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Just ManoeOct 12, 2026
Hearty Confessions

On that cliff Where blood washes over A soldier's thoughts Where dark clouds are pregnant with bullets All thunder, bombs that went off And lightning the speech...

Just ManoeSep 22, 2026
On a new year afternoon

White butterflies Against blue skies White clouds Against a turquoise dome Rainbows and halos Gifts from an old sun Chuckles of dry leaves Tickled by a gentle b...

Just ManoeSep 22, 2026
The Drug and I

we were not bold like this, the drug and I, fact, the evasion of eye to eye, was intense, inept and the intent was to kill the light, or else we couldn't exchan...

Just ManoeSep 17, 2026
A Stroll Through Emptiness

We are born exiles into this world.Lonely exiles of oblivion into a cold ruthless world forced to give our existence a purpose- ever since man cracked open the...

Just ManoeSep 22, 2026
The Dead Woman's Page

Nestled in the cold arms of the dead night. My thoughts hovering over mountains, cold deserts and frozen seas. My thoughts riding hungry crows and Vultures droo...

Just ManoeSep 20, 2026
The Lady In the Matatu

There's that face of a lady, in a matatu that your mind drifts to, to escape the bedlam and clatter of traffic. It's an island of emeralds, marbles, hazels, ros...

Just ManoeSep 19, 2026
Hope

There's that ember among dying embers holding on to dreams of becoming a bonfire. Pushed on by visions of diesel rains. Unfazed by the distant din of reality or...

Just ManoeSep 17, 2026
Making love to Persiphone

On a winter's dusk a shy sun seated on Persiphone's glorious ass hurled its golden rays at my frozen face Death's wife walked down a horizon's frozen slopes Dra...

Just ManoeSep 17, 2026
The Only Salvation is You

There is something strange about pain. The way it makes us alive to the joys of life. The way memories of it add vitality to happiness and strengthen our resolv...

Just ManoeSep 17, 2026
Ludo

Dear Diary Once I was 10 years old and I used to sing about making a little heaven down here. Then it was easy. Then it was just a song. Then heaven was magic;...

atsfriendlyresumeSep 14, 2026
It is bad today

Dear diary. Today went well. I met someone today. She was nice to me. Thats all.

Just ManoeSep 13, 2026
If you May

Some of these moments, Go through them without causing a fuss, Then you're strong and stable and deserve a puff... Of happiness to enjoy life and such a stuff,...

Manasses NdongaSep 14, 2026
Dew

It hops onto leaves From the cold airs of the dark Like a thief it Springs to life In the dead of the night Waiting upon dawn, To kiss the sweet beams Of the ri...

Just ManoeSep 13, 2026
The Standard

Today I have to sit down - pen on paper, With respect to the efforts that wade you through life's hot pepper Motive neither to rebuke nor praise, Rather to remi...

Just ManoeAug 31, 2026
Part 2

as it starts from a simple pimple, its nothing and as is look at it i smile with a dimple but the look in mama's face tells a tale not that simple the shake in...

Just ManoeAug 26, 2026
son, you will cry

as it starts from a simple pimple, its nothing and as is look at it i smile with a dimple but the look in mama's face tells a tale not that simple the shake in...