Long Kraal Poems

Preface preceding promiscuous philandering peccadillos
undermining energy and time not spent with missus
and mother of our precious progeny,
whereby, yours truly sought, (somewhat assertively, modestly,
and zestfully) to elicit – illicit prurient heterosexual predilections
before dark shadow of guilt...

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The typewriters tap,
with a rat-a-tat-tat,
like a fourth estate rap
to provide us the pap
(that serves as a snack with a rat-a-tat-tat)
in a newspaper scrap
crammed with meaningless crap
from the editor's yap
(spewing flimflamy flak, booming rat-a-tat-tat)
after gashing a...

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Father time legendarily and Omni potently 
 existentially linkedin, binding cradle to grave 
since advent of homo sapiens, the whiffed bald credo 
 an employee most adhere ta have 
and keep source of income, subtly...

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The putrid, malodorous and fowl nauseating smell 
   can still be conjured nearly fifty years later wracked
I never forget ineradicable tangy, sulfurous 
   acrid odor rankled olfaction tract
entire sinus cavity, yet...

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Lend me a pen, Xhosa's reverberates in me, with honour, one kneel on the ground, hail the tongue clicks, yesterday I was my mom's lil boy, today I woke up a husband, Eastern cape transformed...

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The chanting of a mob descends into the valley from over the hill in a sea of fire
In a wave of belligerence stomp to awaken their own demons
Wielding machetes and torches in the night high...

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Attention! Sit squarely listen keenly, clear your ears
Face on the sun your ears, to melt the tar
Having melted it, to make lighter your ears
Listen now, listen again

I keep begging you, I kneel I kneel
We don’t...

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the event occurs at the call of nightfall
        like the Pied piper it attracts gallant souls
         drum beats,hooting,shouting,pep talks
 ...

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AMERICA  -  THE MELTING POT FOR FREEDOM



I know, as you do, that there is no man who 
Wouldn’t trade his rice bowl empty and dry 
Or his barrio hut and the tse tse...

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Narratives of students shot in cold blood
Not on a shooting range
Draw a mass media headline flood
Background check seems a request strange

To diehard hearts hooked to the dollar
From a gun lobby kitty
Whose grip on petrified leadership...

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A mysterious man of wonder
lived in a village; anything he could do
to a villager or stranger who
stole his wealth

A man staggered in his kraal
a big bull he took away
“you’ll below like a bull
till you vomit...

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MY   WEEK  OFF   WORK


I  would go back to the amber waving grain
I  long to fly to  America again
Oh yes it’s corny  I know
To say I love...

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PLANE    RIDE


I  would go back to the amber waving grain
I  long to fly to  America again
Oh yes it’s corny  I know
To say I love America but it is...

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MY   CONFESSION


Oh yes it’s corny  I know
To say I love America but it is so
When I look around at the restriction 
And these old methods and ways of affliction
In my un-American surrounding
And...

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Arise alive to the call from the Lofty One
the majestic Prince of Peace alights His horse
In splendor He motions towards the place built for His renown
When He walks into the room everything changes 
Darkness flees...

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“Are you aware of human cravings?”
bursts out my grandpa, lips shaking
“Cravings, cravings for everything humans do!
Drink all beers as fish in water 
Elope all queens as a bull in a kraal
Fight for; get all riches...

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I always think, big big and bigger
Less do I forget, asking why and why?
Of all that happen, not a moon bigger
Very little do care, why new no lie
Every mind target, the task ooh nigger

Above and...

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When I stood my face, to steal a glance
You stood your face, to steal a glance
When I caught the thief, catching a thief
You arrested me, I chained you

The sun had just dropped, I had not...

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Like a new baby into the world,
Like a new baby chick into an old kraal,
Sometimes I feel so exposed and vulnerable,
My energy is even at stake.

I am exposed to the energy vampires, 
They do suck...

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VACANCY

My life is like a puzzle,
Riddling my thoughts perpetually,
Overdosing my mind with conundrums,
No solution for this enigma!

Is there someone to...
Reveal my compassion,
To dedicate love to with obsession,
Commitment genuinely in passion,
Jury of executive love in commission.
Seized...

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I am a refuge here!
In this foreign land-
Of luxury of darkness
Where darkness
Laughs at me
Angry winds,
Bite me like scorpions,
Mosquitoes,
Drink me like a pot of beer
Bed bugs, my nocturnal guests,
Hold conferences
To celebrate on my ribs 
Jiggers,
Rip my...

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Polished Dust

Ha- haa our community has reared a bull
As it moves from the kraal it charges
Against a tree, a rock, and anything
When the moon peeps it charges at it	

When the sun rises it sneezes at...

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The laughable friend

The farmer has a friend, laughable he is
The fat ram in his kraal, loyal and cool
Whenever the farmer wants soup
He sharpens knife and calls him

“Come, I want part of your fatty tail,
For a...

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