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Content tagged with poetry
Bint As-samt🧚🏻
city Lagos, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
Born Into The Unknown.🧚🏻
There she was—Lost in a room filled with emotions.Covered in blood, but it wasn’t pain that confused her… it was identity.She didn’t know who she w...
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Bolanlejesu Akinola
city Dublin, Ireland
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
What Does It Feel Like To Be Chosen?
Be everyone's hero every day but sometimes step away to break downCry and pat your shoulders all by yourselfEveryone sees you but they don't really...
533 views
5 upvotes
2 comments
Bolanlejesu Akinola
city Dublin, Ireland
In Relationships
The Tears We Bleed
Who would have thought we would be where we are?Yesterday was pain and today was supposed to be gain,But everyone says "we wait for the future"Are ...
160 views
5 upvotes
5 comments
Dolapo Oludairo
city Ado-Odo, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
Devil's Pov
117 views
3 upvotes
2 comments
Esther Omemu
city Oslo, Norway
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
What It Means To 'Carry Home In A Suitcase'
I have always wanted to write about living in the diaspora. It is not an original thought but since the moment I packed my bags not once, but twic...
123 views
4 upvotes
4 comments
Bint As-samt🧚🏻
city Lagos, Nigeria
In Relationships
A One Sided Love, Sigh.🧚🏻
Ohhh, my dear beloved,Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever truly meet you.I sit at night,My mind wanders—Then the thought of youMakes it stop.Gives me t...
147 views
2 upvotes
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Bolanlejesu Akinola
city Dublin, Ireland
In Mental Health
"How Are You, Really?"
I thought I heard "How are you?"But what I missed was the "really"My default answer is usually "good"Because I'm programmed that way, it's what soc...
190 views
7 upvotes
9 comments
Bolanlejesu Akinola
city Dublin, Ireland
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
Release Yourself Too
I see the four walls you built around meI know what a cage looks likeYou used me to aid your satisfactionAre you pleased now?Now that I give everyt...
389 views
1 upvote
3 comments
Ink Horizon
city Abuja, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
Of Serpents And Maidens
Perhaps it was the red of her dress,or the glass of her skin.Her jet-black hair,or the smile—cleverly cut—he swore could light a winter's eve.He he...
111 views
3 upvotes
1 comment
Esther Omemu
city Oslo, Norway
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
For The Poets Who’Ve Borrowed Their Metaphors
To be a poet without a story feels like an irony because everyone assumes you must have suffered greatly to write something beautiful. That great a...
301 views
8 upvotes
6 comments
Bolanlejesu Akinola
city Dublin, Ireland
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
A Love Letter
Best in loveYou make love so easyI see your sincerityIt's the pureness of your heartThe integrity of your spiritYour humble mindHow can I resist yo...
487 views
3 upvotes
1 comment
Bint As-samt🧚🏻
city Lagos, Nigeria
In Mental Health
She’S Feels Insecure, Again.🥹
There she was, seeking validation again.She looked in the mirror.A little makeup on my face wouldn’t hurt today, she thought again.She put up the c...
130 views
3 upvotes
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Bint As-samt🧚🏻
city Lagos, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
The Art Of Noticing.🧚🏻
The heart once sought noise.The soul was loud—needing the littlest attention,yet never settling.Always seeking.It couldn’t sit with itself,not even...
175 views
2 upvotes
0 comments
Dolapo Oludairo
city Ado-Odo, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
Tethered
All my life, I’ve searched for purpose.Or maybe… I tried to define it.Tried to mold it into something tangible —something I could carrylike a name,...
145 views
3 upvotes
1 comment
Praise Agunna
city Port Harcourt, Nigeria
In Africa
Voices Unbound
Voices unbound, our sorrows unleashed We scream and hope our voices are heardWe cry, blood dripping freely from our eyesOur mothers wail, their han...
182 views
5 upvotes
1 comment
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