The archive And I die Poem by S.K.B. Lazarus · 1994 The first cryIs struggleI passed through all stagesToil and sweatAchieved and retiredI look myselfIn mirror full lengthIs this me?I asked.Years tellingGrandfather white headSkin wrinklesI waitedIt cameAnd I die.Funeral rituals doneRemains in shroudFor the cemeteryPut in graveSand toppingMy final homeOther thingsThis point beyondNot known S.K.B. […]
The archive Elegie on Mris Boulstred Poem by John Donne · 1987 Nor will this earth serve him; he sinkes the deepeWhere harmelesse fish monastique silence keepe,Who (were Death dead) by Roes of living sand,Might spunge that element, and make it landHe rounds the aire, and breakes the hymnique notesIn birds (Heavens choristers,) organique throats,Which […]
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 […]