Dear South Africa, You are not a child anymore. We should have thrown you a huge street bash and handed you your key to adulthood. But we couldn't. There’s not enough to celebrate. You see, we’re not sure you deserve...

for A Poem A Day writing prompt... [tabby title="Poet Bio"] When war left us behind Our skins still sang songs of rage, We hated ourselves outrageously out of lack of knowledge about our forefather’s thrones And the royalty our blood...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] I have been writing for a while, I am still trying to pen better poems. My fingers have adopted a fashion of wearing pins and needles. I'm hurting... Sometimes pain is hard to scrape off my skin...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Where I live… Sadness is just a walk away. It overcomes you every time you walk its way, But that’s not the only thing that resides there.. There's Anger, Solemn and Cold. They overcome you every time...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] When words leave your mouth Send them away with nothing but truth. When words have grown maturely into sentences, Stanzas, Prose, Poems, Love songs And have packed for their journey to ears and all sorts of minds,...