Still Rising (For Maya)

Poetry Still Rising (For Maya) Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 You may trod me in history With your pretty petty lies, But just like dust trampled to the ground, I’ll rise How long will ours be a once sided dialogue in this conversations of self liberation How long will our best stories be nothing more […]

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Dead Or Alive?

Poetry Dead Or Alive? Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 They already said I am the weird one Chasing my dreams through midnight high ways but I miss the dead! Not for the reasons you would! More rotten minds, solve my ills More ghostly tassels guide my dreams Than fleshy foams of wet marrows More people […]

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I Will Write Again

Poetry I Will Write Again Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 I will write again Of slum love and ghetto fantasies of the class blindness of infatuation And well worn chanting rosaries Though each day is a struggle of survival Of hunger, anger and surrender I will write again Of Last night and nights like last […]

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For Xenophobia Victims

Poetry For Xenophobia Victims Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 Let me not wear father’s name On this muddy capes of injustice Now that I know why the rainbow Never speaks black On the great promise of greener pastures We left the silks of familiarity to grapple On the waters of a starved kaleidoscopic desert Little […]

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Menorah

Poetry Menorah Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 the Menorah Seven candle sticks seven shards of light that are rosetta stones to the seals of divinity withing me unlocking the scroll of Christ Decoding the measures of Yaweh Maranatha! First published 15 December 2017. Later published on PoemHunter on 2 January 2018. Previous poemFor Xenophobia VictimsNext […]

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I Am Wrath

Poetry I Am Wrath Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 the dawn will arrive just a tide upon the thighs of starless darkness i will arise! reborn and dusted out of the ashes and echoes of nightmares that quelled kingdoms and froze giants i am a catastrophe upon the household of elitist miscreant I am Wrath […]

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Love Is More

Poetry Love Is More Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 Love is more than the ridiculous and outrageous Valentine excesses Love is more than the constant plot of Bollywood movies Love is more than unstable human feelings Before love etered the imaginations of man Love was the song on replay in the eternal iPods of heaven […]

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Defiance (For Fela)

Poetry Defiance (For Fela) Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 Tonight, in kallakulta The walls resound the powerful orations of afrobeat Along the forgotten corridors of time Hoping that they sip true the cracks of continuous reality Tonight in Nigeria; A middle aged man gets high On the afrodosiac nostalgia of his childhood As he sings […]

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For Lesser Cause Than These

Poetry For Lesser Cause Than These Poem by Vic’Adex · 2018 We shall overcome We shall overcome Someday O! Deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome someday! . Sometimes I wonder why the someday of This Negro spiritual cannot be today Such spirited people high on hope Yet they only saw the […]

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Aimed At You

Poetry Aimed At You Poem by Vic’Adex · 2016 my words would not be washed off Pilate’s hands to crucify them again on vain crosses my words would not re-stress the stress of our leaders they will undress the hypocrisy beneath your dress leaving your lies in a state of unrest my words are aimed […]

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