Black Mampatile by Joshua Nkwana

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] It is through crowded streets of my villagethe songs that echoes from empty tinsand open bottles, that I recall black mampatile –as if returning to childhood is remembering yesterdaylike now. [tabby title="Poet Bio"] Nkwana Joshua Serutle is...

Careful by Joshua Nkwana

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] in childhood:careful means nothing;just play around. in teenagehood:careful means do it;the only way to understand the language of fireis through burning. in adulthood:careful means careful;grown-ups know well when it burnsor brokenby staying away from it. [tabby title="Poet...

Memorial trails by Joshua Nkwana

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] memorial trails at 6: I couldn't see the footprints of chalk on a black board,unless I stayed foot to foot on the front desk. at 9: I got bullied day in and day out,for my blurred eye...

To my beloved by Joshua Nkwana

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] I've been ablaze on a page my hand as oxygen feeding my skin to grow thicker I had no words to give my page a voice but emotions overflowing blood jumping out of my veins my skin...