Once, I was given a dirty look Next was a verbal lash Asking for what it is That tugs at my throat For an abuse, They imagined is not my concern . Next ,I was given a query For objecting to another being called names A bloody fool , And I thought it was evil […]

of all things God made with his hands he combined alphabets for it. of all the things that look so hard is the wedding of all letters. the hardest part of the picture is brick-fisted belligerence, a piper’s dream and broken flutes, avocation of missing time, sour word salad on neck-tie tongues, misappropriating prayers. no […]

when someone dies, I do not feel a thing. I become numb, I almost become deaf and I am never dumb. I am the first to comfort the bereaved and offer words of support, while I am usually more than a mess inside. For everyone close to me, I have thought of their death at […]

13 November, 2019 dear Fatimya P. Peldot, don’t turn off the lights. i am Coming home after a paragraph of absence. a later lover. Ruddapoet

Our laughter brings tears And our faith comes with fears Because we only live to die We live to not be alive. Life on earth be not forever Could death be our happy ever after? Though death be, rest in peace, sleep in bliss and life dash us to ground, leaves us in piece We […]

just jot, write all syllables down, all mysteries uncovered here. put into detail man and town don’t take out writings one can hear. when my rivers flow, go uptown, give me all royalties and crown, words here have to obey lockdown so punctuations will be tier. furthermore, please check all those nouns, make sure verbs […]

talking drums talking loudly, thunderous applause, clear sky our substance rewards effort thanksgiving should come often. growth finds her way of telling her story through bodies, minds dear housekeeper, find someone who will find your body’s map touch not my anointed place holiness lives within me please avoid my innocence like taboos, outcasts, shock waves. […]

His fire works. Burning down thick woods His fire works, his fire walks, his fire… One smoky head comes aft fire’s quenched. Over darkness, whose spirit broods? We pray Lord, may his fire get drenched May his fire be baptized with fire May Holy fire, water from high, Rest upon him till he becomes, Gentle […]

to choose when to stay, one must learn how to bend the knees and appease the nyash. to choose when to leave, one must become a tree with leaves while aiming the sun. what both can teach us is a traveler must leave home, to answer his name. the lesson learnt there is for the […]

Begin with a strike Then it will spark, then light, then fire. Watch the king’s house burn, The maidens murmur, The servants wonder, the queen faints, And the princess cries. She is the mother Of the true heir to the king’s throne, The queen’s best handmaid. Watch the castle burn And the king buried in […]