by The Repeat Beat Poet | Jun 29, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Portrait of a country What is your country in a definition? When the first ship anchored on the shore of the Atlantic. My country became an experiment of – forced marriage. As with guns, plough and religious wars, they wedded three...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Jun 28, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Memory of Water When you told me once that grief comes in waves, were you referring to your own death? All of us still living trying to dissect our own meaning as if it were pooled in our hands, slipping through the cracks of our fingers. Perhaps...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Jun 27, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Alanis Morissette small dark speck on the window looks at me says you are lonely small dark speck on the window laughs says you are surrounded by joy small dark speck on the window stares at me how it stares small dark speck on the window refuses...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Jun 26, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Golden Shovel after Gwendolyn Brooks ‘We real cool’ A tribute to Khadija Saye 1992 – 2017 Gambian-British artist and photographer She bubbles laughter and we are captivated, caught by real joy in her happiness. So cool – I’m an artist! Rock my...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Jun 25, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
I want/do not want my daddy He is screaming and crying and wants Me and doesn’t Want me And is not sore and does not want medicine But does not want to stay In bed or get out of bed or go Downstairs or to the window And wants me to go away and...
