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168 · Sep 2021
THE VIEW
HOPE Sep 2021
A beautiful Spring Monday
with lilies dancing in the sun
with the melodies of the bees chanting
like happy feets in the musical concert

The butterflies roaming around
wearing their colourful clothing
which they cannot see
yet the world can

It looks overwhelming,
you should see the view
168 · Jun 2022
WITHIN A MOMENT
HOPE Jun 2022
There is this sadness,
I haven't felt in a minute,
It feels as though blood is dripping,
out of my heart
And my eyes are drowning,
in the deepest ocean
Once again today,
I'm not strong,
I found weakness within my sadness...
167 · Sep 2021
THE END
HOPE Sep 2021
Of what once was called love,
The enigmatic intimacy
sparkling as diamonds
Ocean blue as violets,
Look, it doesn't look red as Roses anymore

Flashback sails within the galaxy
As clouds journeys within the sky
Grief has taken over the dance
And happy feet seem to find no rhythm
In the end all withered, like flowers it did
166 · Aug 2021
ENEMY OF MANKIND
HOPE Aug 2021
You vowed lifetime
Yet you gave half of the time

You strategized our alleviation
Within the face of the universe
If I could stroll the heaven with you
Yet you vanished, all alone
And captured half of my heart

Split second on the clock
Ticking and ticking soundlessly
To forecast we are running against time
Maybe I would have mastered to let go

But look, the enemy of mankind,
Like a rushing mighty wind came
And grab you within a blink of an eye
And left my heart bleeding
Oh let this God see through this pain,
That I feel entitled to ask "why"
As He effectuated a cryptic pierce within thine heart,
Yet you are stronger up there than you could ever be in here
Shona Ferguson Tribute
164 · Jun 2020
FAIRYTALE
HOPE Jun 2020
I was never ready,
ready to give him my heart
I was never ready,
ready for the lost keys of my heart to be found
I buried them, too deep

But thyne heart decided to betray thee,
and open doors which faith was lost upon
With tremble and fear she fell,
and to the hands like strong tower she landed
Just like a fairytale romance, so was her love story
162 · Nov 2020
ADVENTURES OF LIFE
HOPE Nov 2020
The antiquity of thy beam
Slowly swinging into gloom
Like the ancientness of thy giggle
That rotated into bunch of sniffle

Seventh heaven into blaze
Paradise meeting flame
Conveyed by chariot of fire
It's life full of adventures
Our lives came already patterned. Like a mountain high and a mountain low
161 · Apr 2021
COLOUR OF HATRED
HOPE Apr 2021
Freedom declared
From hands of Pharaoh
But art have been mastered
Painted ourselves with colour of hatred

Blue rising against another blue
Self taught of being not good enough
Envying another instead of congratulations
Convincing one self that wealth is not a friend

Propaganda has anything to do with blue
Prison cells full of broken African souls
As convinced that we are worthy of conviction
Even persuaded of guilty of a fellow before proven otherwise
161 · Feb 2022
AN ANGEL OF NO COMPASSION
HOPE Feb 2022
The execution take place without our Will,
Yes! No! Steadfast or not,
The Angel shows no compassion.

You board the train already geared to take off,
With no alert who will be getting off from here,
You or the passenger next to you!
161 · Aug 2023
THE HEART KNOWS
HOPE Aug 2023
I met someone the other day,
Turns out to be a long lost piece of the puzzle
How I know? the heart always knows

Must be in the way his heart beats out of tune,
whenever I lay my head on his chest,
As he wrap his arms around me
That I know I found the one

It's in the way he get lost within my eyes
And I suddenly feel butterflies in my tummy
The way he hold my hand
And I instantly desire to dive right in

My heart has found its home
How I know? the heart always knows
159 · Aug 2023
ENGRAVED 11
HOPE Aug 2023
My heart desires
had always been to grow old with you,
Little did I know that life had already chosen my fate

That I'll remain alone as a motherless child,
And learn to find wings to fly out of my brokenness,
As I stand tall as the stick

My heart desires is no longer out of  choice,
It's either I stay and be consumed or I rise and conquer
159 · Feb 2022
UNTITLED
HOPE Feb 2022
Sometimes I dive in the ocean I'm unable to swim,
Too deep and three hundred and sixty degree freezing,
A trauma on its own right?

