And Just Like That – We Rehearsed A Home
And Just Like That – We Rehearsed A Home After spending many a few moons apart The initial feels much like an eclipse practice run Until the rays run dry as the sun bond the Read More …
Tag: Poetry
It Is When Death Is Without That We Most Are
By Tiro Makhudu It is when death is without that we most are and only when we’re without that death is. There is therefore no rationality in the fear of death for in death we find Read More …
She Loves Me Not :(
By Phila Nonkelela ………. Born out of a wedlock, I am a product of the sperm a condom couldn’t block. hated for being conceived, like it was my fault she was deceived. She knows no Read More …
Virago…
You pitched a flag etched with your memories I spell your name with my loneliness My pain pronounced sounds like you That new nigga looks like how I feel Why are you settling? Velvet Valerie Read More …
Lost Manuscripts From A Conversation I Had with A Girl that Wasn’t There… By Kagiso Maloma
Conversation With A Girl that Wasn’t There… The real question I really wanted to ask her was: Why the hell are you not here Telepathic in her senses she replied: you not yet ready to receive Read More …
Feels Like I’m Doomed Dealing With Women Who’s Past Relationships With Their Exs Won’t Allow Us To Bloom…
Not a gloomy tale of ghosts dressed in white and catchy songs like ‘who you gonna call’ Weird enough I seem to level with monsters as they seem to know what they want But a Read More …
Lost Manuscripts From A Conversation I Had with A Girl that Wasn’t There…
Conversation With A Girl that Wasn’t There… The real question I really wanted to ask her was: Why the hell are you not here Telepathic in her senses she replied: you not yet ready to receive Read More …
The Bargain… By Oscarine Latoya Malabele
The resolve had nil to do with equity The bargain was made to settle the fury of the indigent And to protect the prerogative of the advantaged, nothing to do with impartiality This accepted resolution Read More …
Dear really cute girl with a boyfriend… By Joshau Bennet
Dear really cute girl with a boyfriend who I suspect doesn’t love her half as much as I could if given the proper chance. Hello, My name’s Keegan and this may seem rather strange but Read More …
INTIMACY "Shhh I Want You" … By Moshibudi Thatego Madia #vdayspecial
I want those Late night Spooned up So tight Type of evenings Those Marvin Gaye
How My Morning Alarm Took Away My Simonique… Flabo The unAuthordox
You see I had to put her name in the poem coz I know it would catch your attention… Name so unique it just rolls off the tongue…. Like ‘hey Simonique’ Okay maybe she a Read More …
16 Bars For Kendrick Lamar… By Joshua Bennett
16 Bars For Kendrick Lamar… One: Incomparably complex compositions kill off commonplace conservative condescension; these cocksure clowns can’t even come through. I commend Compton, that black future, super computer for producing you Two: Kendrick; Read More …
"THIS IS WHAT MAKES ME A SOUTH AFRICAN" Mandela Day dedication By Kagiso Maloma
This poem is undated, it is neither truth, fiction nor lie. It’s what you make of it… I’m a South African For I call my two room bedroom house a compound, a part of my Read More …
CONVERSATION WITH A LEGEND… By Moshibudi Thatego Madia
He told tales… Sad tales of the black child. He spoke of how he was shackled, Chained and sold. He related to me Stories of slavery, How the black child went from Being king, To Read More …
I'm Not A Perfect Writer But I Enjoyed Writing This Piece Perfectly Fine… By Lunga V Ncala
Am not a perfect lover! Ah fuck it I’m a perfect lover of self. And the imperfections of my future uhm will see. I do know that I’m going to love the hell out of Read More …
This Type Of Love… By Shihan
“And check this, I want to place those little post-it notes All around the house so she never forgets how much I love her type love” I want a love like Me thinking of you Read More …
