Poetry: Oaklandish
Oaklandish By Fayia Sellu, Berkeley, California, USA. Prognosis: Like Brooklyn, Oakland will survive And thrive Post-gentrification From (...)
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Oaklandish By Fayia Sellu, Berkeley, California, USA. Prognosis: Like Brooklyn, Oakland will survive And thrive Post-gentrification From (...)
Fadika By Gbanabom Hallowell, Freetown. Your federal demise And the eternal Destination of this nation Speak volume To the smoke of your (...)
A Pandemic Voice By Mohamed Gibril Sesay, Freetown, Sierra Leone. A pandemic voice Vector of diseased words Like virus of Zika Giving birth (...)
Not Even These Lines By Willie James King, USA. We are spared nothing Yusef says in " Landscape for the Disappeared" and somehow I believe him (...)
Holy Freetown By Gibril G. Koroma, Vancouver, Canada. Holy Freetown holy holy holy Holy creatures of the night holy holy holy Ah the (...)
Mime and Burnishment By Fayia Sellu, USA.* Like a cupboard Was obliged to hold The overstrained, verging On hypochondria, scaffolding The 1860s (...)
Can You Kill Me? By Moses Kainwo, Freetown, Sierra Leone. can you kill me tear my flesh apart smash my brain (...)
Still I Rise - A poem by Maya Angelou You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, (...)
Cidade Velha By Saidu Bangura, Praia, Cape Verde (Cabo Verde). On these shores on this soil here, at Cidade Velha my kinsmen were brought with no (...)
New Old Dreams By Saidu Bangura, Praia, Cape Verde. New Year, new wishes new hopes new dreams new aspirations new desires new (...)
Fourah Bay Colleg! Fourah Bay College! Fourah Bay College! Did you ever read the history of the advent of Western education and influences to West (...)
By Mohamed Gibril Sesay, Freetown, Siera Leone.* I believe Therefore I am I doubt Therefore I am not Money changers at the altars Of our (...)
