Poet Zaynab Akbar

Zaynab Akbar

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Zaynab Akbar Skin 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
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  • 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 Skin 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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Give me the scorn of the stars and a peak defiant;
Wail of the pines and a wind with the shout of a giant;
Night and a trail unknown and a heart reliant.

Give me to live and love in the old, bold fashion;
A soldier's billet at night and a soldier's ration;
A heart that leaps to the fight with a soldier's passion.

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