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Celebration of Blacko Females Voices – Still I Rise

You are invited to take part in a Women’s Poetry competition.

The theme is ‘Celebration of Black Female Voices – Still I Rise’.

Poems should be 30 lines or less (with a title and author’s contact details at the bottom).

This competition opens 26th August 2022

The closing date for submissions* is Saturday 8 October 2022

Competition winners will be invited to read their poems at an event on Saturday 29th October 2022, 1pm – 3pm at The African Caribbean Centre, Maidstone Road, LE2 0UA.

*Submissions should be emailed to:

editor.sanroopublishing@gmail.com or africancaribbeancentre@leicester.gov.uk

or in you in the area you can hand your submission in at the African Caribbean Centre.

Silence!

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Feeling Locked in a cage trying to reach for the sky,

Trying to break the Silence that killed my soul every time,

Ashamed and bruised.

How can I tell my story?

Without me being accused?


It wasn’t my fault.

That he thought I could be used.

As a victim for him to abuse,

While he felt amused.

Silence burdened my soul heavy,

Every time scared of being accused,

While my abuse kept him amused.


Finally, the silence broke,

Each bar of the cage came crashing down

As the story of my abuse started to unfold.

” I’m not the accused – he is,

The bars may build up from time to time

But at least this bird has tried to fly

To reach that blue sky.


By Roxy Rafi