Submissions by Art_ellie7
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th May 2023 11:58am
25th May 2023 11:58am
Society
In the morning, you put on that pretty face,
And meet them all over, I meet them too.
Smiling is mutating, it should be recognised
As how humans express grief, hatred, depression...
People sit on the sides of the roads and along the kiosks
Like they are waiting for something, maybe someone, maybe death.
And they put on masks and talk about other people,
And how their lives ain't happy. Do you see it?
Do you see how pain and failure and poverty
Creates bonds and relationships? I believe
The bad side ain't that after all. Rumours...
And meet them all over, I meet them too.
Smiling is mutating, it should be recognised
As how humans express grief, hatred, depression...
People sit on the sides of the roads and along the kiosks
Like they are waiting for something, maybe someone, maybe death.
And they put on masks and talk about other people,
And how their lives ain't happy. Do you see it?
Do you see how pain and failure and poverty
Creates bonds and relationships? I believe
The bad side ain't that after all. Rumours...
#morality
205 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th May 2023 4:37pm
18th May 2023 4:37pm
Lost in Nairobi
She was almost sixteen or so,
And clueless,
It was 10 pm in the night,
And I was lost in the CBD.
Somewhere around Haile Selassie,
She was new I could tell,
I wasn't,
I had been around long enough but not long enough to know the entire city,
Just,long enough,
To have eaten all its kales from sewer dumpsites and its Madness,
And its madness wasn't as delicious as those kales.
Promise.
I was to be on a bus by 10.30,
That very night,
She had been dropped off I don't know from where,
But she needed help. ...
And clueless,
It was 10 pm in the night,
And I was lost in the CBD.
Somewhere around Haile Selassie,
She was new I could tell,
I wasn't,
I had been around long enough but not long enough to know the entire city,
Just,long enough,
To have eaten all its kales from sewer dumpsites and its Madness,
And its madness wasn't as delicious as those kales.
Promise.
I was to be on a bus by 10.30,
That very night,
She had been dropped off I don't know from where,
But she needed help. ...
#shadows
#silence
#TruthOfLife
136 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
27th Mar 2023 7:34am
27th Mar 2023 7:34am
Tame
In black and white
In a society where nobody is tamed,
Everyone is wild.
And the dogs have proven it once and again that.
Where freedoms are curtailed,
There's bitterness.
There's societies in my society,
And in the upper society no one is tamed.
So everyone is wild.
Like lions,
Like hyenas,
Like bats,
They do whatever they want in the light and in the dark.
Talk of them slapping or shooting innocent Kenyans.
Talk of them vanishing billions into thin air.
Talk of dams,
Funded, but cconstructed...
In a society where nobody is tamed,
Everyone is wild.
And the dogs have proven it once and again that.
Where freedoms are curtailed,
There's bitterness.
There's societies in my society,
And in the upper society no one is tamed.
So everyone is wild.
Like lions,
Like hyenas,
Like bats,
They do whatever they want in the light and in the dark.
Talk of them slapping or shooting innocent Kenyans.
Talk of them vanishing billions into thin air.
Talk of dams,
Funded, but cconstructed...
#identity
#music
#morality #tradition
#morality #tradition
232 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
14th Mar 2023 6:12am
14th Mar 2023 6:12am
Lover
I am part of you,
And you of I,
When death comes,
My soils will lay by thine,
My spirit,
Will flock in a wind same as yours,
You are my belongings,
And I belong to you,
Come rain,come shine,
You are as an umbrella,
I must forever have.
And you of I,
When death comes,
My soils will lay by thine,
My spirit,
Will flock in a wind same as yours,
You are my belongings,
And I belong to you,
Come rain,come shine,
You are as an umbrella,
I must forever have.
#happiness
#love
260 reads
2 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
2nd Feb 2023 8:40am
2nd Feb 2023 8:40am
Dawn blushes
#boyfriend
#girlfriend
#relationships #romantic
#relationships #romantic
450 reads
6 Comments
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