Poet Zaynab Akbar

Zaynab Akbar

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Zaynab Akbar Black Poems

  • 1.
    If home was a smell
    It would smell like aftershave and peanut butter and jam
    It would smell like
    Spices, sweet and salty; taste buds ringing
    ...
  • 2.
    My heart was a graveyard before you came
    Your arrival was violently gentle
    So aggressively you made my barren land your own;
    You took my dead trees and breathed life into them as you did me
    ...
Total 2 Black Poems by Zaynab Akbar

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Yellow 2 Skin 2 Smell 2 Black 2 Gold 1 Body 1 Milk 1 Strong 1 Absolutely 1 Bone 1

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Sonnet Xvi. To Kosciusko
 by John Keats

Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres -- an everlasting tone.
And now it tells me, that in worlds unknown,
The names of heroes, burst from clouds concealing,
And changed to harmonies, for ever stealing
Through cloudless blue, and round each silver throne.
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