#african poetry

[iambrillyant]

“your gut instinct is not a liar, those initial feelings exist for a reason, sit on them if you need to, process whether your feelings are valid or just projections, but never dismiss your intuition when the signs are staring you in the face and your nervous system is agreeing.”

— iambrillyant

#poetry #wordsnquotes #poem #wnq quote #wnq writers #micro poetry #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #love #iambrillyant #billy chapata #african poet #african poetry #self worth #self love #blkcreatives #growth #writer #writers on tumblr #spilled prose #spilled soul #spilled poetry #spilled words #short prose #prose writing #poetic prose #prose poetry #prose poem #prose #bookstagram

[metamorphesque]

My will is a whisper, your moan a method I, your sin, Committed between two holy mountains And a valley of carnal angels

Niyi Osundare, Words Catch Fire

#bending the bow #niyi osundare #poems #poetry #literature #quotes #translated literature #african literature #african poetry

[louiseacademia]

05/24/2023

studying african poetry 💗

#dark academia #light academia #studyblr #louiseacademia #mine #academia #academia barbie #kawaii academia #langblr #pastel academia #pretty academia #pink academia #hotgirlsarenerds #🐄 #african poetry

[manwalksintobar]

If only... / Anonymous

If only The heart had a lid I would have opened it and shown you my grief, and you would have known if I am the one for you.

(translated from the Swahili by Jan Knappert)

#poetry #Anonymous #Swahili poetry #South African poetry #Jan Knappert #African poetry #micropoetry #micropoem #love poetry #love #grief #unrequited love

[lionofchaeronea]

"I Anoint My Flesh (Tenth Day of Fast)" -- Wole Soyinka (b. 1934)

I anoint my flesh Thought is hallowed in the lean Oil of solitude I call you forth, all, upon Terraces of light. Let the dark Withdraw I anoint my voice And let it sound hereafter Or dissolve upon its lonely passage In your void. Voices new Shall rouse the echoes when Evil shall again arise I anoint my heart Within its flame I lay Spent ashes of your hate -- Let evil die.

#personal #poem #poetry #Wole Soyinka #African literature #African poetry #Nigerian literature #Nigerian poetry #20th century literature #20th century poetry #inspirational

[beerlula-00]

Cadraddii ammaan lehe

Carshigii jamaalkaan

U caleemo saaraye

I praise her.

I crown her with garlands.

- Maxamad Xaashi Dhamac ‘Gaariye’

#-Maxamad Xaashi Dhamac ‘Gaariye’ #gaariye #abwaan gaariye #somalia #somali #somali literature #somali poetry #somali art #somali culture #somali history #suugaanta #african poetry #poetry #african art #literature

[maniialf]

#poetry #quotes #thoughts #love #literature #prose #aesthetic #wnq writers #wnq poetry #spilled thoughts #poetic prose #books and literature #spilled poem #spilled writing #african poetry #blkcreatives #writers of tumblr #blogger #blackgirlswhoblog

[bones-ivy-breath]

Music is playing the chessboard with no table and still it kills. The boys on the wall of the girls’ school have been here before. As if I’m smoke toying with a knife, as if I’m a finger not sewing a fleeting song.

They always kill me by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi

#poetry #they always kill me #Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi #literature #aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #arabic poetry #sudanese poetry #arabic literature #african literature #african poetry #sudanese literature #death #dark things

[aslisjournal]

“If I could write a letter to my country I would say I love you as you are, Beyond the lines they've drawn, and the ruins on your ground I would say, I'm sorry for the blood thats been shed For the evil widespread Give me time and I'm yours”

— Asli Hersi

#poetry #black poets on tumblr #poem #poems #daily poetry #spilled ink #black poets society #african poetry #africa #pan Africa #pan africanism #Somalia #Somali #qabil #Nigeria #Eritrea #Togo #benin #Senegal #Burkina faso #Syria #Palestine #Iraq #Ghana #Sudan #South Sudan #south africa #free verse

[thistledownandmoss]

I am starting a junk journal about African and African American poetry and chants.

#African #African American #Junk journal #African poetry #African American poetry #African chants and songs #Cultural

[blacknyctophilic]

#african poetry #poetry #dark academia #romantic #romantic academia #soft academia #african academia #black writblr #writerscommunity

[iambrillyant]

“honor the friendships that allow you to pick up from where you last left off, regardless of how long it’s been since you connected. the friendships that survive hiatuses, silences and space. those are the connections that never die.”

— iambrillyant

#poetry #wordsnquotes #poem #wnq quote #wnq writers #micro poetry #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #love #iambrillyant #billy chapata #african poetry #african poet #spilled prose #spillied ink #friendships #connections #relationship #hiatus #unconditional love #self worth #blkcreatives #growth #writers on tumblr #writer #short prose #prose writing #poetic prose #prose poetry #prose

[metamorphesque]

— Niyi Osundare, You Are

#niyi osundare #you are #poetry #poems #quotes #literature #translated literature #african poetry #african literature

[fruitfulodyssey]

Woe is the man

Who plants seed

And does not know

What he is growing

- FruitfulOdyssey (Book: Journey of Discernment)

#poem #poetry #poet #spilled ink #thoughts #words #spilled thoughts #new poets society #spilled words #fruitfulodyssey #christian poetry #christian poems #african poetry #african poet #black man #black poetry #black poet #vision #choice #garden #seed #planting #poetsandwriters #poetsandartists #poetsandauthors #poems daily #daily poem #original writing #original poem

[nakkiesays-blog]

when I dance

he listens

to my waist beads

when I dance

he says it’s exhilarating,

he’s salivating

#poem #african poetry #dance

[lionofchaeronea]

New favorite poet just added to my growing list: Tchicaya U Tam'si (1931-1988), a Francophone author born in the Republic of Congo but resident for most of his life in Paris. Good Lord, what a genius he was.

#personal #current reading #African literature #African poetry #Tchicaya U Tam'si