Malika co-founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen in 2001 to create a nourishing and
encouraging community of writers dedicated to the development of their writing
craft. Once we had created the work Malika would encourage us to share what we had written.
Philip Martinez
The Reading Corner
Here are some more poems for you to read from the colletive
- Thinking it through
- Learning to eat English
- Communion
- Come Home
- Pant Y Plant
- Finding Australia
- Elizabeth Estate (Home)
- Roadkill
- Liberation Song
- F-Word
- The Rider
- full moon at the hot pot
- The Crossing
- Open Wound
- I began to drown
- Haiku for Breaking Up
- The Nightingale
- With dawn comes
- Belisha beacon
- Agenda
- perimeter blues
- I Am
- Exils
- Ugandan Golgotha – Part 2
- Woke Like Socrates
- U Fahder’s People
- The Witness
- Quit
- Human Animal
- Warriors
- When Racism Affecting Black Girls is Ignored
- Drowning
- I Come From
- A leopard parses his concern
- A Portable Paradise
- Broken
- The Roadkill
- Words for Sorrow
- The King With Two Shoes in His Name
- Minotaur tries to talk
- 7up
- Mussels at low tide
- The Charm of Friday Night
- Supernatural
- Allison Lindner
- Anna Dolezal
- Anne Enith Cooper
- Aoife Mannix
- Bernadette Reed
- Cath Drake
- Christina Fonthes
- Courtney Conrad
- Cyril Husbands
- Daniel Kramb
- Denise Saul
- Dorothea Smartt
- Fahad Al-Amoudi
- Fikayo Balogun
- Gemma Weekes
- Hannah Gordon
- Harry Man
- Heather Taylor
- Jamila Barrett
- Jocelyn Page
- Khairani Barokka
- Mary Renouf
- Melanie Mauthner
- Nick Makoha
- Orishanti
- P.L.J. McIntosh
- Patricia Foster McKenley
- Peter Kahn
- Sarah Reilly
- Sundra Lawrence
- Tara Betts
- Charlotte Ansell
- Dean Atta
- Rishi Dastidar
- Roger Robinson
- Michelle Penn
- Soul Patel
- Katie Griffiths
- Peter Raynard
- Mehmet Izbudak
- Yomi Sode
- Joolz Sparkes
- Maisie Lawrence
- Ugochi Nwaogwugwu
Thinking it through
By Alisson Linder
Chaotic minds lead to
Erratic surroundings lead to
Knowing where everything is leads to
Unique organisation leads to
A creative spirit leads to
Many miraculous inventions lead to
Things we cannot imagine being without lead to
Obsessions we need to get rid of lead to
A short lived routine leads to
Right where we started leads to
Imagining where we want to go leads to
Thinking how we’re gonna get there leads to
A brainstorm leads to
Infinite solutions lead to
Trying to decide which decision to follow leads to
Indecision led by the thought processes of a chaotic min
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