We asked Mandi Poefficient, a performance poet in Johannesburg, about what drives her. Poetry Potion: When did you start writing poetry and why? Mandi Poefficient: I began writing poetry in matric, there was a piece I remember doing about my...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] I hear soothing whispers of calmness Gently entering into my ears And serenades my head The achievement of an aim I see a lively and elegant statue Priding her head above others She stands in starry brilliance...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Survive on Poetry potion! Live beyond five, Publish beyond online. Survive on Poetry potion! Live beyond five, Continue to encourage and to comfort. Continue to enlighten and to inspire. Survive on Poetry potion! Live beyond five, Make...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] First soft and unknit to mould through mothers to begin this work of hardening frame growing upwards to fall free when six from the top of the world, fracturing fear and breaking in three places casting a...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] He is my perfection personified not only perfect in the flesh but the spirit as well he is the glistening light at the start of my awakening a light so bright i cant help but shine with...