It’s Not Love - Ryna.S.

If you love someone because he/ she is gorgeous…

that’s not love...

It’s Infatuation.

Moroni my princess - Soeuf Elbadawi

Moroni, my princess

with poor feet,

catches a cold and gets drunk on

bad weather days

General! - Dadolin Murak

General!

We didn’t know

The dark affair of 30 September 1965

When you came

We were indoctrinated by your false history:

Cutting genitals

Slashing with razors, gouging out eyes

Joined the communist cavorting at Lubang Buaya9

Dawn of my manhood - Ueantabo Fakaofo

The years of Childhood have ended, 

The constellation Rimwimata’¹ is up in the skies 

Twinkling on the whole island at rest 

Laying in bed tossing and wakeful I waited for dawn 

Untitled - Manal Al-Adawi

We must wake up,

We must burn hatred and turn the page,

Let us hold our hands together and walk towards the awakening.

News Of My Mother - Jean Baptiste Tati-Loutard

I am now very high upon the tree of the seasons;

Far below I see the firm earth of the past.

Pre-Naivasha Days - Emmanuel Monychol

We used to fight flies and heat
In the bullet ridden grass thatched huts,
We lived in the hope of milk and honey.

A Woman - Yeng Chheangly

I saw her 

In a dirty face,

She carried,

Many bricks on her shoulder,

Sonnet XXXIV: Recognition of the world's vanity - Francisco de Aldana

At last, at last, with so much time spent dying,

and with so many turns of life and fate,

so many times to every folly flying

with hopes to grasp it all, always too late,

Jakïp dreams about Manas - Anonymous

"Until Manas reaches the age of twelve,

Until he grows into manhood,

Achieves the stature of a brave man,

And takes a spear in his hand