Poetry Zara North Poetry Zara North

Winter

Like a King on the summit, sat cruel Lord Winter On his throne all day! Casting his gaze over the freezing landscape…

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Poetry Lita Fikeni Poetry Lita Fikeni

Selfish

Worldwide wars and massive massacres, Deadly diseases and colossal crimes…

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Poetry Matthew de la Hey Poetry Matthew de la Hey

Unogwaja

I couldn’t say who saw who first:

Yellow eye spying yellow boy,

or the other way around.

Either way, here we were

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Poetry Matthew de la Hey Poetry Matthew de la Hey

The ceremony of innocence

Such wonder and misunderstanding for an innocent to witness, to watch, to take part in the unravelling of a human soul, the loss of a mind, the…

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Poetry Benjamin Dawes Poetry Benjamin Dawes

At the River

When the child was a child, she walked barefoot, wide-eyed through forests thick of mud…

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Poetry Benjamin Dawes Poetry Benjamin Dawes

Regeneration

I saw your face in the clouds. You used to squeeze my hand as we walked through fields of tall grass…

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Poetry Hugh Petit Poetry Hugh Petit

Lockdown

Locked in, ‘keep out’, our liberty in drought. Life in restriction, spawn of some covert affliction. Your futures unclear, the ‘new normal’ is here…

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Poetry Benjamin Dawes Poetry Benjamin Dawes

August 14th

Tel Aviv glistened on August 14th. The Municipality Building glowed black, red, white and green, of the UAE flag, its freshly minted ally…

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