Poetry Is What I Do When I Am Slippery
written by: Roseline Mgbodichinma
@RMgbodichinma
Poetry is what I do
When I want to immortalise the
Memories of loss latched onto my skin
Poetry is what I do to live
What I do for a living
What I do to shame death
What I do to pretend nothing is dying
What I do to hold my tears to ransom
What I do when everything is meaningless
What I do to patch my crumbling walls
Poetry is what I do when I am slippery
What I do when my tongue is heavy with truth
What I do to let raging emotions lie
What I do to appease my guts
What I do to drag everything that feels distant
Into the full grasp of my destiny
Roseline Mgbodichinma is a Nigerian poet, writer, and blogger. In 2018, she won the audience's favourite award powered by Union Bank and Okadabooks for her short story, Silence That Spoke. Her poem, The Giant, was published in the Poets in Nigeria (PIN) 2019 Anthology, and We Were Superheroes (another poem) was selected by Theresa Lola, the young people’s laureate for London to be featured in the “Say your peace campaign.”
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- Poetry Is What I Do When I Am Slippery - January 20, 2021
