Fishing: Snout and Trout by Makhanda Senzangakhona

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] For a trillionEqual to our economyOr just a billionYou, stop the globe on its axis? What of a millionNot in your dreamsTo some, amongst us,That's change,Not worth drooling! Just a tenth of itI'd be lost with it.Perhaps,three...

Down, But Not Out by Makhanda Senzangakhona

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Belly up orFace downin this sweltering asphalt lavaBetween rock bottomOf the gaping volcanic pitAnd yawning dome aboveNone is without the otherIf what's up dare descendThose already downCan only rise Amidst nagging silencesAnd whispering sirensof sprouting avariceA descent...

After the Night: Our Day is Due by Makhanda Senzangakhona

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] RebornAgainAcross the riverHome once moreStrangers in nativityThe most familiar placeStomping ground of the godsHad I known what I now knowWhy would I waste my daysIn Babylon of captivity?When all I needed doingWas stowawayand crawl againBack into the...

A Longing of Home: The Homeless Trinity by Makhanda Senzangakhona

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] For a roof over our headsAnd a blanket for our nightmaresPavements for our pillowsFrom refuse bins our daily dietDwellers of the streetSame in addressEqual in our ragsSiblings of necessityStill we strive between usFor a morsel of senkgwacrumbled...

Matriarch Heart by Makhanda Senzangakhona

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Matriarch Heart A mother to manyA heart close to noneA fortress for fugitivesThrust between exiles' flightand pangs of dawn's advanceYou endured undeterred-The unsung asylumShielding the broodFrom ever hovering hawksDrooling at scent of prey.Our abiding sentinelOf the lingering...