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How Poems Rise Into Tomorrow by llaykorn: 6:42pm On Nov 25, 2017 |
How Poems Rise Into Tomorrow When Adamawa dies with fifty of its children You will find a news blog that has the pictures. Young bodies shrouded in white, drenched with blood maps will teach your mouth to whisper white roses, then red, then brown, then plucked before they blossomed and you will wait for the wind that takes flowers before their bloom to blow through your window and take you too to the sheltering arms of the dry sandy soil beneath Adamawa. Sometimes it is photographs from Borno that teach you how to mourn. You will hear shovels in the photographs digging to find home, and widows and mothers and sisters sobbing into their scarves, then silence ascends into your body as if the photographs held the face of fire, as if silence can also be smoke from burning towns, silence rises into you like the the footsteps of darkness, slow, sure, creeping into town at midday. When the newscaster says the names of cities, you block your ears He says Aba, he says death, he says Aleppo, he says more death and his voice is the edge of a cutlass, smooth, sharp, hacking cities into slices of pain too thin to hold between your fingers without getting cut The news teaches you that all cities are the same: there are more humans running from home, than running for home Sometimes when there's a flood somewhere, you imagine Earth as a toddler who bursts into tears after trying too hard to be strong. Tonight you're writing graves into poems, cities into poems You're writing three hundred girls that never came back home You're watching your poems shatter the darkness in the room You're smiling at the way your poems rise into tomorrow like dust and smoke and hope and the scent of roses: Brown, then red, then white, 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: How Poems Rise Into Tomorrow by gracile(f): 7:29pm On Nov 27, 2017 |
llaykorn:I love this |
Re: How Poems Rise Into Tomorrow by llaykorn: 7:00pm On Dec 01, 2017 |
gracile:Thank you, gracile! |
Re: How Poems Rise Into Tomorrow by danbrowndmf(m): 7:52pm On Dec 01, 2017 |
llaykorn:bros howfa na |
Re: How Poems Rise Into Tomorrow by llaykorn: 12:47pm On Dec 07, 2017 |
danbrowndmf: Dan Bee! Baba! How far? Give me your number abeg. |
Re: How Poems Rise Into Tomorrow by danbrowndmf(m): 2:57pm On Dec 07, 2017 |
llaykorn:,08159799587 |
Re: How Poems Rise Into Tomorrow by noble4d(m): 11:08pm On Dec 12, 2017 |
llaykorn:Good narrative bro |
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