Well, I drown while wearing my smiling face,
with no one to pull me up,
but a pen and a piece of a paper.
158 · Oct 2020
I WISH TO MARRY A POET
HOPE Oct 2020
I wish to marry a poet
Who will pen me down
In such a magnificent way
And make me drown
In the ocean of his words all day

I wish to marry a poet
Whom the theory of his ink
Will channel him to find inspiration in me
As I turn him on through each wink
Like the universe belong to him and his rhyme

I wish to marry a poet
Who will turn our love story
Into a fairytale triangle
Like a startling light of the glory
Shining bright like a candle
Imagine having to read one of the piece about you so sweet and fascinating that you even shed a tear because the things written down just overwhelms you.
156 · Oct 2021
IT IS GOD
HOPE Oct 2021
When she hold on in a breaking moment
Through emotions no one would understand,
It is Him

When she lays down under the tears of heaven
That ushers tears on her eyes
To the glimpse of heaven,
It is Him

When she think she is healing
Then in between breaks down
Yet never gives up,
It is Him

That uphold her hand
Capture her heart
And never let go,
It is God
156 · May 2021
JESUS NATION
HOPE May 2021
Put on her shield
Raise the double-edged sword
Placed within the palm of her hand
Just like Moses she will lead

Clothed with piety
Take on the sling, put on stones
Mouth full of praises
Like David she will subdue

A warrior of exactitude
Rising against the Amorite
Full of dispute
To authenticate

Possessing like Joshua
Dominating like Judah
And birthing new creation like Mary
For she is of Jesus Nation
154 · Mar 2023
ENGRAVED 9
HOPE Mar 2023
Faith, Hope, love,
Laughter, smile,
Even ray of sunshine,
I had it all

Until the clouds beat the drums,
And uncertainty arose,
I lost it all
Yet I once had it all
153 · Jul 2022
HOPE,
HOPE Jul 2022
is when the pain within my wounds
deepens,
yet I choose nor death neither life,

I just aspire to be OKAY!
#hope #healing #newdawn
151 · Aug 2021
BELOVED DAUGHTER
HOPE Aug 2021
Worthless and rejected
As your servant Joseph
Yet you carried me through

Discouraged and weary
As your beloved David
Yet you held me close

While the world convinced me
I wasn't meant to be loved
Unconditional love you showed me

I came with nothing
As empty as the sky
Dispirited like a sheep without a shepherd
Yet I became your everything, Daddy!!
God loves me that much
151 · Dec 2022
UNTITLED
HOPE Dec 2022
Trying to make calculations of it all,
Nothing seems to make sense
Everything is just shackles of glasses,
Where it is forever new,
Feels like there is nothing to look forward to

Others grieve their loved ones,
Others have no meal to share amongst each other,
But others have, Yet with no one to share it with,
Others tries to keep it together,
Yet it feels like it doesn't wanna be kept

Lord, we are so empty,
So is this Christmas...
146 · Apr 2021
I WANT TO GO HOME
HOPE Apr 2021
Till our eyes were ocean deep in the red sea
God knows we prayed
Till our bodies could no longer race against our heartbeat
God knows we prayed for you
Stood in the gap for the life of an amicable soul
As if we had the supernaturals to stop the universe
But still you said, "I wanna go home"

Courageous Ella
Full of cheeky laugh
Unexplainable aurora
I watched you ride beneath a new born sun
Just like horses embarking on a rote of new Jerusalem
That we are all set to paddle upon one of the good days
When time begin to run against the clock

One beautiful morning
God called you to stroll the heaven with him
Held your hand to let you smell the roses full of life
And danced through the melodies only played in heaven
I can picture you looking at your mommy and your daddy
Whispering "I love you but I wanna go home,
Tell Raphaella she'll never be alone, I'm now her angel"
Basking into the arms of the Father wearing crown of victory
In loving memory of Israella Bushiri.. Fly little angel
146 · Nov 2020
FLASHBACK OF THE PAST
HOPE Nov 2020
Whether it proceeded
A day before
An hour after
A minute ahead off
Or even a second prior to
Still its considered the chronicle

