How Can We Not Have This Conversation
...How can we not have this conversation
where footprints of the poor vanish
beneath the boots of investors,
and the river sings only
to those who can afford its luxury?
In Chobe, the elephants...
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Categories:
kraals, community, conflict, corruption, feelings,
Form: I do not know?
A Sojourner's Prayer
...I have no place to call home
I have no man to call friend
Alone in this dreadful world
With the sky as my roof:
And the clouds as my blanket
How safe can I be?
I am a sojourner!
I go anyplac...
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Categories:
kraals, courage, endurance, society, sympathy,
Form: Verse
Tale of a Peasant
...He lives there, where people love
Land as mother, worship agriculture
People of his nation, after independence
brought green, white, yellow, blue revolutions
to meet with the crisis of food
to...
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Categories:
kraals, feelings, funeral, grief, poetry,
Form: Fibonacci
Ooh Lord Give Me Time To Pen a Verse
...Ooh Lord,
Lost between files, forgotten in daily schedules
slipping away in the daily humdrum of dear life
and quietly ebbing from my mind is a verse.
Of the warm embrace of the yellow orb that ...
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Categories:
kraals, imagination, introspection, on writing
Form: Imagism