About Magic

[1 min read]

Once upon a time,
There was us.
In the glistening yellow,
In the drowing grey.

There was us.
At the table of the biggest brunches,
And the slowest lunches.

THE NIGHT GRANDMA DIED

[3 min read]

Mother became an orphan that night.
The night was warm, and I was in my room relaxing from the day's work when I heard shouting from the room grandma stayed in. I sprinted to her room, trying as hard as I could to imagine positive things, pushing the negatives out of my mind...
...we need to get her to the hospital
     ...tires screeching  
          ...I'm sorry but I can't feel a pulse
                ...she can't be dead
                          ...

300 WRITING COMPETITION - SECOND EDITION

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DESOLATION
by Zainab Oluwakemi Oyeleye

A broken mind,
A shattered heart,
And a cursed life.
So was the life of Silver.

Heroes

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I never knew my father,
But I had heard from my mother,
That he was the best hero there ever was,
With his smile he ended wars.

Dealing with Failure

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I was five when it happened,
It was at my aunty's wedding - the one that never smiled.

The usher had passed it to me without a second glance,
A hurried look on her face, like she had other things to attend to.

I didn't mind because I had gotten it.
It was a souvenir, a fan shaped like a hand.

Home

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Bright and early that Sunday morning,

She walked to the road wearing little to nothing,