BlogHide Reblurtswarpedpoetic in # poetry • 5 yr. ago • 1 min readdesireThe sun is west of here & there heaven sleeps. at least that is what the sages claim. i sit at my doorstep & watch the sky foam like soapy water after laundry. This life is full of tragedy but we must move. I move a lot, faraway from everything that is kind. On the bridge, watching birds entangle themselves with rivers, i hunger for…warpedpoetic in # philosophy • 5 yr. ago • 4 min readHustling in this worldI am attached to this message; please let me explain. Yesterday is still ongoing, the bells are yet to ring. By 6am the alarm will go off and you and I will start running again. We will call this new section of this race of life tomorrow. There will be no stopping halfway. Image Credit:Pixabay This hustle and bustle is what we do. The…warpedpoetic in # psychology • 5 yr. ago • 3 min readtoday's burdenToday was not a good day. I woke up with good energy, ready to take on the world. Right now my mental state is terrible. My head hurts and i don't feel like doing anything. I just want to lie down and stare at the ceiling forever. image credit:pixabay Every time i get like this i feel as if nothing matters anymore. I want to give up and…warpedpoetic in # poetry • 5 yr. ago • 2 min readMorning SongI am in your praise, bird of morning. Your aubade to sky is the sweetness on my tongue. I find love lost in my bag, among the missing things. I am in your debt, you little feather of breath in this morning sun. Do you know how far i have trudged the mount to reach here? Do you not hear the roar of rictus i left behind? Down below, there…warpedpoetic in # fiction • 5 yr. ago • 5 min readThe beginningTina closed her eyes, placed her thumb and index fingers over her nostrils, and swallowed the foul liquid. She grimaced and spat on the ground before dropping the cup on the tray. Mamus grinned at her, her eyes bright in the night. The hut was full with girls from different quarters of Odukolo village. They were there for the rites of passage…warpedpoetic in # poetry • 5 yr. ago • 2 min readdream songSomewhere far from you/the earth eats her tears & the sea is white/like bones on the shore. Out there/the sky never sets & the sun spies into space/like a winking eye. Do you know where rainbows stretch their feet? Do you hear how rain sings/in the choir of butterflies? I swear there are schools of fingers/learning to pick pockets in…warpedpoetic in # poetry • 5 yr. ago • 1 min readThis is how the world revolvesWe delight in the char of the sun, the moon eats nothing but water. We are satisfied with the hunger of the desert, the way bones grab the sky like laughter. It is not funny though when the sea licks the wound of the shore or when the palm tree tries to paint a new cloud into the forlorn sky. You must understand the redundance of our…warpedpoetic in # poetry • 5 yr. ago • 2 min readbutterfliesthe cart is filled with butterflies; this song is filled with trauma. there is a rainbow shooting arrows in the sun. there is rain in the eye of wind but let us ignore all of these & return to the cart, buttered in the grime of noon. let us gesticulate at the shadows like treasure hunters coming up for air. There is a crab cooking in…warpedpoetic in # poetry • 5 yr. ago • 1 min readThese godsthe gods are not kind, their fingers in each file of crawling shadows. they take the salt from the woman, the iron from the man, they form the corrosion, the rust. with manacles, they threaten the sun, place the' whip of sea spite on the shores of our backs. who would have thought that the sky will blacken our hearths? who would have…
