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Letter From The Other Side By Chris Chakwana

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I am that seed that was denied the chance to grow. That cock early morning did not crow, the fifth wheel terminated without my will. I am the child you aborted that child you denied the warmth of your womb, tenderness of your breast that child you relegated to the tomb. But No! I refuse to rest, because am that child whose loss u didn't grieve. That child u denied the right to live. Am the child you obliterated, mercilessly annihilated, callously incinerated am the soul whose life you separated that child whose death you celebrated. A product of your reckless behaviour Juvenile delinquency, miss know it all. I am that sad soul u destroyed the abortion pill you employed. I am that being you erased, that life that can never be replaced. Dear mother am that child on your conscience. Your secret yes!, but your daily torment. Like a stain, my memory will ever be your daily pain. I am your mental anguish, disposed of me like rubbish you selfish being. I...

Poetic Justice by Ignatious Chiveso

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Word, her words Fall so strong, like the hummer, Judge’s stamp of justice So smooth at times Whipped cream Fluffy on my tongue I hear her rhyme Poesy, music I hear When she speak... I have learnt Without success to live without The sound of her laughter That naughty smile Childish even, The many times Down memory lane We would travel, releasing The young us.. Oh, how I gravely miss That warm giddy feeling Anticipation, anxiety even The feeling of meeting The feeling of reconnecting, The music she would evoke The rhythm of feeling... Sensuous tones Of words unspoken The very thought Of meeting her the morrow She was, is my poem She wrote the very words Defined the stanza of my happiness Without her, I’m but a prose Words without music A drama without rhythm and rhyme How days could pass Without the slightest notice Without her Am I stuck? Love struck  I’m immobile She gave me motion The d...

Salute to the Forest by: Colleen Colkitt

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Apply lipstick and heels and tease more than hair, watch as she saunters into the dense night woods

Last Night by Vokal DaPoet

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Image - photographer unknown Last night last night I last night I met (how do I say this) last night I met the devil I said last night I met the devil and he had tired of conversations about convalescing economies and conspiracy theories satanising religions and sanitising minds by brandishing threats and excuses in the defence of corrupt despotic African governments and imperialistic European and American nations bent on taking over the continent he had tired of speaking to a lesser pedigree of thinkers for he was a genius one who could write and rewrite the history of nations front to back and back to front in the movement of a woman he was watching one with whom he was committing a lonely sin with in his cranium his hungry eyes tore her dress which resembled an oversized t-shirt accentuating her thighs and giving character to her hips so his hand slithered into his pocket to caress the crisp bank notes he was whetting his appetite savouring the mome...

...this is 19 April 2011..by Tswarelo Mothobe

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Your doors wide open with an embracing breast Sat me in the discomfort of an unfulfilled reality A nudging at my peace Scotching in my emotion A fruit hanging strangely off the branches of an unsuspecting tree Dying (or are you just pulling my leg) Dead, with a clear knowledge of the end I asked once Has it started again? That journey whose end we all know at the beginning of every relationship Has it started again? Because, I feel more afraid than free More text book than me I am ruin trapped within my ignoring my beckoning emotions Whirling up into this frustration of unspoken word I am logic ridiculed by this need To respond to my heart but then again to my respect of you I feel like a man grown old constantly looping in first grade A hopeless romantic  Prostitute Biting her bottom lip in response to that need to get paid An old soul in a new reality Drops of rain in the lifeless limbo of the concrete jungle A free man that j...

She... By Chris Chakwana

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Image - all-hd-wallpapers.com Her clothes scantily placed cleavage out, short miniskirt; lasciviously dressed   womanhood exposed loose man's feelings aroused. She moves about in search of her prey lurking the dark city night in notes and coins they must pay. To quench their sexual appetite that hunger the ache of their loins. Her face laden with too much mascara, hides her age, her past her history her love's in a cage her past just but a mystery. The noise she makes as she paces the quiet night with her stiletto This darkness hides her deeds her fear of being caught in this flagrante delicto all her clients, loose adulterous men she has tamed fear of the disease thrown through the window, that wife soon to become a widow, all in search of Her eternal pleasure.

Tuesday by Holly Day

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The woman at the store is so nice to me I almost start crying. She says, "That's a nice sweater." She says, "Can I help you with your bags?" She says, "I'll bet you've got something nice planned for this beautiful day." I cling to her pleasantries; I want To stay here with her in the cool of the department store I want to tell her how miserable my life is I want her to fix me. But I know These things aren't allowed. I crack my face into a smile Nod politely, force myself to make eye contact Tell her, "Have a nice day!" shuffle off to the parking lot Where my husband sits behind the wheel Trying to read the paper over the noise of the kids Shouting at each other in the back seat, where I throw the groceries into the truck, strap myself into my own seat Where my husband snaps, "What took you so long? I thought you were just going to buy some tampons."