Glowing box

A bustling city sidewalk people rushing to and fro would offer up a greeting ask the time, and say hello a family at dinner chatting on about their day the air filled with such laughter as children run and play   The faces on the…

Technology

We talked all the time Now that you have a cell phone We don’t even speak

Potrait

A painting lay forgotten In an old little corner New set of dark eyes Watch unnerving dead ones A caramel coloured face Full of burning scars A tilt on her mouth A lift to the eyebrow Disgust on alive one’s face At the ugly little…

Hour 4: I am free!!

It doesn’t matter that I have purple hair, Nor does it matter what I wear. What I saw looking at this picture was, Strength!! As I looked at what was surrounding me, What I thought would overtake me, I realized what was in me, It…

One, Dos, Trois

I can count to ten in Latin and speak prose in French, I can debate in fluid Italian have people laugh at my Czech. I can curse in Romanian and grumble in Russian, I can sing to Japanese, cry to Chinese haiku, dance to Deutch,…

HOUR 5

TECHNO… HELL NO!! There is no denying somewhere along the line I missed something.   With book in hand, I survey the doctor’s waiting room. To the left of me, they’re playing games on their phone. To the right of me, are texters and sexters,…

We are Women

I am my mother’s child I come by it naturally I see it in her daily And now I see it in me It’s in my sister It’s in my nieces It’s in my aunts and cousins too Women in our family We are incredibly…

Camera Obscura

As observed by Mozi, we are an image turned upside-down Aristotle’s sun was broken by wickerwork, by the leaves of a tree We are illumined, according to Theon, by unbent rays. Alhazen has given to us a dark room, an aperture for reversal, And DaVinci…

Not Defeated

When the enemy attacks, I’ve got my bible bat, I put on the whole armour, I face him and strike him, No longer will I continue to let him gain on me and hit me with his sneak attacks! For I am more than a…