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Poetry Anthology – Sikelela ka Kheswa-Setsiba

Sikelela ka Kheswa-Setsiba — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:34:17 +0000

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Khumz Nemo Montshiwa

Guest — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:39:06 +0000

A songwriter, musician, band member (Travellin Blak) and dentist by profession (you can find me on Facebook or visit my blog on http://khumzsuperman.tumblr.com/) I am energetic, fun to be around, good friend to have,with me there’s never a dull moment! I love extreme sports and going out, i enjoy good company with peeps who have [...]

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We hold you fiercely by Vangile Gantsho

Vangile Gantsho — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:15:05 +0000

________________________ We hold you fiercely As our own Of our blood Spilt over 300 years of looting You are ours Our forgiveness. Our tolerance Our pain and loss We will bury pieces of you Everywhere our blood has ever poured Give parts of you to everyone who has had to forgive Mkhonto we sizwe sethu [...]

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Kyle Allan

Guest — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:13:30 +0000

In your silent tongue undressing my poem there is a language of broken stones and a lost street there is a fist hidden between two sheets of metal replicating the mind a hand of closed maps a place surrounded by two ears hearing every sound with pain and clarity including the noise of light shattering [...]

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Melissa Kiguwa – The Four Anchors

Guest — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:55:36 +0000

by Melissa Kiguwa ___ i splayed across four lifetimes his mouth, cross cutting star, beckoning my three wise spirits in search of the lost son his chest, beating drum, rhythming me across arid wasteland to trickled streams his legs, straddled oars, beating in slow surrender in reach of the rising [...]

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Phillippa Yaa – The river

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:28:53 +0000

by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers One day the Hillbrow tower started to cry. Real tears poured down its sides collected in the gutters and ran down Banket Street. When the other buildings saw the tower’s sadness, they started to weep in sympathy. Soon the whole city was sobbing, the tears joined other tears and collected [...]

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To my boyfriend’s wife

Guest — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:08:44 +0000

by Melissa Kiguwa To my boyfriend’s wife you carry your pain like a machete sliced smile a glistening kind of deadly melody in your eyes dreams tainted at the root of your hair perhaps in another time we would be could be sisters gossiping about no good shit men the lies they wedding vow promise [...]

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Khomotso Ntuli

Khomotso Ntuli — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:17:52 +0000

LIVE! – I m KhomotsO/De-mI and I Live. if U no me, ther aint a nid 4 tis, if U dnt, we’l mit 1 tym. They are carrying us Who are these beings? of such importance in the creation process who are they? Carrying perfectly balanced handmade weights On their heads lies layered, who… [...]

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