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Khoisan Nov 2024
Attend a daydream
Imagination talks
on recreational walks
  Nov 2024 Khoisan
Elizabeth Squires
sorrow's lament plays
on the violin's sad strings
for victims of war
  Nov 2024 Khoisan
Maria Etre
Someone told me
"love looks at decent
ones "

I nodded, sighed, and smirked
but love
made me
like
this

Unleashed my curls
broke my walls
shattered
my people-pleasing
sharpened my poetry
silenced my loud voice
widened my eyes
encouraged my heart
undressed my façade
made me dance naked
in the face of judgement,
sing the songs of truth
and fall in love with
all things wrong
right, left, ugly, beautiful
and gave strength
to the choice that
always stood in the back
but now takes center stage

"Love left me right",
"Love leaving, made me write"
I replied
*Right, write!
  Nov 2024 Khoisan
Thirty Nine
So much can happen in 14 minutes
He can grab the rope from his closet
And search up how to tie a noose
Then he’ll go to the kitchen
And drag his mothers chair
To his room
And all he’ll write
Is “I’m sorry”
He’ll be gone before you know it
Khoisan Nov 2024
We **** the enemy
a governed philosophy
an unseen soldier
  Nov 2024 Khoisan
Zywa
I'm invisible

when I read a poem, I'm --


eavesdropping on it.
Maria Barnas on Mia You, in the review of You's poetry collection "Festival" (2024), in the NRC of November 8th, 2024

Collection "Within the walls"
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