#kwame opoku-duku

[wordsthatkeepmyfeetdry]

& LORD KNOWS by Kwame Opoku-Duku

[revmeg]

And lord knows what we lose once we believe we are clean, how purity breeds atrocity like terriers in heat...

from "Lord Knows" by Kwame Opoku-Duku, quoted in The Third Renunciation: Poems by Matthew E. Henry, p. 35

[nsantand]

Kwame Opoku-Duku – Eles irão lhe perguntar onde dói mais

"Eles irão lhe perguntar onde dói mais", um poema de Kwame Opoku-Duku

Bendita seja a amarguraem sua essência, aquela luz calmaque fica cada vez mais calma,como o murmúrio abafado que escapade seus lábios enquanto você dorme.Eles irão lhe perguntar, criança,o que você sabe sobre o sofrimento.Eles irão lhe perguntar onde dóimais quando a dor se transforma,como o comprimento de onda da luzno céu noturno, quando os gritosde seus ancestrais ressoam para vocêdo oceano, e…

[arcanespillo]

Lord Knows

BY KWAME OPOKU-DUKU

It gets messy underneath the veil when the strength it takes to be can zap the moisture from your skin, and all you want is to be held to the breast of a beautiful being and never let go while the beautiful people sing, I hope your new soul remains pure! And lord knows what we lose once we believe we are clean, how purity breeds atrocity like terriers in heat, why, like a flock of pigeons circling a rooftop, lord, we know not why we do. And lord knows we’re heavy with the weight of time, and that too many times, we died before we began, that every prayer is a vanity, every god oblivious to our cries. What else now but to speak plainly: Lord, we curse this devilful motherfucker to the ground. Let us march on cities until they crumble, blasting Miles Smiles as loud as the speakers will bear, to tell them how even in that moment, which would feel to them so dark and unrelenting, there could be infinite beauty if they would allow themselves to feel it.

[fatbeanbun]

everything you utter is a prayer. your tears

water the lush earth as an offering to the lord.

sonnet for the day of the lord // Kwame Opoku-Duku

[lifeinpoetry]

i am so scared i want / to die with my eyes open.

Kwame Opoku-Duku, from “iii: dance moves,” The Unbnd Verses

[weltenwellen]

Kwame Opoku-Duku, from "Lord Knows"

[vyvyanwormwood]

“everything you utter is a prayer” — Kwame opoku-duku. . . #poetry #poem #tarot #witch #witchcraft #buddhism #tao #shinto #meditation #tarot #tarotreader #tarotreading #dailytarot #tarotcomnunity #oracle https://www.instagram.com/p/CTIrAF_reOk/?utm_medium=tumblr

[pelsjas]

i am so scared i want / to die with my eyes open.

Kwame Opoku-Duku, from “iii: dance moves,” The Unbnd Verses

[pureflection]

i met Jesus face to face on august 8th.

[lifeinpoetry]

My definition of the holy / changes with each loss.

Kwame Opoku-Duku, from “i: ghosts,” The Unbnd Verses

[bostonpoetryslam]

i asked my heart to beat out of my chest/ for the explosion to be a work of art that moved the world to tears/ but they never even remembered i made that last second shot/

Kwame Opoku-Duku, “the old head verses (ecclesiastes) 26-36,” published in Cosmonauts Avenue

[lifeinpoetry]

& the desire to pass through  life like a shadow becomes greater than the desire to raise your voice in vain

— Kwame Opoku-Duku, from “iv: the old head verses (ecclesiastes) 21-25,” The Unbnd Verses

[lifeinpoetry]

how much / of beauty is really real

Kwame Opoku-Duku, from “iv: the old head verses (ecclesiastes) 21-25,” The Unbnd Verses

[lifeinpoetry]

           the only thing holier than word

is blood     to belong to the river

                       is     to belong to the infinite

is    to call it a god

— Kwame Opoku-Duku, from “The Dept of the Gods – River Bureau,” published in The Shallow Ends

[lifeinpoetry]

they say don't put dreams in poems. a poem is a dream. rules are only fun when you are the punisher.

— Kwame Opoku-Duku, from “Lord Knows,” published in BOAAT