by Thandi Morweng Rain pouring in my eyes Reflecting my soul Xenophobic attack while I was in my mother’s womb Playing with her fallopean tube She couldn’t rain like a wild animal Why? Me kicking like a ball in…
Poems – Joop Bersee
Queueing up In a queue outside the museum, covered by our century, waiting to see what he saw with his brushes. Once inside, a flood of people block my view, sand in his eyes. The paintings are frozen solid on…
Raw poem
by Anna Varney-Wong The sweet melancholy Whispers from distant childhood as I walk in the soft rain. Beautiful pristine Cape Town You are in fact built on the grave yard of forced removals. One can feel the vacancy in…
A Silver
by Alexander Smith There is a silver that glides Across the heads of bushes And hides beneath each leaf. The silver which dances in The belly of the wave, Illuminates the bald skulls of the wise. Each shade greater…
PEN American Center and Israeli Government
Join over 135 notable writers and intellectuals and ask the PEN American Center to not partner with the Israeli Government. SIGN THE LETTER at https://adalahny.org/ PEN American Center, which describes itself as “the US branch of the world’s leading international…
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