Excuse me by Sihle Ntuli

[tabby title="Poet Bio"]Excuse Me you say I am non apologetic & far from apathetic Though being in the district of the sparrow can take it’s toll Like the road that makes me pay for frozen gates Being far away makes...

She Phoenix by Sinovuyo Nkonki

Ashes Ashes blown about in the wind. Trampled on by careless feet. Ashes... Just waiting to defeat her oppressor. Bling Haughtiness and deaf Pride did not see her fiery flames floating in their skies, Did not hear her blazing being...

it’s this walk… this war by Masingita Masiya

[tabby title="Poet Bio"]These traceable steps that dissolve in the road that leads me back here I thought I could lose the road when I ran away But my shadow on the ground is a whisper from the moon That I...

featured poem: In Response to the Blood by Elizabeth Wurz

I When I was a child, I tended to the garden for what seemed like months. From the farm, across the cattle guard, I walked down Highway 60 past the Church of Christ. Its well out back was covered with...

I used to piece words by zamantungwa

I used to piece words In a rhythm that moved hearts My pen kissed the page tenderly And Words would flow To Fuel struggles of woman power, black consciousness and love And so armed with my book Blk and blue...