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Best Poems Written by Ronny Madonsela

Below are the all-time best Ronny Madonsela poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Good Night Pretoria

The sun kneels to kiss the 
skyscrapers
The Darkness floats above like 
clouds
And those homeless become 
accidental campers
Setting their plastic beds on the 
cold floors

These black concrete rivers
Flood with moving lights
And its banks are swarmed 
With men who’s faces lulled 
Locked in deep thought

As the night ages once more
Laddies emerge from the 
Corners of the streets
Clothed with nothing but 
desperation and despair
As they seek an audience with 
men of matrimony,
They sway their hips fishing 
them to their cause 

Good night Pretoria, the city of 
dreams.

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Alone In My Mind

Have you ever cried?,
Felt your mind go loose 
As you lose sanity.
The people around you
Slowly shrinking until
They vanish into thin air

Silence screaming in your ears
Then solitary you find yourself
Glimpses of you being normal
Pazzling your mind like a math 
test.

An awkward silence after anther
You could berely tell who you 
are.

Have you ever felt a pain so 
deep?,
Your heart drowns in all the 
misery.
Anger consumes you
Then followed by a tantrum
That could last a life time.
All the good memories
Have been reduced to one 
sweet nightmare
Irradiating on what your life 
should have been.

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I Wish Happiness

I wish i could bake 
a cake made of
joy, happiness and loughs
so everybody could 
eat and be happy

I wish I could invent 
a radio full of sounds
of peace so we listen, 
And stop war, rage and anger

Sometimes I wish
we could focus on
our talents and abilities,
rather than our differences

And I wish we could all 
encourage
and not discriminate
so that we all reach 
our full potential

I wish
we could all live life
to the fullest

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I Am Alive

I AM ALIVE!

Your mistake, my creation

In truth I am just speck  

Flowering obliviously in your gut

Does that mean distraction?

 

My heart now beats

And I bear fits filled with my future

Waiting to be unleashed to the world unknown,

With my eyes wide shut

I imagine you to try and picture you

I hear you speak, I hear you laugh

Isn’t that the perfect lullaby?

 

My legs kick hard but you try to hide:

One night’s extravaganza

All under your T-shirt

Like it’s all in a day’s work 

Don’t you want me mommy?

  

I am the gift you never asked for  

But then life is to die for.

How I wish to write to Santa,

Have him deem my innocence

Before he awards me with my gift

I get life for Christmas? 

Afford me the chance to be!

I am alive I breath through you.

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In Dreams

In dreams i kiss destiny full on 
the lips
I hold her close as I gazed in 
her star lit eyes
She murmurs sofly before she 
lifts her hand
Her touch visits my face finally, 
my heart races
Then she fades into the 
whiteness reaching her palms 
out for me.

To be continued...
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Tomorrow, Where Are You

Tomorrow where are you ?

I am a child of mzansi, 
A child of a nation raised by a struggle of apartheid, as I emerge as a wound 
Meant to glister, advertising the anguish of my fore fathers 
Raised to cease all the nation’s bounty in their name,
As their pain can still be felt through the cracked township tar roads.
I am the promised future,  
Born of tireless protests, teargas and blood 
Blood washed clean of the judgments of my skin colour 
And left to germinate on this waste land called poverty
As mothers fertilise this land one clean toilet at a time.
I am the repressed grievance of the people,
Who’s voice never transcended beyond the ballot paper
Trapped in a subliminal blackmail of before 1994
And feed grand promises of a better tomorrow 
As two decades waste way I still ask “Tomorrow, where are you?”

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How To Kill a Printer

Throw it over the second floor
Or better yet bathe it
Since it never seem to.
Kicking doesn’t help
Or talking either
Everybody just thinks me crazy.

I’ve thought of starving it
No paper, No work
We’ll see who’s smiling now.
Oh wait for a sec,
Do printers eat Ink or paper?

This machine irks me
So before I kill it 
I wonder,
How much jail time 
Do I have to do
For killing one Stupid Printer?

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Lovelos

A real african women
I was but a boy
Bewildered by her beauty
This love deemed sickly
By those other men

Her eyes saw nothing but my 
soul
And in there dwelled a man
Trapped as a child
I enslaved by time
That i could never fold

The illusion of love slipping from
my fingers
That we couldn't be lovers
Drowns me to no end
As all I am now is a friend
Inlove with a mirage of you.

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Bleeding Skies

Flaming shperiods descend
As the clouds swirl frenziedly
Uprooting erections

The seas withdraw then rise
To swallow the earth
As death enters

The grounds depart
To sail the seas
As ember paints the skies

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Morning's Smile

warm and tender
you greet the skies
morning's smile