Even if memories were pioneered
To never fade away
Imminently
It all becomes blurry
Transformed into past
HOPE Jan 2021
He took my hand
Lead me to his bed
And I trusted him

Gave me sweets
Let me sit on his lap
And I smiled

He started to unbuttoned my dress
Touching my small rounded babies
Stroking my lips
While my smile faded

I tried holding on to my dress
Tears threatening my eyes
While looking through his eyes
As he turned into a monster

He continued to tore it into pieces
Rushing to take the underwear off
And finally I'm naked before him
As he bite his lip off now and then

Pushing me to the bed
Thrushing his ****
In and out of my well
Breathing heavily on top of me
Busy satisfying his quench

While I bled and bled
Staining his sheets
While he stained my heart
And took away my innocence
Maybe I didn't tell him to stop
143 · Sep 2022
DEAR PAIN,
HOPE Sep 2022
I acknowledge you,
I feel your presence,

Just one request,
Please, don't stay forever.
142 · Jan 2021
THROUGH LOCKED PALM
HOPE Jan 2021
As I dine here
In this lonely nights
beside my shadow
All alone full of thoughts

Fixing these eyes
through the sunset
that keeps deeming
and deeming deep to the west
overshadowing this tiny light
Shining through thee hour glass

I dine here
drowned from this rain
of this thunder, this storm
Feeling weary and worn-out
While the sunrise lies
within the locked palm of thyne hand
Sometimes you just have to look within you and you'll realize that for the the sun to rise on your favor, it lies within you
141 · Feb 2021
I MISS ME
HOPE Feb 2021
I miss her
The one who used to smile
Blush over tiny things over and over again
And chuckle over the sound of her laughter

I miss her
The one who used to own happiness
Roaming around the colourful butterflies
Until she could feel butterflies in her tummy

I miss her
Young girl full of impossible dreams
That kept her day dreaming throughout the day
Whereas they were just fairytale that kept her faith

I miss her
Who didn't think of tomorrow
Just taking the day as it came
Allowing herself to breath

I miss me
Not this one full of endless thoughts
Which are drying up her bones
Who carry the universe on her shoulders
140 · Jan 2021
YOU WERE GONE
HOPE Jan 2021
I waited for you on the roadside
Under the umbrella shadow you made
And I lingered till the sun fade
Yet you never appeared
#FourLinePoetry
139 · Dec 2020
EXCRUCIATION
HOPE Dec 2020
This sensation
Deep within thee
Enclosed beyond the margin

The perceive of agony
Concealed in a vast
Silently within thee
Like a bird lured on a trap

Its these phrases
These tales
Apprehended within the mind
Like a conviction of an unblemished soul
Yammering with excruciation
138 · Feb 2021
LOVE
HOPE Feb 2021
Eyes wide open like a bulb
Shining through the night
Yet love makes us blind
138 · Dec 2021
HOPE (HAIKU)
HOPE Dec 2021
It is aesthetic when you smile,
You become a blooming flower,
That is nourishing hope.
#HopeWhispersLikeFlowers
137 · Jan 2021
ENDLESS AGONY
HOPE Jan 2021
Every evening dawn
When eyes are never closed
Filled with tears of endless agony
The heart is forever breaking
Sinking deep into lifeless land
Where life becomes more impossible
Yet forever revealing this dimple smile of mine
Maybe if you can ask my pillow
It might show you how its drowning
137 · Feb 2021
BE MY VALENTINE
HOPE Feb 2021
This morning he gave me the longest hug of them all
Looked me in the eyes with his shining blue eyes
Tears escaping before he could utter these three words
"I love you" while handing me this box
Beautifully wrapped a million times with colour of love

You should have seen me overwhelmed
Kissing his cheeks with the box in my hands
Smile widely spread eagerly rushing to see what is inside
Could it be chocolate, a card, a teddy bear maybe
I kept on guessing while my hands kept digging

There was nothing huge inside but a piece of a paper
I looked confused while going through it
But the paper read "My heart couldn't fit
On that box, that's where I carry you with me each day.
Be my valentine once more and let me love you for eternity"
Love is a beautiful thing. When you find it cherish it and hold on to each other. Let valentine be Everyday ❤️
135 · Jan 2022
UNTITLED
HOPE Jan 2022
No life came with a manual in this universe,
Maybe the ability of pausing oxygen to nasal cavity, yes!

