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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 November 202130 November 2021 Salma AbdulatifIn Issue 7: Soon/Come

The Ripe Time For Pity Parties It is wedding season.

30 November 202130 November 2021 Salma AbdulatifIn Issue 7: Soon/Come

The Muted Bride When a girl dreams, the spouse appears.

30 November 202130 November 2021 Kina IndongoIn Issue 7: Soon/Come

Windhoek The sun gets down on hands and knees, peers at how unremarkably the year is spent.

30 November 202130 November 2021 Kina IndongoIn Issue 7: Soon/Come

The Hunger Of Absence If you could, you would fit his whole frame in your mouth.

30 November 202130 November 2021 Veripuami Nandee KangumineIn Issue 7: Soon/Come

Daughters Of A Witch Mother says we should let our older sister go and live with the thing she calls a boyfriend.

30 November 202130 November 2021 Veripuami Nandee KangumineIn Issue 7: Soon/Come

Grapefruit Notice the veins and rivers that run from you.

30 November 202130 November 2021 Veripuami Nandee KangumineIn Issue 7: Soon/Come

There Isn’t A Word In Your Language For Being Touched But there are signs that you must have given.

22 July 202130 July 2021 Abdel Wahab YousifIn Issue 6: Tomorrow/Together

Escaping Places I’ll be nothing, a nothingness creeping on the body of existence.

22 July 202130 July 2021 Ndaundika ShefeniIn Issue 6: Tomorrow/Together

Church Of The Informally Settled For Heaven there is a price to be paid.

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