Category: – English
Of Theocracy (Echo Factory)
by 1RD Guns and sticks and holy scripts; The rope that keeps us bound. Yet fading light, urges might; We firmly stand our ground. As light shines through the darkness With ease deprived of pride, Our songs will slice the silence, Drumming up hope in stride. The storms of change are singing, A song of…
Untitled
by Ayah Musaad Not normal bodies but plain skeletons painted with flesh. Heads swollen, concave stomachs, tired eyes and stick-thin legs… Kids with no childhoods, orphans; innocents forced to live in fear and stress. More children, more mothers and more fathers die, Everyday, like falling raindrops… Some leave their children to this world, Leave their…
An Orphan's Interpretation
by Ahmed Salah Yes I am… Yes i am the bastard , You’ve been talking about The son of the sin & the product of the lushy moment they had Don’t say it to ur friends in the back Try to be a man & stand up in my face & say يا ابن الحرام…
Strokes
by Ali Guduf Within the marshes of misconception the extracts of souls lost country the difference in art to person a day missed upon a once upon a time,anon a bequeathed sentiment falsely enriched on a feeling of dire enrollment seized Evading an endless stretch of time Fleeing as ticks of clock waiting Disembarking from…
Azza عزة
by Maabad Said (Temple) Well, Azza is supposed to be my mom And I love my mom But with all my heart i really, really hate her But I’m not standing here trying to debate her And you might call me a traitor GUILTY AS CHARGED !!! But my defense is I’ve removed all the…
I, self & Nation
by Ahmed Salah I self & nation The 17th of November 2000 & self My feet touched this land Didn’t recognize the slang Didn’t understand dem clan & my mind just clicked Here I don’t belong Here I waznt born, here I don’t know how to deal with dem folks & I’m gone Till I…
U Got Fooled
by Amin Isaac she said it’s true that he makes me live hell.. but sometimes he makes me feel like heaven.. she said he’s constantly giving me limps and busted lips.. i can handle all that pain more or less she said but what would kill me is the pain of loneliness she said he…
BequeatheQuest
by Ahmed Hardallo Quest, Out to the woods , for the explanation of the string theory as obsolete as it may be , it flaps in the wind , A beacon of a possibility of a null probability , like an indefinable infinity, Like the the adamant nature of no passability , As it is…
More Than 1, 2, 3
by Qutouf Yahia One. More than once I’ve been told that I don’t look like I pray That I just don’t seem the type And I often thought that it was because of what I wear Or how I don’t always cover my hair But what I don’t understand is how we associate religion with appearance when we don’t…
Loving You
by Sadig Gasim Mukhayer Loving you is easy ‘coz you’re beautiful But so damn hard at the same time Because your hard head hurts my sane mind Driving it behind to my insane one & I’m left trying to gain one upper hand But I find both my hands up in surrender & though tender…
