[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Raindrops making music Beating on the lovers` heads Singing a melody of love Soothing and sinking into their hearts Wafting across the vastness of their chests Making them vibrate with amazing cravings Their heads basking in the...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Her feet sore and swollen, Sithembeni Ndlovu trudged down south. She had heard of menial jobs and xenophobic attacks in South Africa. She knew of crocodiles that lurked in the Limpopo River, but she had to cross...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] "I do not have any coins, So for your change Will you take condoms or cigarettes?" Unconsciously she shrinks my choices To either lung cancer Or ninety-something-percent "safe" sex And the percentage decreases considerably If it is...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] There is more nothing my own Than the freedom of my heart The pulse that searches The wilderness for the tame There is no wall more confining Till to the cold wide sea I am forced to...

Calling all Poets! Poetry International (Zimbabwe) in collaboration with Magamba Network and Shoko Festival are inviting performance poets to enter no more than two poems for a competition. The winning ten poems will be published in the Poetry International (Zimbabwe)...