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Respected II by Kabelo Mashishi

Today I’m irrelevant One day I will be relevant My crying voice shall be heard It will run faster than a cheetah It will one day move grounds As earthquakes shake them Why you not respect me? I will marry...

Black and Blue by Carol Ronaldson

The sky is bruised black and blue an angry wound across the sun, a taunting wind plays hide and seek in the tops of trees, blowing leaves teasing hair under skirts laughing here laughing there kissing this kissing that runs...

Love This Lie by Sihle Ntuli

The volumes on silent Just loud lines that run head on to your face Tight lines leave stretch marks now your head is defaced Second opinions leave exclamation marks to scar the forehead After metaphors give birth to four heads...

Saguaro by Tosin

When you leave the Yankee East and, crossing the vast Middle, reach the American West, the air gets drier, and the world becomes roomier, dreamier. The forest is called desert – Sonoran – in spite of the oily bushes of...

My Father by angelluv

He ruled my life like no king Or god or flesh could ever do He looked after me like no mother Could look after her child He pampered me like no husband Could do for his wife He was and...