Category: Poetry
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I Want To, I Want You (too)
by Fatma Latif I want to fuel your mornings, stir it up with the magic of a 2AM conversation I want to nurture your passion, to withstand it, have you slide onto mine with eyes closed and heavy longing flowing from your bores I want to build foundations inside your mind, mental bridges, penetrating connection,…
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Who Am I?
by Zahra Berama I nurture gardens of bonsai homegrown from emotional soil. Where the trees leaves perspire like injections of externalized pain. An agricultural architect: I grow homes from the bottom of my heart… And then sell them to my left-handed pen. I build truths you will never understand. Erected from grains of maniacal sand,…
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I Never Told You
by Galal Saeed You are fake and knowing you was a big mistake Go away for God’s sake, you are a liar you are a snake I hate you truly, I truly do Every cell in me hates every cell in you That’s what I told you.. That’s what I sent you.. But forget the messages…
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A Conversation
by Rashad Abdulrahman He said, You spell “lust” by the way you walk It’s the word that your gait utters, and When you turn around I can trace it on your tight skirt Wrapped around your panties to revel the same letters, and Frankly, I’m ashamed that you excite me I’m ashamed that my head…
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My Sins Block my Du'a
by Abdul Salaam Abu Lo As I sit here alone, The tears rolling down my face It is not salt, but pain that I taste… So I leave now to go Stand before You I am helpless and alone, What else can I do? I have asked, I have begged But my sins block my…
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Contradictions
by Ahmed Salah See I’m a nigga trynna prove to y’all that I’m the lyricist The mentalist The nemesis Im mad bout everything Hip hop iz dead & I really think dat nobody cares Dem Youth been puffing dat herb & I’m saying who fucking cares Governmental shit manipulate some men hypnotize their minds to…
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Weaponz
by Ahmed Salah A bunch of gunz were together reminiscing Thinking bout how many lives they killed or those who gone missin AK-47 started saying I’m the illest In one second 15 of my bulletz can fly switching lives from livin to vividly kickin the soul outta the body division But the magnum started showing…
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Dear
by Sadig Gasim Mukhayer Dear Misery, I’m writing you first, because you’re always there. Though many fear you, I have grown accustomed to you, and as you love company, so do I so I keep you close, as close as I’d keep a lover, possibly closer, because a lover may leave, but you are always there.…
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Untitled
by Tasneem Nagi 2 كان واقفاً هناك، في زاوية الغرفة قبالة النافذة، وقميصه ذو الخطوط السوداء الطولية ينقصه زر أشهق مصارعة ضجيج أعماقي بحثاً عن منفذ لنفس هواء، أتأمله وهو يسند جسده النحيف الى الحائط بنصف انهزام بينما تحوم سحب دخان سجائره حول رأسه كنسور تحلق فوق جثة وسط الفوضى التي قادتني إلى هنا لم…
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Execution day
by Ahmed Salah Hiz story waz on the 17th of November 1995 This waz an event that flipped my life It waz the day that I started to recognize Today iz the the day of hiz demise Az hiz lawyer I waz mesmerized I expected tearz from hiz eyez But He waz so damn calmed…