Thursday, February 25, 2021
The poet (is dead)
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
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
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
Monday, June 1, 2020
Messiah
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
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
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)
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