Verse – NDUKO O'MATIGERE

In Your Eyes

In your eyes I have seen the universe Its dazzling brightness and sombre gaze Its good and its bad All woven in one A tidy messy roll Deep in your eyes I’ve seen the universe Its threesome of black, white and grey And soothing music and drunken growls And caressing whispers and stinging rage AllContinue reading “In Your Eyes”

Whispers in Verse 1

ABSCESS IN STATE – by Nduko o’Matigere My state’s lower abdomen aches Paining in gnawing unending pangs Each movement a spell in acute pain Like a branding rod: red hot; frightening Pressed coldly atop sections of the country’s buttocks The sores and pain and itching mingle My motherland’s lower abdomen is swollen A congealed collectionContinue reading “Whispers in Verse 1”