Category: Poetry
The Platonic Pledge
by Maabad Said I’ve got a petty poet’s pretty pretentious, Poetic poems and plenty of poetry to tell, Words overturning words, overturning Worlds Gushing in Spasmodic Hurls Rushing Luscious Lyrics of Metaphysics Raging Rhymes of Reason and Simple Symbolistic Sonnets Still, I stand distilled, unwilling as to pause it Flushing as I turn, the Vocalistic…
Good Morning, Goodbye
by Lameese Badr We straightened our creases and Squinted our eyes As the sun dawned on us. A reminder that this was bound to end Regardless of all the ways we tried to stall. The light illuminated all of our imperfections Which we were blind to last night, Revealing all the reasons of why we couldn’t…
To The leaver in The Mirror
Don’t leave me Believe me The satisfaction you’re after won’t be there.. Stay and gather the fractions of your memory, try to perceive me I know you can’t uphold the traps of disguise anymore I don’t want you to release me Take your time sailing my lore And eventually you’ll see me Then you might…
Monkey Bars & Ice Cream Trucks (Red is Sin)
by Lameese Badr Stop. This is not your wife’s skin which you are caressing, This is a young girl’s hymen that you are tearing. She is young enough to be your daughter, Your granddaughter. Did you think she’ll forget? Don’t you know that ten years later When her friends are gathered around bonfires Reminiscing about childhoods…
Matchbox Blues
by Ahmad Mahmoud I am from The Match Brigade* North Sudan is where I was born and raised. South Kordofan is where I was deployed to engage Infidels who fight for a secular state Brought at a young age, to be filled with rage By bearded men who spoke of heavens full of virgin maids…
I Lost My Soul
by Sadig Gasim Mukhayer You see, I lost my soul. You see I lost my soul in a sea I can’t control. I can’t with hold emotions, my sanity’s over board & life’s at times an overlord, that dictates it’s evil hoards Of situations, karma and weather to cause discord So as I try to…
أنا
by Tasneem Nagi أنا أنا صوت أتسمعني؟ أنا همس يعانق داخل القلب أنا لمحة تحررنني إطلاقة طرفك والردة أنا صوتك أنا صوتي أنا أنا سودانية شلوخ حبوبة ووشم النيل على جبهة تضوي بشرق حنين أنا رملة وادي نيالا تحضنه بغرب جميل أنا دقة طبلة ونقارة أنا رمحة صيد وسنارة أنا موية ووادي وصحرا كمان أنا…
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by Adam Warsame Narbeth The war has finished, They cheer while I am here, under the vast, cold world. Fires burn without warmth, and if any living come we reach for their souls, we scream for them. They are careless and they must join us. We will everlast here. cruelly, painfully, but always with a little…
It's Been A Year
by Sadig Gasim Mukhayer It’s been a year… And I’ve felt the most amount of pain my brain could contain & I can claim that I maintained my sanity I’ve lost and gained my faith in humanity one too many times to say I understand reality & my reality provided me with a dream come…
Prophecies of Alignment
by Mostafa Agha Prophecies of alignment ,, Moon Scarf.. Everybody put three fingers in the air ,, The sky is crackin like breaking jaws The wind is breezin harvesting souls The sun done set from west then rose Live, strive and die for No cause … Welcome to the end of days,, When every river…
