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jana-hough
First he was a god then a mythical hero In acquiescence I offered myself and  became a magical scroll to be enunciated by his little mouth Or  fondled by hyperactive fingers, overlong and nuanced yellow As reward he Invited me on A  hallowed quest Scattered like Osiris Remnants  of himself to be discovered and restored but at my approach he turned to dust the quest was cursed Death will always be his domain of choice Only myself I unearthed, discarded,prettily painted and on a rickety shelf
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Dec 27, 2025
Dec 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM UTC
First he was a god
In Africa the rain Is not subtle It is a fierce woman that blurs the lines demands attention pounds her fist a whiplash voice to nourish to feed her children or in spells of howling rage will drown their little faces
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Dec 5, 2025
Dec 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM UTC
In Africa the rain is not subtle
the poem does not belong to me ( I am distraught ) a constipated sentence fill this void a ****** page a coveted space of impotence even if I foretell the poem it is not mine it resides as an infant of words in the world of crossings of in between perhaps if I'm worthy I will be chosen and hear the music it is over yonder a cadence of thoughts reposing unborn souls in serpentine waves of dream stained colour Im rendered bare defeated and will admit: the creativity I seek is sadly just a subterfuge to loiter by the entrance of that cosmic world
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Nov 30, 2025
Nov 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM UTC
The poem does not belong to me
I have become a lover no longer ridiculous or poor Or even dead My little bottom Is now being stroked ever so very gently
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Nov 29, 2025
Nov 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM UTC
I have become a lover
What happens when we deny our shadows? when we incarcerate darkness In the sequestered basement of our mind.. one day they become real very sneakily they solidify and grow, and lo and behold now they are Trump, Netanyahu vying for your smile, your very soul Like an old friend you try to place, recognition is not instant,but familiarity makes you pliant, evil must be good, the franchise of sin is abject disavowal Your once ***** secrets and tainted virtue are giddily appeased in the bleak light of day:"they speak the truth!"you exclaim I can feel it in my core, of all that is good” but I can assure you, it's only the shadows.. Yin becomes Yang if you don't catch it.
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Nov 29, 2025
Nov 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM UTC
Yin becomes Yang if you dont catch it
you don't have to mask for me Its obsolete I have already unravelled into sea spray the undulating poetry of the sea -the sand craves the rhythm of my seductive elocution although with repetitive verse I pulverise it to nothing- currently I inhabit an immortal wave it's perfect form a recital of the universe thus free at last I become a saga of this endless storm of gain and loss
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Nov 17, 2025
Nov 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM UTC
You don't have to mask for me
the gods we all worship are children and rightly so! the awe I feel the reverence you bring to these beings of little borrowed universes' depositing their alien light their sparkling love to a world uncharted to parents unknown but now we defecate in their sacred places and offerings are rotting on the alters the holy wall is bloated with little toes and tiny fingers And so what to say about Palestine? We are all cursed We are all cursed
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Nov 17, 2025
Nov 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM UTC
What to say about Palestine
It used to be: A delicate constitution, frayed nerves perhaps hysteria… as a woman ( Frued accused) you are prone to it And these days: Is it AdHd, Autism? or the hypersensitive person.. my homeopathic doctor prescribes some pills and suggests this most likely But it is irrelevant Because the centre of me, cannot be pinpointed, it is too allusive to be read and dissected Instead it becomes something else now it expands to become my wooden room It metamorphoses into crust filled dishes, the sticky floor, a mysterious puddle, fruit flies already in languid pursuit In fact every detail in the room are consciousness infused my runaway self blesses each object godlike with self reproaching prattle The yellowing broccoli chastises itself it should have gone in the fridge apparently the household doesn't compost anymore Oh the indignity of being food waste! The sink roof drives itself crazy with discordant squeaking it blames the racket on the wind it must be tone death The noise is deafening, my body is curled up in a ball, rocking In rhythm to cacophonous whispers But silence does eventually come: Even in the greying water of too old dishes, the room cautiously intuit a change What is hideous blurs and the contour of beauty finds shape an emerging sun, the room is in awe In the light I see myself reflected, now standing in the centre Of this wooden house
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Nov 15, 2025
Nov 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM UTC
The Wooden House
It is as it should be: I manage  a morsel of impuissant gum the axe  fleetingly whistles it's regrets but neglects to see it It could be a tear, you see, or  the virtuous wound of the denounced martyr, but now its just gum awkwardly sticking to the exposed member of this bling garish steel Still I can't deny the inevitability: I have through connected rings a way into the universe (a reluctant Oracle: PTSD flashes   of my body tied up, shaved into oblivion) But maybe its right for these limbs to be used, goddess or ***** becoming whatever you entice it to be, opening  up in gaping welcome, an oscillating entrance for the multitude or the discerning blade sizing up my flesh,scavenging  exclusively for artful gains in my delightful corpse… a choleric   eye, hostile hands, a body circumspectly in gesture of deviance It is as it should be: Symbiotic hands whittle  away slivers of death, tenderly sandpapering errant shards from my now raging living face to once again behold the seasons
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Nov 15, 2025
Nov 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM UTC
The tree as it's being cut