’s House”
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Samuel Rubadiri 