Tag: warsan shire

• Conversations About Home (at a deportation centre) – Warsan Shire and Ugly

  

  Poem: “Conversations About Home (at a deportation centre)” Poet: Warsan Shire Well, I think home spat me out, the blackouts and curfews like tongue against loose tooth. God, do you know how difficult it is, to talk about the day your own city dragged you by the hair, past the old prison, past the school…

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  10 Jul 2014

  Art, Awareness, Poem A Day, Poetry, Story, Travel

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• “Inheritance” – Warsan Shire

  

  Where did you get those big eyes? My mother. And where did you get those lips? My mother. And the loneliness? My mother. And that broken heart? My mother. And the absence, where did you get that? My father. “Inheritance” Warsan Shire (via prideinthepanther)  

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  1 Mar 2014

  Poetry, Story

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