Bittersweet Poetry : Poems of the week by

As we continue to promote Poetry in Zambia ; here are this weeks poems ,enjoy.

BITTERSWEET-THE PARADOX by BitterSweet

Tears fall from their eyes

It all came by surprise

Blackness paints their skies

Daily promises turn to lies

Diseases surround like dirty flies

But what about the other, for that’s just one side…

Ringing joy and laughter

New life what bliss after

Skies are painted blue

All In perfect hue.

It’s not all about you.It’s the glistening as the sun’s rays touch the dew…

There’s darkness there’s light

There’s morning there’s Night

There’s chilling just sitting there’s struggling and fight.

There’s weakness there’s might

There’s meekness there’s plight

There’s worrying just thinking there’s working the right.

There’s chance and there’s fate

There’s love and there’s hate

These two words come together to make a nice debate.

There’s clean and there’s dirt

There’s Him and the flirt

These two are but one feather that continues to mutate.

There’s ying there’s yung

There’s old there’s young

There’s blue there’s fun

The moon and the sun.

There’s black there’s white

There’s wrong there right

There’s flat there’s steep

There’s Bitter and there’s Sweet.

CAN ANYTHING… by Marcialleti Ziko

can anything be as loud as the silence of the night?

as sharp as the rays from the evening candlelight…

can anything be as colorful as the picture that is black and white?

as successful as the novelist who cannot even write…

can anything be as simple as the beauty of duty?

as innocent as the criminal who has just been proven guilty…

can anything be as peaceful as a lonesome turtle-dove?

as exciting as the thought of how to hate the man you love…

can anything be as recent as the events of tomorrow?

as disturbing as the melody of a jolly Christmas carol…

can anything be as strong as a chains weakest link?

as brilliant as the ideas from dead men who are paid to think…

can anything be as honest as the pain behind my laughter?

as comforting as a horror which begins with a happily-ever-after…

can anything be as gentle as a buffalo full of rage?

as eloquent as a person reading a half torn page…

can anything be anything if anything really is?

can anything be something if unlocked without its keys…

MAN DOWN by Luka Mwango

Man down!!!!

On life’s battleground my soul fought/

Like David but without the slingshot/

But it mattered not/

For Goliath came dressed as Judas/

The deathblow came from among us/

Two wounds, Physical and Emotional/

The one without blood left me critical/

Stabbed by the mockery of friends/

Shot by the gunshots of her kisses/

And to think I made her my Mrs. /

For what is the remedy for heartache?

For what is the antidote of Betrayal?

Man down!!!

“Get up,” I heard the Lord say/

My mouth a smorgasbord of naysay/

“Lord you have forsaken me,”/

But if it were so would I still breathe?

Would I still walk?

Would I still talk?

The holocaust came and went/

And although my body was spent/

I did not faint/

I got up resolutely/

And checked into the Holy Spirit Hospice/

Man Down!!!

Yes, but I will be back/

Back with Love/

Back from Love/

Back to Love/

For Love Separates the Living from the Dead!!!!!

By Kapa187