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“Allow me to slowly undress your hair and make love to your ears.”

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“Woman, may you always remember your birthright. For you are salt; the jewel of the sea, the maiden with a thousand shimmers.”

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“When your mates tossed soccer balls and braided each other’s hair, you were issued a Kalashnikov, given a rag tag uniform, and set upon the path of Hannibal instead.”

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“This young maiden, blossoming in the rays of youth, my teeth chalk-white, my breasts, mangoes, ready to be plucked in season, red and ripe.”

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“Come with me to this backroom of grey behind a fortress of blood and steel, where girls who would be mothers, are carted away, codeine eyed, to quest the Holy Grail on alien soil by women who should be mothers to them.”

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“How long would we continue to hear in the news our tomorrows silenced like the lives of flies?”

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“One We are pulled to each other like paper clips into the embrace of magnetized iron like a lightning rod hailing the finger of thunder, and we can't say why.”

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“Black Girl Your skin is dark chocolate dipped in honey. You are a delicious shade of melanin.”

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“Earwax Allow me to slowly undress your hair and make love to your ears.”

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“Kiss Twin lips, surrounded by white light. The breath from my mouth make you quiver like a jellyfish, marooned on the water shore.”

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“Kiss Too Your lips are liquid wax. You kiss me, I burn.”

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“Bright Dazzle their eyes with your florescent smile, pitch tent with the waking sunset.”

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“Watermaid You walk like a river and I see you, gliding over the tide, each evening, your feet barely making prints in the sands.”

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“Swimmer You are a water nymph from the ocean rising.”

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“Moment In my arms you are a trembling leaf licked by the erotic tongue of the wind.”

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“You & I Both of us are like two hands in a painting, gliding towards each other in the dark. Trying to communicate a message, that no words, but only touch can express.”

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“Flame You burn like a candle or a hurricane lamp, your eyes, shut like a window at dusk. Your hair, orange ropes. The flames from your aura reveal a rapture of release, I see in the cleft of your teeth.”

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“I will not speak of the woman, round and heavy, like me, who will give birth to a child she’ll be ashamed to name.”

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“I light a candle for those taken from their schools against their will at noon and forced into sex slavery, at the prime of girlhood,”

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“I can never be divorced from them. Because they exist within me. I am her, the molested and the raped. I am him, the detained and the sold. I am they, the legions of people killed in regional subsidised genocides without names and buried in anonymous tombs.”

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“I Will Be Silent is not just a book to me. It is more than that. It is a call to witness. It is a series of poems which proceed not from the heart but from the gut of tribulation and endurance. It is a book which bears witness to the collected voices who cannot speak for themselves because they have been silenced.”

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“In genocides rape is most times weaponized by the aggressive side, and the suffering sides to such wickedness are women, old and young. Such actions tear at my core and reveal mankind’s depravity at its worst.”

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“Each time a child goes up as an incendiary, something within me rips open. Until a day of reckoning comes I don’t think I will ever get over the self-immolation of each of those children. And my words are inadequate to show the depth of my grief or my anger. Nothing can. Only my deliberations with silence.”

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“What is Raven from my perspective? I believe it is the collective consciousness of the suffering masses melding into one voice. I believe it is conscience personified. Perhaps, a messenger with a message. Or even, the depths of my consciousness rising to the surface. Whatever it is, “Raven” started me on a quest. And I have been on this journey for quite some time.”

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“Most times the poetic in life is found in many things around us. You would find it in the deft play of a football player on a soccer pitch. An orange sky with the descending sun at twilight. The laughter of a toddler playing with dirt. Or the feel of the wind caressing your face. Poetry most times is found in the profound.”

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“For me poetry is not the exclusive domain of academia. Stuff to be studied and dissected in college classrooms like a lab rat to find out what makes it thick. It is a form of human expression. The transference of human emotion from one person to another whether it is written or performed.”

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“Portrait True beauty is hidden in the fringes of softness. Something which summons you to experience but not to possess.”

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“Scales Balance is profit and losses. Acid and alkali. Vinegar and sugar. Depression and euphoria.”

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“What are we? We are a combination of sand and gunpowder, cosmic energy and sawdust. We are black holes and novae, children’s laughter, and tears of time.”

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