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Content tagged with poetry
Bolanlejesu Akinola
city Dublin, Ireland
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
Release Yourself Too
I see the four walls you built around meI know what a cage looks likeYou used me to aid your satisfactionAre you pleased now?Now that I give everyt...
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Bint As-samt🧚🏻
city Lagos, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
Born Into The Unknown.🧚🏻
There she was—Lost in a room filled with emotions.Covered in blood, but it wasn’t pain that confused her… it was identity.She didn’t know who she w...
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Bint As-samt🧚🏻
city Lagos, Nigeria
In Mental Health
She’S Feels Insecure, Again.🥹
There she was, seeking validation again.She looked in the mirror.A little makeup on my face wouldn’t hurt today, she thought again.She put up the c...
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3 upvotes
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Praise Agunna
city Port Harcourt, Nigeria
In Africa
Voices Unbound
Voices unbound, our sorrows unleashed We scream and hope our voices are heardWe cry, blood dripping freely from our eyesOur mothers wail, their han...
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5 upvotes
1 comment
Bint As-samt🧚🏻
city Lagos, Nigeria
In Relationships
A One Sided Love, Sigh.🧚🏻
Ohhh, my dear beloved,Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever truly meet you.I sit at night,My mind wanders—Then the thought of youMakes it stop.Gives me t...
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Bint As-samt🧚🏻
city Lagos, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
The Art Of Noticing.🧚🏻
The heart once sought noise.The soul was loud—needing the littlest attention,yet never settling.Always seeking.It couldn’t sit with itself,not even...
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Bolanlejesu Akinola
city Dublin, Ireland
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
What Does It Feel Like To Be Chosen?
Be everyone's hero every day but sometimes step away to break downCry and pat your shoulders all by yourselfEveryone sees you but they don't really...
367 views
4 upvotes
2 comments
Dolapo Oludairo
city Ado-Odo, Nigeria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
Tethered
All my life, I’ve searched for purpose.Or maybe… I tried to define it.Tried to mold it into something tangible —something I could carrylike a name,...
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Esther Omemu
city Paris, France
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
For The Poets Who’Ve Borrowed Their Metaphors
To be a poet without a story feels like an irony because everyone assumes you must have suffered greatly to write something beautiful. That great a...
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7 upvotes
6 comments
Bolanlejesu Akinola
city Dublin, Ireland
In Literature, Writing and Blogging
A Love Letter
Best in loveYou make love so easyI see your sincerityIt's the pureness of your heartThe integrity of your spiritYour humble mindHow can I resist yo...
302 views
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