Edward Elizabeth, Author at INVERSE JOURNAL

Edward Elizabeth

Edward Elizabeth likes to think of herself as a writer, one who is deeply in love with the arts and finds her soul lost in them. She is currently a student of the University of Benin where she gets constantly frustrated by the education system but still holds it together by journaling and writing. She has been published previously but went on a long hiatus to maintain her sanity and well-being. In other words, she is here to stay, persist and seek to write more and contribute more of her creative work in this world.

Portrait of Me as a Ghost – Three Poems by Edward Elizabeth

May 11, 2020 | Poetry

All the way from Benin City, Edward Elizabeth brings us three poems that reflect pain and perseverance through the depths of an anguish past yet fresh in the mind and latent in the soul. A young poet engaging with essential questions of life and death, destruction and creation, survival and healing, Elizabeth’s verses do not shy away from expressing a vulnerability felt far and wide by more than enough people around the world. These three poems were submitted before the times of global pandemic and perhaps serve to remind us that adversity is inherently linked to human life, while vulnerability is best conveyed as strength in the courage to write such verses.