Gazlam Motaung Poet Sapphic stanza

Sappho Preaches Fire!

''Although only breath,words which I command are immortal''-Sappho, The Lover of Lesbos


              The Lover's Lane Sermon. Uncensored Version


Klevahs jive with hollow echoes,streets glow like fake scenes,
Slaap Jans parade as greatness,hollow hearts clap along,
Pleasure devours the thoughtful,noise replaces silence-
  We are caught flat-footed  in limbo.

They worship nyaope,ignore the forge of truth,
Truth bending Influencers preach, Vloggers sermonize,
Top shayelas reigns and the meek pretend wisdom-
 The Springbok sees the deceit.

Tomorrow will mock them,their children inherit shadows,
Malls,taxi ranks,hearts unsung,flames extinguished,
The music of courage lost,echoes fading in skyscrapers-
 Regret will stalk their lives

I lament the death of song,ink drowned in apathy
Lover's letters lost in feeds,silenced,poems scrolled away
Wisdom left unread,memory hollowed by light-
 The Secretary Bird mourns alone

Leaders smirk from gilded chairs,blind to justice,
Corruption glitters, where virtue once held sway,
Yet look to the ancients: Suzman,Blackman,Harmse
Mothers of wisdom guide the lost.

Return to fire,not fashion,return to song,not slogan
Seek beauty in duty,love as flame,not fleeting-
Let truth rise,let courage blaze anew,
Flames heal-if we risk the blaze.

    Guide to The Uncensored Lover's Lane Sermon:

In your reading of this fragment be guided like this 
Stanza 1-  The Eternal Blaze
Stanza 2:  The Falsehoods
Stanza 3: What moderns will regret
Stanza 4: What Sappho herself regrets
Stanza 5:Flawed leadership/Moral regeneration
Stanza 6: The solution to all of mankind's problems

Beautiful friends of Sappho:

Suzman: Helen Suzman
Blackman: Molly Blackman
Harmse:Hellena Susana Harmse

Click languages terms:

Kaas-The lokasie,the kasie,the location,the township.All places where black South African live
klevahs-the wise guys
Slaap Jan-A know-nothing
top shayelas-the high living
nyaope-drugs
tounship-township

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