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Content tagged with poetry
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 ...
361 views
10 upvotes
9 comments
Bundynotted
city Lagos, Nigeria
In Arts and Crafts
Good Day To Mourn
Grey skyEyes cloudCloudy with a chance of tears rainTight smiles, condolence whispersAt vesper they gatherThey gather bonded by griefWail, weep, so...
61 views
4 upvotes
4 comments
Esther Omemu
city Oslo, Norway
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
Left Behind
Soon, it will be a year,and I still haven't found you.I have uprooted every flower in your garden,until my hands are black as soot,and dirt falls f...
10 views
1 upvote
0 comments
Deleted Account
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,...
302 views
3 upvotes
2 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...
324 views
2 upvotes
0 comments
Letters from Delight ⁠♡♡
city Abuja, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
Don't Tell Me To Put Myself In Your Shoes
Because I have shoes too. They are not bougie, nor Nike, nor Gucci, nor Zara, nor Chanel. They were carefully crafted with piercing thorns, and the...
216 views
24 upvotes
20 comments
Potato
city Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria
In Politics
Republic Of Embers
Our eyes, red from the flames,the annihilation, burned into our retinas.Is it freedom when my country is a living cell?Up north, the shepherd bleed...
56 views
5 upvotes
3 comments
Amuta Elizabeth
city Abuja, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
The Night After You Die
The night after you die feels different...Because you won't experience it.People would gather to cry over you,Even those you never seen for years.E...
41 views
6 upvotes
3 comments
Matthew Okibe
city Abuja, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
“I Carried You Like Something That Could Break—Only To Realize It Was Me”
I don’t think the worst day of my lifewas loud.It didn’t announce itselfwith shoutingor slammed doorsor final words that sounded like endings.It wa...
117 views
6 upvotes
5 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...
773 views
6 upvotes
7 comments
Stacy📚🌹
city Abuja, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
Chaos
CHAOSWhen scrambled thoughts, hurt feelings, and pain bring about chaos in our souls, this is a heart-wrenching spoken word short story I wrote tha...
83 views
5 upvotes
3 comments
Ayo
city Lagos, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
Battlefield Me
I said to myself, let sleeping dogs lieI knew that my mind was a lieIt's all in my headThe painIt's all in my headThe tormentIt's all in my headThe...
110 views
6 upvotes
6 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...
255 views
3 upvotes
1 comment
Esther Omemu
city Oslo, Norway
In People and Society
My Knees Are Cold!
I did not expect to be talking about loss this soon but oh well, such is this fleeting, unpredictable life. They say grief manifest itself in many ...
153 views
5 upvotes
6 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...
338 views
4 upvotes
5 comments
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...
364 views
5 upvotes
1 comment
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...
366 views
2 upvotes
0 comments
Potato
city Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
The Rot Within
Something in me died the day you left.Still, unmoving, dark.A hole, insatiable, ever-expanding,feeding on the life-giving energy of everything I wa...
82 views
8 upvotes
8 comments
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...
622 views
9 upvotes
13 comments
wrightwriteswrit
city Lagos, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
'Noise'
The world's crazy yunno.If only the world could be a little bit quiet,But I only have to block my ears.It's not 'truly' possible,But it would suffi...
64 views
4 upvotes
3 comments
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...
291 views
2 upvotes
0 comments
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...
268 views
3 upvotes
0 comments
Deleted Account
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
Devil's Pov
336 views
5 upvotes
5 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...
593 views
3 upvotes
5 comments
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...
755 views
6 upvotes
3 comments
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...
383 views
11 upvotes
14 comments
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