But we keep parading,
On peak and melancholic,
Sometimes with a turtle ramble

Like sand through the hour glass,
So are the days of our lives.
135 · Jul 2021
OUR NATION IS BURNING
HOPE Jul 2021
Lying there helpless
Heart beating against the clock
Drowning on the pool of his blood

A lighter in their hands
Burning sensation within them
Blink of an eye, already inhaling smoke
Its flame, flame and flame after flame

Laboratory, hospitals in flames
Coffins in the middle of the roads
Corpses decomposing in houses
"Brown is brainless" they say

I close my ears
To the sound of each trigger
As I say a silent prayer
"God, preservation of life"

Smell peace for the last time
As white swivel to red
Then red to ashes
Back to before 1994, I long to see freedom

Because our nation is burning
Pray for South Africa. All feels like a horror
135 · Jan 2021
FRACTURED PSYCHE
HOPE Jan 2021
Behind every smile of hers
Lies invisible bleed
Bleeding through internally
Yet it is covered with a smirk

Of every echo of her enchanting
Chuckle that abscond
Through her lips
Lies a fractured psyche
And there is a tear everytime that she blink

There lies a lifeless soul
with fractured pieces
Like a decrypted case
That keeps her mourning
Throughout the evening dawn
Yet too occupied to survey
134 · Sep 2020
REGRETS 2
HOPE Sep 2020
Wasted moment
Over collection of stones
Turning them lime
More like chrome

Older I'm getting
Feeling all weary
Deeper with regrets
Just allowing it to rain

Maybe I should have
Tried to confuse fate
Causing this heaviness
Dwelling on this pale page
133 · Dec 2020
SCENT OF THY INK
HOPE Dec 2020
Half pass midnight
Just a while ago
The scent of thy ink
Within her nostrils of passion
Kept faulting her of remissness
Until it landed on her palm at last
133 · Jan 2021
TWO HEART
HOPE Jan 2021
Just two imperfect mates
Breeding perfection
through each other's imperfections

The pertinacious hearts
Breeding immortal devotion
through incredulous twinkies
130 · Feb 2021
OUT OF OUR HAND
HOPE Feb 2021
If time was on our hand
Like the sand in an hour glass
Why would we still break when we band?
Or be in precipitousness in case it lapse?
I'll be moving like a tortoise till I land
While detaining power of beauty that surpass
The possessive nature which place us in demand
129 · Jul 2021
UNTITLED
HOPE Jul 2021
Migration of stars and the moon
Dancing around in circle like lovers do
Doesn't look titillating without you
128 · Feb 2021
WE ALL HAVE DAYS
HOPE Feb 2021
We all have days
Full of smiles
Where we stare through the rising of the sun
And lazing around through the warmth of the sunset
As we dance through the movement of the blue moon
And count the stars as they appear

We all have days
Full of uncertainty
Where the sun no longer shines through our windows
And we just stare through the walls full of darkness
Wishing if those walls could talk just once
And listen to the dance of thunders within thy heart
128 · Jun 2021
Mama, Happy birthday
HOPE Jun 2021
Many years ago
On this very day
God allowed you
To share your loudest cry
Turning into a contagious smile

A visionary
A lover
A mother
Who even lost one of her breed
I call you a general with scars

Here I am
With the pen in my palm
Strolling smoothly like a silk cloth
Yet I thought the ink would be dry
But how will it dry on a special day,
When the poet only release what is buried deep inside?
It is my mother birthday, and I told myself I will not write long caption as words are never enough.
128 · Aug 2023
ENGRAVED 15
HOPE Aug 2023
If grief was not love,
I wouldn't be here,
With a bleeding wound,
Feeling the feel that I feel,

