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She Wasn't Ready.

8 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

She wasn't ready for a life as thisToo young to face the harsh realityOf her body being stressed so earlyWhen that body should be pamperedYou promised her brotherly affectionYou decided to carve out her body's sectionsYou explored every part of her...

The anguish

8 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

Bukowski gave birth to more bad poetsthan all the centuries that preceded it.Taking from the beak doesn't make you Bukowski.Saying Marlboro doesn't make you Bukowski,at most you are putting sponsorsto the poem, and free. If you take clonazepamwill si...

What Are You/Every Bit...

7 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

Dearest, when pain consumes your heartAnd you feel all alone in this earthFocus on your potentials, that's your pathMaintain that serenity and inner peaceAnd listen to the beats in your heartEvery best signifies purposeFor every beat, there is a pu...

When Solitude Calls

6 Aug 2022 1 minute read 4 comments Rachabel

   Solitude is like moving   sands ready to swallow   All our outmeasured   pain   and woe    When sadness Prevails         With its shadow      A new life chapter         begins to draw     Loneliness seems our           last clue    It shows us th...

The unfortunates.

6 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

CowardsThey boast of their bravery. the ignorantflaunts knowledge. trying hard to seemthe being sinks into orphanhood. The word, like the mirror,inverts the terms of the real. The heart that he giveshe is the only survivor. The word is only validin t...

The amusement

4 Aug 2022 1 minute read 1 comment espacioreal

When he came you waited for him with a television occupying a central space in your house. At full volume. You received it with music whose lyrics invited you to inhabit the night, expensive cars and the importance of knowing how to move your buttock...

Sometimes You Miss It.

4 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

There were times when you had no worriesYou sit down on your porch and tell sweet storiesAdding spice to the story as you spice food up with the curriesYou just want to make it juicy like most people's favourite berriesIt's a rollercoaster ride to...

The Reported Dream

3 Aug 2022 1 minute read 1 comment CharlesAldux

By: Charles Aldux  Dedicated to and co-authored by D. Barrier. Inspired as an edited poem of my friend D. Barrier's similar poem. 8/3/2022 The Reported Dream Last Night. I dreamed that I merely stood upon the docked pier. Staring at the waters, the b...

Hello, Son-shine.

3 Aug 2022 1 minute read 2 comments Olawalium

I don't expect less from a boy charmerHe's energetic and trust me, he's super calmerToo smart for his age I would have to sayHe is the kind of boy every parent wish for and prayHis goodness of heart is not a trick but here to stayIt is always a del...

Where Dead Birds Fly (Two Poems)

3 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments CharlesAldux

Where Dead Birds Fly Rhyme and Free Verse By: Charles Aldux 7:49pm to 8:10pm CST 8/2/2022   Where Dead Birds Fly (In Rhyme) Where do dead birds fly? When things get too hard to testify? Of these things that get old. These things not bought yet are so...