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Coldblood
A youth was shot dead by a policeman in cold blood Other youths raged! Demanding for justice! The street stood still for its fallen hero Tears flowed freely Sadly Followed by a candlelit procession led by over a thousand youths
Whisper
You, almost silent Musical prophecies with rarely discernible words but energies A self-made metaphor for your life Speak to me In a language crafted in the minuscule pause between heartbeats While I shout Everything Loud Words Are the accumulated wealth of my lifetime’s Work Laid…
Link
Ancestor continuity soften fluctuating wisp shaping smoke, curling curating and carting itself back home, replicated genome building medieval lived material, consumption becoming believing in what went before. Side step translucent symbolic branches, sweeping out to sea rescue my individual, treating as outer markings link me,…
My Billionaire Dad
There is nothing in this world that is beyond me. I am the son of a billionaire dad And as the heir to his empire, the world eats from the palm of my hand There is nothing in this world that is above me…
Replication
I turn into myself. I turn into you. Together we’re telling a new kind of truth. We’re stronger together than we’ve been on our own. And the best part is that we are never alone.
Poem 19 | {Belonging}
By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved – 5 pm 28/06/2020 Australian EST Prompt 19; Hour 19: You can use this either as an image prompt, jumping off the image below to write a poem, or you can write about what it’s like to be one…
Not Personnel
The seats faced backwards so medical personnel could face the patients… I was not medical personnel; I was a 6 year old child flying home with my Mother On the only flight available To get ‘home’ from home – RAF Wildenrath – quickly, So…
Drift
Lifestyle float – breeze drift undulating undercurrent unconvention creative veneer veil unruddered impulse, perennial recess no respite gained, restful erosion edifice strove at generations, liberty restored in starvation dust bowl fester, en-bond me in mechanistic systematic processes, grant holy days in sweet brow labor contrast,…
Poem 18 | {Road Trip} Conjoined Haikus
By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved – 4 pm 28/06/2020 Australian EST Prompt 18; Hour 18: Write a narrative poem set during a holiday. It could be a poem based on your own lived experience or it could be an imagined event. A narrative poem…