Benyeakeh

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Benyeakeh
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poetry is the way of expressing myself

  September 2022     1 year ago

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Maybe boys don't have tears

had heard stories enough from grandfather
stories that could light up movie theaters
if i were a director
but never told me bed rocks
beneath waterfalls bleed with sweats
like the boy who couldn't sleep
because the song of hunger is...

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My mother, a nature

The fountain of God's love

Her thighs are the roots of cotton tree
And the ground on which my feet first tasted

Her hands are the gravity that held me
when I thought I could fly without wings
Her fingers still taste like raindrops on...

by Benyeakeh Miapeh

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Night walkers

At the end of years in the dark
somewhere in the beginning of dry season
i saw tree that was once solely on terrace
waving her branches to seasonal winds
& giving its flowers to keep them going
it was just a night in a year
after thousand...

by Benyeakeh Miapeh

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