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@Blackween · 2 years ago

There is something about someone making an effort to gift you with something then you finding out hours later because life. Well, I found out earlier today that I won 100 POB thanks to a soul just loo...

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@Blackween · 2 years ago

Crooked Smile

Dear Diary, May is unfolding in a foggy morning outside. Laundry is smiling at me from one corner of my bedroom and I am being held hostage by my warm beddings. The smile on my face is rare nowadays...

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@Blackween · 2 years ago

Of Bittersweet Rants

Dear Diary, I have peeked outside my bedroom window to ask May's morning fog for a break but my freezing feet tell me it might take a minute. The mind is scattered in small uncooperative groups and I...

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@Blackween · 2 years ago

Owning Dark Thoughts

Dusk gets here and the night folds the day into nothingness and before the crickets share their opinions, the devil has already claimed a dormant piece of my agonising soul and reinstated dark t...

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@Blackween · 2 years ago

Reminiscent Midnight Love

This freewrite can be whatever the reader in you sees fit. I have been denied access to my poetic side by so many excuses so when this started flowing, I was whisked away to a place a part of me calls...

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@Blackween · 2 years ago

Breath Woman!

Dear Diary, The weight of my unborn words is currently suffocating my constant escapism from writing. This ink on your screen has requested to be the balm for my open wounds in an attempt to mitigate...

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@Blackween · 2 years ago

Mother's Day Blues

I typed this two days ago and it has been sitting in my drafts as I tried to bring myself into sharing it. Flashback! I am a thirteen year old skinny looking tomboy. Mischievous and but also excelin...

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@Blackween · 2 years ago

Checking On Myself

Dear Diary, The strings that play my soul when negative vibes are in control are sitting in a lonely corner. Today, peace is sitting with me. We have been engaging in these short interactions but I k...

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@Blackween · 2 years ago

Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful

Dear Diary, Silence has fallen on my pens for two weeks. My ink has been drying up or regrouping itself from the delicate corners of my oftenly bleeding heart. I have seen all sorts of dawns that tr...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Of Long Nights

The night seeps through the cracks of my mother's hut and the tin lamp light dances with the cold breeze as my fear peers into the blackened yard to find the monsters stuck harmoniously in my he...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

The Recent Rite of Passage #TheAftermath

This post stems from the disorientation I have undergone for ten days after the recent rite of passage for my youngest. After half heartedly taking my fourteen year old son through an old practice...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Staying Grounded

Dear Diary, The sun is slowly dissolving the morning cold and the day looks like it will be warmer than yesterday. A dark cloud has been residing here temporarily and my mind is scattered. This piece...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Rain's Magic

Listen in, to the hum Of the soft winds Sweeping across barren land Carrying rain Like a secret that belongs To the mountain tops. The fire crackles softly As her embers Choose to raise to mee...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Reoccurring Daydream

Usually when the sun goes down And darkness can be seen blanketing The earth and her inhabitants I sit by my bedroom window Watching the silver shine conquer the yonder As the starry sparkle...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Wholesomeness Amidst Pain

Dear Diary, The skies are tearing softly to in an attempt to cleanse my side of the world. There is quiet here. And that says a lot. It is never quite here. The present brood are sleeping away their...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Rite of Passage For My Youngest

I am holding this brochure from a locally well-known faith based organisation asking me to give them $100 and my fourteen year old son accompanied with a few essentials for two weeks and they are prom...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Cold Daydreams & Warm Nightmares

If, before the morning fog lifted We found each other In each other's arms, the sun would Bear witness to the intensity Your unfiltered love reawakened Here; this consuming fire that keeps...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Poetry Has Accepted Me Back :D

For months now, I haven't been able to write poetry. These two pieces though imperfect and probably not properly edited are my guide back to my world. Please take these two as they are... :) The Fo...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

UnTitLeD RanTs

Dear Diary, It is past 11 am. The brood is snoring away in the next room thanks to sleeping at 3 in the morning. As usual. The environment is wide awake after a night of restricted movements. Yes. M...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

In Here

Dear Diary, April is here. Or it will be in a few hours. The last three months have been engulfed by an emotional fog that won't be bothered to fade away as expected. Life or fate has dragged me thr...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Speaking in Tongues

Dear Diary, The sun has been showing off and the dust is making everything wear her clingy earthy coat. From the books sitting at the corner of this room to the long eyelashes roaming out there. The...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

The Body's Secrets

Dear Diary, The night embraces the moonless dim in a quite way. I should be sleeping but I am fighting to suspend my ego and let my writer find her light. My fingers are playing pens as the soul tr...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Monday's Dark Sermon

Dear Diary, I am trying to come up with a way to break the ice. Trying to let myself slither into a better place to share what I will. It is been days I know but healing for me is not smooth. I can...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Hello March

Dear Diary, My silenced writer lies somewhere in my essence trying to find herself. T has been digging deep into my emotional triggers and she says that I need to embrace change. Be quick to adjusti...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Violent ReBirth

Dear Diary, There hasn't been a day that I haven't tried doing this. The draft section harbours my truth and I am no longer allowed to dwell on the why sharing is being so difficult. Or writing. The...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Dear African Child

Sing for the dead The warriors who came before us And traded their lives So you and I can know freedom. Blow your horns for the women The unsung mothers Whose wombs bore those spear throwers...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Who to Blame

Take a sweeping glance at it all Cast your eyes where the edges fall And shame comes to life Just to remind you his silence allows you To live. To exist. And tell me who to blame. The pas...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

The Return of the Lost Scribe

Dear Diary, The writing spirit has rested on my right arm and my index finger is currently enjoying the small moves on my gadget's keyboard birthing these sentences. That should say something consid...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

ReEmerging from the Shadows

Dear Diary, Me, myself and I plus my now fully awakened demons are here to make it known that we still exist. We can't say living as that is for happy people. Whole ones. We ain't that. And we have a...

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@Blackween · 3 years ago

Surviving the Dark

The moon is caressing the oceanic blue night sky. The crickets are in harmony with the dying buzz of this day. Melodies of the night have come alive As the monsters hiding under this bed. Old...

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