cries in a storm
today, even my teeth too / know the texture of a bloodstream / like flowers hibernating the sky / our stomachs sing like bomb blasts / yet, the story / that flickers the lamp / of our faces is the monster / rearranging a broken mirror of peace / down here / on this soil / is a body dismantled from its soul / the ruined wall in my father's home / which metamorphosed into a battlefield / what should i tell my son / of home? of this congested street / adorned with traces of blood, this half demolished room / decorated with bulletholes / this home, a desert / that doesn't know the smell of rain / behold the sky is a ship / that could take us to another promised land / so let's learn another language / to sing the songs/ of home and exile.
BIO:
Mubarak Said is the 3rd runner-up of the poetry category of the 2022 Bill Ward Prize for Emerging Writers. His works are forthcoming and published in many literary magazines; national and international as Inspired magazine, World Voices Magazine, Icefloe Press, Literary yard, Beatnik Cowboy, Piker press magazine, Teen Literary Journal, ILA magazine, Icreatives review, the yellow house magazine, Pine Cone Review, Synchronized chaos, Susa Africa, madswirl magazine, Applied Worldwide, Opinion Nigeria, Today Post, Daily Trust, Daily Companion and elsewhere.
today, even my teeth too / know the texture of a bloodstream / like flowers hibernating the sky / our stomachs sing like bomb blasts / yet, the story / that flickers the lamp / of our faces is the monster / rearranging a broken mirror of peace / down here / on this soil / is a body dismantled from its soul / the ruined wall in my father's home / which metamorphosed into a battlefield / what should i tell my son / of home? of this congested street / adorned with traces of blood, this half demolished room / decorated with bulletholes / this home, a desert / that doesn't know the smell of rain / behold the sky is a ship / that could take us to another promised land / so let's learn another language / to sing the songs/ of home and exile.
BIO:
Mubarak Said is the 3rd runner-up of the poetry category of the 2022 Bill Ward Prize for Emerging Writers. His works are forthcoming and published in many literary magazines; national and international as Inspired magazine, World Voices Magazine, Icefloe Press, Literary yard, Beatnik Cowboy, Piker press magazine, Teen Literary Journal, ILA magazine, Icreatives review, the yellow house magazine, Pine Cone Review, Synchronized chaos, Susa Africa, madswirl magazine, Applied Worldwide, Opinion Nigeria, Today Post, Daily Trust, Daily Companion and elsewhere.
