It is much easier not to read the lines of this chapbook than to read it. Because what you find in here might melt your heart away. Actually, On Tenterhooks was created for this. It tells the story of life and love from the scratch through the kismet and the […]
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Sweet Taste of Shame
Sweet Taste of Shame is a play fashioned around teenage pregnancy and abuse of female children. The author using a particular lead character, Ene, was able to expose the fiery fire endured by female children who unfortunately find themselves with a bump of shame (pregnancy). He went further to build […]
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OVERPRICED BRIDE
Never mind overpriced bride
You are just a work of art
Always at the auction table
Seeking for the highest bid
Living from hand to hand
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The Futility of Wisdom
These are the words of the Teacher, King David’s son, who ruled in Jerusalem. “Everything is meaningless,” says the Teacher, “completely meaningless!” What do people get for all their hard work under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth never changes. The sun rises and the sun […]
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Black Bird – A Rape Story
Painting is for pictures too hard to understand so let me paint you a picture of a girl who has a little too much to understand.. her heart was a two ton brick in her fist that kept her pinned to the exact spot on the ground he wanted her […]
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Without You. Without You
The blue skies don’t feel so blue The daisies have lost their hue The wise words don’t seem so true Without you, without you The green fields don’t feel so green I’m staring at an empty screen Everything’s lost in between Without you, without you The yellow sun is not […]
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My Kids Must Meet Meat
Do I really have to groan before you know that I am grown or be here before you can hear me? You won’t hire me because I have a higher degree; wouldn’t be right to write that my throne is thrown away; threw through the window of wants to face […]
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Advice To A Son
Never trust a white man, Never kill a Jew, Never sign a contract, Never rent a pew. Don’t enlist in armies; Nor marry many wives; Never write for magazines; Never scratch your hives. Always put paper on the seat, Don’t believe in wars, Keep yourself both clean and neat, Never […]
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Your love is scorching
Your love is scorching – Victor Eshameh I hear say you are waiting to die before you tell me you love me. I hear say you are waiting for me to die before you say you care for me. Could it be that I’ve wasted my lifetime thinking about […]
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Not The Girl I Use To Know
You’re not the girl I used to know you’re a shadow of yourself I think I lost you long ago Like a book that’s left the shelf I hear the footsteps down the hall and I know someday that will be you leaving me, for good I’ve been sitting here […]
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Lean on me
Lean on me, when you’re not strong
And I’ll be your friend
I’ll help you carry on
For it won’t be long
‘Til I’m gonna need
Somebody to lean on
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When I Think About Myself
When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death, My life has been one great big joke, A dance that’s walked A song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself. Sixty years in these folks’ world The child I works for […]
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Our Deepest Fear
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness That most frightens us.We ask ourselves Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are […]
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Early January
Rudely, the breeze of harmattan slapped our door soundly that ears got handicapped and scooping water to kiss the body seemed a taboo and without it, scales would germinate on the body. Pathetically, some issues of blood will be made manifest even with nothing to feed their large mouths with […]
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A Word To Husbands
To keep your marriage brimming With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up Also See: Best Sellers in Kitchen and Dinning A Word To Husbands was written by Ogden Nash
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