“I closed your eyes, you opened mine” by Makhanda Senzangakhona

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Thy Will Be Done: "I closed your eyes, you opened mine". Cruel I called itIn my eyes andHuman mind.Today, at tenMatswale,We interred your remains,At sun-set, same dayYou hailed him,He, whom you termed 'better half',by the grave beside...

Profundis by Stephen Kingsnorth

Four themes, reactions dreaded most -not logical, but so it is -if share head sick, depression felt,there follows one or sometimes all.'Me too', I'll not deny be true -they argue that perspective gives -but minimises, leaving blue.To stir the jolly,...

Bleak by Ntaoleng Patience Labane

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] By revealing my deepest darkest fearsI was teaching her not to make me homeI undressed each evil thoughtThat had found room in my headRight in front of herI wanted her to understandThat my metaphors concealOnly for the...

Aquifers sift by Dark Plasma

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] A slanted eye buries the deep ocean's placid silence and bleak hueDrifting ice bags of emotional baggage weigh on her surface a heavy blueTilted shapes of mermaids, eternal devotion and flawless beauty now a beached whaleEarring shells...

Redeeming Qualities by Bad Poet

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] They committed six acts of kindness, towards redemptionBut it was not redeemingHow can the word exist, when it can't be achieved?Just like the false notion that vulgarity is prayer tooWho is it a prayer to? Perhaps to...