Though ancient it seems,
Deeper is the bleeding,
And forever dripping

All of me wish you were here,
To answer these million questions at hand,
"Why, how, did you?"
Yet it goes forever unanswered,
And turns into a voicemail

If grief was not love,
I wouldn't be here
Listening to the Sunday Blues
128 · Sep 2020
YOU SHOULD HAVE
HOPE Sep 2020
You should have given me a guarantee,
For me to never end up in quarantine,
All alone yearning of your affection,
While securing more detention...
126 · Mar 2021
HOPE'S QUOTES 3
HOPE Mar 2021
Life is not complicated, we just have a tendency of complicating it.
123 · Nov 2021
ENGRAVED 2
HOPE Nov 2021
I took the photo album out today
Of what we call our frozen memories,
I hold dear to my heart
How I wish I got to hold you forever,
not just these pieces of papers in my hand

Sometimes I hide behind my smile
Sometimes I find a corner and just let it rain
Yet you taught me that every that I misses you,
I must look up in the sky
But there is a tear everytime that I blink
And sometimes I go insane,
neither lose myself when the emotions weighs up

I realized I'm not strong enough when I miss you,
Oh I'm engraved forever...
#JourneyOfGrieve
122 · Feb 2021
THIS IS NOT GOODBYE
HOPE Feb 2021
I'm still gonna see you
In the midnight dreams

Your eyes full of sparkle
Ocean blue in the Mediterranean
In the middle of summer

I will be holding you
Through pocket sized necklace
You gave me while dancing under the stars

The photo album
We created the other night
While promising each other infinity

While dancing like old times
When they play our song on the Radio
And our feet just twitching to every beat

I'm still gonna see you
Because this is not goodbye
120 · Sep 2020
CAPTURED HEART
HOPE Sep 2020
I love you
More like fine wine
As you persue
Through my whining
Till you capture me through your heart

I love you
Through cracky roads
Even wind blew
Breaking all cords
Like a hunk breaking hearts

You adores me
Though I'm sticky like a gum
Irritating like a bee
More like a broken drum
But still my heart is captured
119 · Dec 2021
ENGRAVED 19
HOPE Dec 2021
I am switched back to the factory restore
From fully charged,
to connect your device
Smile within our faces,
to Sunday morning blues
Holy night under the stars,
Christmas carols with burning candles,
and I look at yours with no one to hold it

Our song on the radio "Oh holy night, the son of Mary"
I sing my part, look over my shoulder,
close my eyes, to think I'll hear your voice,
as you sing your part,
yet nothing but breezes of trees

Everything is new even life where you are not on it, it's new
Even this Christmas without you,
is filled with fresh water from the moon
Like Mary, I have embarked on a journey,
I never prepared myself for
Oh! I'm Engraved forever...
#JourneyOfGrieve
118 · Jun 2020
DEAR GOD
HOPE Jun 2020
Dear our Father who art in heaven
during this pandemic,
where our eyes don't dry of tears,
where fear eat at the palm of our hands,
and there is grinding of teeth,
Believe me when I say,
I wish I can long for money,
but at this moment I don't
Believe me also when I say,
I wish I can long for materialistic things,
but they all don't matter but life do
Rich, poor, you name it,
we are only after two things,
which is life and peace of mind,
The preservation of our lives,
as well as of our family and friends,
is all we long for Dear God
118 · Sep 2021
SHARE OF SCARS
HOPE Sep 2021
Once upon a time
She found a companion
Who permitted her to sail
Within the pool of his heart,
Became the beats on his lips
Forever and a lifetime
Yet he made her parade
On fractured glasses
As she pick the share of her scars
118 · May 2020
GOODNIGHT
HOPE May 2020
It still feel like yesterday,
when I held you in my arms,
and never wanted to let you go
You were mine, I was yours
Till thee wheel falls off,
and Forever and always

The scariest Beast, unexpected came,
came like rushing mighty wind,
and took you without saying goodbye
I moan and groan till I fail to stand on my own,
just like the lilies I withered,
and half of thy heart never ressurected from thy odeal
I felt the wreath of its anger,
but never with disconnection of saying GOODNIGHT
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