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How to Break a Curse by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné | Poems Rethabile Likes

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How to Break a Curse by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné | Poems Rethabile Likes How to Break a Curse by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné Lemon balm is for forgiveness. Pull up from the root, steep in boiling water. Add locusts' wings, salt, the dried bones of hummingbirds. Drink when you feel ready. Drink even if you do not. Pepper seeds are for courage. Sprinkle them on your tongue. Sprinkle in the doorway and along the windowsill. Mix pepper and water to a thick paste. Spackle the cracks in the concrete, anoint the part in your hair. You need as much courage as you can get. Water is for heal...
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God Pours Light by Hafiz | Poems Rethabile Likes

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God Pours Light by Hafiz | Poems Rethabile Likes God Pours Light by Hafiz God pours light into every cup, quenching darkness. The proudly pious stuff their cups with parchment and critique the taste of ink while God pours light and the trees lift their limbs without worry of redemption, every blossom a chalice. Hafiz, seduce those withered souls with words that wet their parched lips as light pours like rain into every empty cup set adrift on the Infinite Ocean. Poet: @Hafiz ...
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behind closed curtains by Siza Nkosi | Poems Rethabile Likes

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behind closed curtains by Siza Nkosi | Poems Rethabile Likes behind closed curtains by Siza Nkosi there is a room in our house that's draped in red curtains behind them is a box covered in long silence we never let the sun in when night falls we go inside the room holding white candles open the curtains for moonlight hold the box very close to our hearts and remember Poet: @PoetryPotion Online: @Botsotso Book(s): @AfricanBooksCollective ...
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