Thursday, February 25, 2021

The poet (is dead)

Though your poems are not written 
And the gory ink dried before our own shaken eyes 
You lived in simile and melancholy
Metaphors of agony 

You seared your parting lines 
With graceful grandeur 
Like a revered poet 
Holding firm the flaming pen that wrote your life 

Murmurs still linger 
Of the unknown poem 
You left behind for us 
To decipher 

To find meaning 
Of the light that shone so bright 
For us, it blinded itself 
And walked itself to oblivion 

We still stare in awe 
Wondering if these lines continue 
For the poem was yet to be written 
Now the poet is dead 

His ink-less veins shattered 
Like a harrowing nightmare 
Blazed out of reality 
The poet is dead


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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Sandra (History)

Herstory

Mystory

Ourstory

She died

 

- adpted from Murena Mawela

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Moment of Silence

 It is a moment of silence

Say no to thoughts running wild

Hold close your heart

Before its captured by rapturous fires

Angers and joys of sadness 

Its time for yoga 

Dont roll out a mat 

For its the soul that needs to 

stretch still on the mat of silence 

Find calm in the madness 

And stop 

the rioting blood, the angered hope 

There is tomorrow, another day 

Another hope in the rising sun 

But for now stretch out 

On the floor of anguish 

And agonize on nothing 

for today is history
tomorrow is an idea

yesterday is a mirage 

with all its ills 

dont let it live

Stretch it out on the mat of silence  

- for 1 December 2020

 

Friday, November 20, 2020

Vhuhwini

Vho makhulu vha gai?

Vho malume ashu vho vhonwa nga nnyi?

Khotsi ashu vhana ni?

Vho ela sa mutshundudi

He vhaya ahu athu vhonwa

Vho khuya vhuhwini, pfamo isini mikano

Sedzani mashubini Tshipange

Lavhelesani Ngulumbi

Ndi mudi de usina tshitanga?

 

Vhudzisani

Ni vhone arali litshe lo lala

 

 Makhulu vha kha divha tshiulu naa?

Tshine ra tamba ti tshi gonya

Khe ho tou duu?

Muludzi usa tsha lila?


Naa vhathu vha gai?

Vho farwa lwendo 

Vhuyiwa ndi vhuhwini

Aredi hanengei

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Incomplete

 A word

A sentence 

A paragraph

Chapters and Sections

Hardly a book

So nothing can be read of my covers

Incomplete and seemingly never ending 

A string of expression, muddied 

In this muted pursuit for things that seek expression



Monday, June 8, 2020

For George Floyd

I didn't write a poem,
when they choked you
I didn't write a poem
When his knee was on your neck
I didn't write a poem
when you expired
I didn't write a poem
When they rose
I didn't write a poem
Throughout the eruptions
I didn't write a poem
When like a wild fire
You soul set the world alight
I didn't write a poem
For their knee was on my neck
I can't breath
Living on borrowed times
Handcuffed since time immemorial
Face down in internal surrender
hissing and gasping
For a better day tomorrow
In a Whiteman's world
 - For George Floyd

P.s whats a poem for a nigga gasping on his last breath 


Monday, June 1, 2020

Messiah

There was a time
The Lord ran for dear life
He found refuge
In the motherland
She has been abused
Raped and debased
But tell her kids the truth
When the Lord was captured by fear
Rejected by his kith and kings
And for him, his father sought safety
He came to us
Then what of our motherland?
If the Lord found refuge in her
She saved him
She is the Lord's Messiah


Masses

Masses are an alter
You bring them in I perish
I cannot stand to suffocate
I long for a place far off
In the hills and mountains
In the valleys
Far from this chaos
Of a madding crowd
Happy in their joys
Happy in the anguish
Set me afar from their happiness
I want the truth

Sunday, May 31, 2020

These Two

These two walked on together
Hands pretending to hold firm
They are walking  apparently
To the end of the rainbow
But nobody asks whose rainbow?
Who owns the red, yellow, blue?
Who owns the glittering pot of gold
At the end of this rainbow
Can it end already
So that the owner can take his gold
And return home
His gold he says
Dug from my land
Dug by my sweat
Polished in my toils
But apparently we are walking
Walking talking in harmony


Monday, May 4, 2020

The Great Race - Runners (The Freedom Ave. Series)

Its a race beyond the human race
Racing to an unknown end
So they run and run

Run to sunday school
Run to primary school
They keep running

Run to fall in love
Run to fall out of love
They keep running

Run to the store
Run for dinner
They keep running

Run to the table
Run to the tree or the toilet
They keep running

And along I start running
Along you start running
The they continue running

No one knows where the race goes
But the race continue
Breeding runners along the way

Some fall by the way side
But the running continue

They run to bury them
They run to forget them
They keep running

Its not a circle
Its not a square
Its an infinite string

No one knows when it started
No one know when to shall end
But someone lives to see your end
When at last the race run faster than you
And you fall by the wayside

Running to the cemetery of runners