sad poetry
The cathartic nature of poetry makes it one of the best outlets to channel feelings of sadness, emotional turmoil, grief and despair.
Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah Christmas is not a happy time for turkeys, as the British Jamaican Benjamin Zephaniah - one of our finest dub poets and children's authors - demonstrates here with remarkable wit and aplomb. This poem, as well as the book of the same name, achieved enormous success after being published in 1994. Zephaniah was a local legend at the age of 15, noted for his stirring, socially conscious poetry, and was born in the Birmingham district of Handsworth, which he dubbed "the Jamaican capital of Europe". This is an excellent example of Zephaniah taking on a serious problem and introducing it to young people in a way that is both amusing and fun.
By Genius Sly2 years ago in Poets
The Weight of Nothing, Something
Darkness, impenetrable intangible, casts its unrelenting shadow over me. Reprieve and relief have become obscure ideals, experiential relics of a past the memory of which slowly dissipates into nothing. People tend to misunderstand nothing. In its own cruel way, nothing is something. When it's your only something, you cling to it as I cling to it. I've long forgotten what it felt like to have something—anything worthy of pride and a sense of achievement. “True hope... is swift." "True hope is swift... and flies with swallow's wings. Kings it makes gods and meaner creatures kings." What is hope?
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets
