poetry – Becoming The Muse

Of Déjà vu Book Review

Almost two years ago on this day Rufaro Chengeto Mayowe self-published her debut book of poetry Déjà vu. Déjà vu is a French phrase which translates to already seen. Its…

Of Reset An A-Z Guide To Thrive In Trying Times

16 Oct 202119 Oct 2021

Just to put the cards on the table, I am the kind of reader who reads mostly for the fun of it, and these days I am gravitating towards a…

Of Your Hello…

15 Oct 202115 Oct 2021

If you could see me now,smiling,I never knew,an unexpected call from you,would leave me like this,I was sleeping when my phone rang,I thought I was dreaming, But when you said…

Of Red Squiggly Lines

11 Sep 202111 Sep 2021

Poetry inspired by when you cant spell a word correctly so you end up rewriting the sentence starting a new train of thought

Of The SleepWalker

5 Sep 20215 Sep 2021

Awake but never really aware,Dreaming by nightDaydreaming by daySlept through life,Slept through loveslept through pain,slept through rain,Slept through memories,slept through nightmaresThe universe unfolded,Before your eyes unfocused,And yet you still slept,the…

Of A Random List Of Musings

Random list from my drafts don’t remember what I was responding to, kinda reads like a poem…. Are you a writer or not?If you have to ask yourself this question,…

Of Indigo Saint Freestyle

31 Aug 202131 Aug 2021

When I popped by my Twitter and saw Indigo Saint was trending I felt a mild apprehension wondering why… Turns out he dropped a freestyle over Souls Of Mischief's classic…

Defining Moments

Of Spelling Soldier

8 Aug 20219 Aug 2021

My uncle was a war veteran,In another life and another time he was a decorated hero, I used to be super proud and deathly afraid of him, In his starched…

Of Softly In The Night

She does not come At dawn's appointed time, When skies are pale And stars begin to fade. When drops of dew Wake every sleeping flower, And songbirds tribute To the…

Of The Patchwork Girl And The Clockwork Boy

19 Jun 202119 Jun 2021

She was a girl,A patchwork girl,Wrapped in a quilt of rainbows,Stitched together by moonlight and shadows. Each patch had a name,Sunshine and rain,Laughter and pain,Loss and gainAnd everything that kept…

Of The New Moon

There's a new moon out tonightand it's the darkest of the yearThe world crawls into bedas it wait for the sun to appearThere's a new moon out tonightand it's the…

Of Being A Creative: The Soul beneath

8 Jun 20218 Jun 2021

It's a commonly held notion that the inspiration for creativity comes from tortured souls who create from a dark place of pain, sadness, loss,... but inspiration comes even from happy…