U grabbed my words
the moment they left my lips,
made me pair of wings
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Tweet Poems - #FallingInLove Pt 1
The blood and the bruises are the war wounds
from engaging in battle with Creativity.
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Tweet Poems - #Flirting
He took my temperature by #Flirting w th creativity of a plank.
Wud have preferd if he'd left the tree in 1 piece,
left the leaves 2 rustle
Zena Edwards© 2012
Wud have preferd if he'd left the tree in 1 piece,
left the leaves 2 rustle
Zena Edwards© 2012
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Tweet Poems - #NotOfLikeMinds
Ur words r either lead or flotsam: dense sunken cynicism
or forgettable debris of plagarised helium
My #TimeIsShort mafren
Zena Edwards© 2012
Zena Edwards© 2012
Monday, 20 February 2012
Tweet poems - #Tattoos
She sed u not only commit this image 2 ur skin,
u document ur ability 2 make choices made from voices within.
B sure 2 listen well
Zena Edwards© 2012
u document ur ability 2 make choices made from voices within.
B sure 2 listen well
Zena Edwards© 2012
Tweet Poems - #Untitled
Love: if its put where its appreciated
u'll c a return
If not, it'll be a breeze
smellin of bread bakin
perplexin those that missed the offerin
Zena Edwards© 2012
u'll c a return
If not, it'll be a breeze
smellin of bread bakin
perplexin those that missed the offerin
Zena Edwards© 2012
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Estar - The Star of Creativity Pts 1, 2 & 3
I was commissioned to write a piece in 3 parts about creativity and its holistic value in the community for the Arts and cultural building Podium Mozeik in the Netherlands for their 5th birthday. http://www.podiummozaiek.nl/
Haytham Safia - U’d
Peter Prommel - Percussion
Haytham Safia - U’d
Peter Prommel - Percussion
Thursday, 9 February 2012
"What the guide told me", a poem - Haiti revisited
"She is still here," said the guide,
points to the girl a short distance away.
The naive nuance of her laugh
travels on the scent of the insouciant breeze
A friend was braiding her hair. Then
she stops. Playfulness halted by a rigid chill .
The skinny friends big eyes blink slow,
enough breath space for incredible memory to be made real
then she hugs her shoulders
wipes her face. They do not see
me watching.
There are no locks.
There was no knock,
just a hiss
as the venom slid under
her mouth mashed
by hot palm
her tongue
in her belly now
"No!"exploding -
shards - pinned
under fathoms of poison
passing into her
stripping innocence from her bones.
A malignancy lingers,
a ringing residue, a hum that numbs the passing of that night.
It died a mournful death in a culture which celebrates
greetings from ancestors, who wait with a blanket
and sweet water in clay bowls.
A sad crossing from girlhood to womanhood,
a yard before her third menstruation,
a story away from joyous excitement
of her full blossoming.
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"She is in the camp still. She has no-one, but she is brave."
The teeth went deep,
the injection was clinical-
the venom clings.
The buff of a waterfall from free flowing virtuous rivers
over vertiginous ridges
won't scourer her clean,
but the children will still play and women reason
rubbing suds and laundry on the rocks.
Her smile has returned - the soft measured plosives
of a friends careful words burst her absorption.
The skinny girl pecks her forehead,
returns attention to her hair.
And so it goes, till when she's ready
to release: grey stillness, intermittent flares of light - blaze.
She fights back the scent of semen - a chemical burn
on her virginity - the stain that spoiled a vista
of fresh vestal verdancy, now a wizened rainforest
on the broken belt of the coast seen from the satellite
of intermittent disembodiment
"It could be anyone.
The epidemic is spreading,
no one is safe these days."
"What is the antidote?" I say out loud.
"No one knows
yet. But the women have strong spines here."
written By Zena Edwards©
Written in response to the shocking reports of the rape epidemic in the settlements camps post the January 12th, 2012 Haiti earthquake.
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