Poetry & Stories

2026

On Michael Olise’s Instagram Posts

Is This It?

Have You Seen The Marvelous Ruins

simulacra

Hot Take: Capitalism will never be as good as the first five minutes of Gravity Falls

Old Man As An English Teacher

On A Mountain With Someone From Another Nation

There Was An Earthquake In Japan Today

These Days

Playing Musical Chairs

Meditation During Ongoing Conflict

Chances Of Redemption Through The Costco Car Wash

There Is No Ceasefire In The Promised Land

This Poem Was Written By AI

No Love In The Heart Of Man

The Kid’s Table

There Is No War In Ba Sing Se

Before Your Eyes

We Called This “Under the Influence”

No Home to Breathe In

Foreigner

Numbers and Statistics

Fever Dreams

9 to 5

A Whole Lot of Khaki

Revolutionary

On Learning to Ignore Fetal Pigs on TV

Daedalus

Prescription

Decepticon

In Memoriam

God Save The Quee

2025

Alternate Universes

On Misinterpretation

This Side of Paradise

Phantom Lines

Wiseness

Is this graded on a bell curve?

Roach!

Flags

When I Grow Up,

Post-Mortem

So, If Everyone Jumped Off Of A Bridge,

I’m Not A Cat, But

Buttons

What a Happy Time, the War

Demons and Honey

The Heavy Feather

Vertigo

The Echoes of Goodbye

A Utopian Fable

Utopia Haiku

Shadow

Wabi Sabi

Whispers on the Ground

Sometimes the moon is all you have

why i petted the dog

Long Drives

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

Being Finite

Nausea

Numerals

Cameras

I Still Wake Up With Things To Tell You

Hibernation

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

As The Gear Turns

Ouroboros

The Mousetrap

A Coin Toss

“I Love You.”

Yelling At Deaf Ears

2024

Homesick Imitation

LOST AGAIN

Not yet corpses, still we

B Flat.

unsent emails (1)

you lie

unsent emails.

Neverlasting

20 thoughts on “Poetry & Stories

  1. Very nice job Zehwahlala I really like your poems. Can you make more of crackle spit? Very creative Zehwa!

  2. Very nice job Zehwahlala I really like your poems. Can you make more of crackle spit? Very creative Zehwa!

  3. Zehwa… I know you and am not sure you remember me. These poems are absolutely awesome. Still can’t believe the lil girl i she is writing so well! I like “Adventure” a lot. Keep writing… Loads of love!

  4. Our budding Poet Sahiba… when is your next poem due… people are eagerly waiting across Asia and US….

    All the best !!

  5. Hi Zehwa… I read all your poems. The way you pen down your thoughts is absolutely brilliant and a talent quite rare especially for your age!
    I also liked how your writings have such a range from fun breezy to thought-provoking.
    Loved all your poems especially liked – Do you know?, Adventure and Crackle spit 🙂
    Keep it up and of course Keep Writing…Would love to see you morph into a great writer 🙂

  6. Hi Zehwah! This is Ms. Johnston. I miss you in Challenge! Where did you move to? I hope you have some horses there. Please keep in touch. Let me know how you are doing.

  7. Great my little best grand child. I never know that you write so beautiful, Congratulations. Keep it up. I will be watching you.. ALLAH bless you my child.
    Nana

  8. Dear Zehwa

    Great to see such wonderful poems from you. You write so well. Wish u the best

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