if you love a noun, use adjectives and don’t let go, letting it/them go is preparing for their return, or banishment, as memorable as a journey is, it’s either au revoir or à bientôt, the beginning is not freedom, it may be another type of chain, the end is not peace or rest, it may […]

Thank you very much Is a very scarce commodity For they compare what you give To what they imagine Is your total possession. Learn the act and art, Of acting as though The giver gave her all And you received all. For you can’t afford anything And she gave all she can afford. Bose

The girl hanging as a mural wears a sour face. her skin is the color of stars and her hair is the flames in oceans. If I try to be at peace with my thoughts she transforms into a white smoke living excessively in my liver. healing the wrinkles of loneliness stretching my face to […]

Open sesame In this house, I’m in a black room I can’t see, so I find a space my hands feel it’s not a sliding window deep inside, I pray it is a louvered door In this house, the ceiling is low I don’t feel air passing by my fear strangles me by the neck […]

a coalition of water bodies leads a flowing river to a still pond. the rough fetcher. the calm and troubled swim. give me water to drink. cook. pour me dirt from the shores. I am the dumb frog that can’t jump. the spoken word that needs a chain. she is the flowing water that burns. […]

What colour is my nose? With a face that matches the name baritone in sync with the Adam’s apple Crunchy as an apple; With this one, it is always crunch time Crunch crunch, words, and sentences; Rolling out in paradoxes and nonexistent figures of speech This innovator! Particular about color, I wonder if he has […]

the candle will find a way to illuminate e’en if it’s broken. Tomide Abdul

Sepulchre flipping memories for heads or tails. it starts from a letter until it’s a letter. I was the latter until I am the latter. this note is the way to know I note the grey areas to omit till we turn grey. you are another song. a remix. a refix. take more for yourself. […]

All the bad things I have a written list Of all the bad ideas Half of which I accidentally ticked With my eyes somewhat open First I blamed my feet Then my hands, my mouth My thoughts are the most guilty I am the mother of unholy thoughts Thriving on the same plain with the […]

‘21 | Gratitude | ‘22 everything that I wanted, I got in two folds and more, I was God’s favorite son, I was the earth’s most-loved, to friends, I was a gift, to torn hopes, I gave a lift, I was my motivation to fail, I was my fear not to succeed. ‘gratitude to those […]