poems by Johnpaul Simiyu
Requiem For A King When I first stumbled upon Martin Luther King Jr., I was black. My mother was not in the kitchen.
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Requiem For A King When I first stumbled upon Martin Luther King Jr., I was black. My mother was not in the kitchen.
Blood on the Moon Lightning erupts, whitewashing midnight sky. Blinded, the clouds retreat to re-gather their nighted senses. In that moment, a world is born. Celestial bodies caught in spotlight’s beam mutate into conglomerations of each other.
Devil’s ring “Devil’s Ring” call the Clitoris Some religious And some cloistered nuns What do they see in the vertical smile
by Doug Dawson I thought I was smart – 39 years old and still running around – a sexual libertine who loved wild women and sexual conquests. Over the years I’d cut a swath through the arts community and in my spare time dated love-starved ex-nuns, socialites, cheating housewives, well-padded matrons, a swimsuit model, a […]
by Ramzi Albert Rihani I have a few questions that I will be grateful if you could send down your answers. I say “send down” because we’ve been taught that you are up in heaven. God forbid, you cannot be down in hell. That’s where bad things happen. You are the almighty, the most powerful, […]
Press Men All the press men talk the same Same filth from the same drain Needed is honest legitimacy
Manifesto A man needs something outside of his comprehension to revere, or else he makes an idol out of his own intelligence. The absurdity of a God who’s both the first and last; the manifest and hidden; the creator and destroyer, is necessary for this reason. The excess of religious art and architecture thrills […]
With a name like Lily, she had to endure Bullets flew all around her like swarms of stinging bees since the day she was born.
by Paweł Markiewicz We think of the fascinating charm. We fantasize about wizardry. We ponder on the amazing bard. We reflect on poetic beauty.
Pull me up Burden overburden I’m sinking very fast this is more than my fair share of the cross, I must bear.