Poetry is for those who are in love with words. Where words are pushed to their breaking point and are transformed into pure emotion.
Featured Poetry
Let the children play (Education)
by Wambui, Kenya
Remember when children used to play
Not a care, not a worry
Just fiddling with clay
Remember how they ran about
Rolling in the playing fields
Laughing, loving the bright blue sky
Enjoying...
I remember U! (Culture)
by Dumletam
I remember the looks
so penetrating, so deep
silent and innocent
filled with questions
though ready to be asked
wouldn't be because
those beautiful lips
have been trained
for...
Me militant (Human Rights)
by Reality, Nigeria
I would buy me a Dane gun
And order a spear
make me a wooden gun
that I may qualify
Count me in and gimme my share
I have a gun and my machete
Gimme bread in return
and an oil well
I...
The fugitive (Environment)
by Robbie
The fugitive was a frail piece of artwork. The tapestry of his skin intertwined with scars of futile journeys, limp limbs etched with the inevitability of death.
Ostracized... Outcast......
The march of liberty (Culture)
by rawmaterial, Nigeria
He thought, they thought
that the situation was not right.
Basic amenities were lacking,
There was poverty all about,
There was nepotism in the land,
Corruption was endemic,
Abuse of power...
If we understood love (Culture)
by Timothy G. Branfalt Sr.
As all children play in their homelands,
And find the Love that nature brings.
Be it high in the mountains or shorelands
Their hearts share the same things.
The happiness that surrounds them,...
Dear World (Peace & Conflict)
by alexandra tome
Today a child cried
Because their alcoholic parent beat them.
One hour ago a child was sent to work in a factory
Because their parents sold them off as a child slave.
Yesterday a child...
In case: a letter to the lukewarm (Health)
by Dumletam
Part 1:
…You Tell
“Not at this time!”
You just told me.
I’d thought you’d
Exercise some patience,
Look around you
Then tell me, that is,
If it is still necessary
To say: “not at this...
If I were in a wheelchair (Health)
by Rashad Amahad, Bahamas
If I were in a wheelchair
I'd wish you would not stop and stare,
Unless it was at the glare from my super fine hair.
If I were in a wheelchair man, I would love to have ramps everywhere.
If...
A lifetime chasing a dream (Globalization)
by Maria Nanabhai
My dream,
It has always been
But was always a little too far
Just an inch..
But out of reach
No fulfillment was possible
I take my hand out and try to get it
It keeps getting away
I try...
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