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Tag Archives: poetry

1 [mass noun] literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.

2 the best poetry from Doek!.

30 December 202430 December 2024 Ethel MafwilaIn Issue 14: Turipamwe

To Be Forgotten There are things my shadow could not begin to whisper.

30 December 202430 December 2024 Ethel MafwilaIn Issue 14: Turipamwe

If Broken Glass Floated There is a shame that dances to sympathy and bathes in pity, it gets drunk on its own nudity.

30 December 202430 December 2024 Ethel MafwilaIn Issue 14: Turipamwe

Enough I did not know how difficult it was to drink your own tears, so as to not die from thirst.

5 August 20245 August 2024 Tjizembua TjikuzuIn Issue 13: Dala

Fig Tree …when you are done and gone from this place, I will pluck a sapling from your father’s fig tree and plant it in my garden for my children to eat.

5 August 20245 August 2024 Tjizembua TjikuzuIn Issue 13: Dala

Portrait Of My Grandfather …distilling tears into nourishing rain.

15 December 202315 December 2023 Scholastika Namutenya NegongoIn Issue 12: The Crossing

A Road It’s neither a shadow nor myth; it's a choice with no rights.

15 December 202315 December 2023 Scholastika Namutenya NegongoIn Issue 12: The Crossing

A Departed Body And Soul Stay right here, where you and I have always been standing.

1 September 20232 September 2023 A. K. HermanIn Issue 11: The Stillness

In This Season Fire devours trees, houses, people, spits the ash on windscreens.

1 September 20232 September 2023 A. K. HermanIn Issue 11: The Stillness

Dark Not that you are, you’re some other shade.

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