The Art of Love
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: ÀNÌKÉ- Day 15 The Art of Love the night your pain was full of yeast, you stretched my elastic voice to a being at the other end of your bed, say it feels better, say it…
Everything lit!
Everything lit!
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Our Love Will Flower
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: ÀNÌKÉ- Day 14 Our Love Will Flower like a garden where memories do not die, where evening setting sun is beauty sighing on imperfections, on broken dreams & bodies mourning into hollows & absence. our love…
The art & aesthetics of red roses
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: ÀNÌKÉ- Day 13 The art & aesthetics of red roses in the poem, the room has your fingerprints on everything. on the wall, our photographs are stories that have survived drought. your laughter held answers to…
LISTEN – ALEXIS KARPOUZOS
By Alexis karpouzos: Listen, if stars are still lit it means there is someone who needs them. It means someone wants to love, Why then do we feel so much pain and heaviness of heart? are we waiting for something,…
MAYBE – ALEXIS KARPOUZOS
By Alexis karpouzos: i know that i shall meet my shadow, one day, is our fate. I know that, someday, the light ends for us and the deadly gravity will absorb us. But then, without space and time, without life…
WHY – ALEXIS KARPOUZOS
By Alexis karpouzos: Why must I lose everything I own? Why must I lose all I have loved All that I desire, all that I’ve known? Time is Relentless, dauntless. Like a fleeting moment, like a speck of dust In…
Because love is the language of celestials
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: ÀNÌKÉ- Day 12 Because love is the language of celestials & I have known love as intimately as a boy knows his mother’s call. I have kissed the moon’s collarbone & knows how it feels to…
Stay Tonight
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: ÀNÌKÉ- Day 11 Stay Tonight let’s calibrate our hearts with longings, let’s remove the spectacle on the night’s eyes & let her watch our dwindling bodies scouting desires with fingers & moans, let her watch in…
Ife Oloyin
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: ÀNÌKÉ- Day 10 Ife Oloyin ~after listening to Beautiful Nubia Ànìké, here is my love, take, eat & be full. here is my heart, make music of its beats. here is my body, pin it to…
Ode to love
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: ÀNÌKÉ- Day 9 Ode to love because there is always something familiar about twilights where silence blooms with the memory of a black girl, like the shore on your chest, once, I laid my head &…
A love song with plenty birds & baritones
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: ÀNÌKÉ- Day 8 A love song with plenty birds & baritones even in the dark, what shows us the way is another body. -Romeo Oriogun & you’ve shown me ways out of me, out of the…
Ayanfe
By Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale: ÀNÌKÉ- Day 7 Ayanfe this poem begins with the road that led me to you, blessed be the birds singing your name between tree branches, blessed be the moon compassing me from rivers to cities, to…