Month: June 2020
The Whistle Is Our New Alarm
I found out I had not been sharing, I had only been shelling. This prompted me to share on my Facebook page for the period, Shobb’s Diary (@shobbsdiaryofficial) The whistle is our new alarm. We’ve learnt to hide from straying nails propelled […]
Check Your Heart
Once more the cursor is re- directed at my color like I’m a mistake of nature. Once more my kinds face extinction from beings –just like us, only not our color. Once more I’m reminded: “I’m black”; the one erased For white […]
Children’s Day
May 27th looks to be the day the children get attention, other days? They crave it. I’ve been sick with this cycle and the emptiness it brings along, more like the attention we cast to tweets that trend for a while and […]
LENS
Hey! How’s your day coming? How’d your day go? How. . .so I thought to drop this apostrophe. Hope you love it! Times I be struck with myopia, but you were always there; a correcting lens. With you the world looks beautiful; […]
Writing A Happy Poem
This past week, I recall telling a friend that he could write a happy poem when sad, he simply had to lie to his emotion, make the smile come to his face as he writes the way it should be or look, […]
The Child Inside
Truly, when we speak of children, we point fingers; we tend to fill in on those spaces with the ones much younger than us in age and stature – say below 15, but we’re all children of God, you know. We neglect […]
Wooing Mum
Recently, I’ve been trying my hands on prose and guess what. . .it feels rosy, but you might have another opinion. This was one of the pieces I wrote for a writing challenge on Facebook, others to come up soon. Read, and […]
I remember this guy here, never got his name, I told him to strike a pose and here’s what I can look back on. I still smile when I do🙂. In order to illustrate this poem, I didn’t edit. Enjoy! Farts […]