5am
...As the darkness fades, and the first light of dawn creeps over
the horizon, a new day is born. For many, 5am is just another hour, a time to sleep in, to dream, to escape reality. But for those who ...
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Categories:
zimbabwean, africa,
Form: Spoken Word
Mugabe's Reboot
..."Return of another Goliath, is it?"
Of Course the man was fearless
But time always decides when
Every great man shalt cease to inhale,
Run away from us and
Turn into an angel
Much cherished w...
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Categories:
zimbabwean, 11th grade, art, beautiful,
Form: ABC
Memory
...Memory !
What a brainstorm your are
A translation of nature so beauteous than ever
An illustrated Cupid in my imaginations
With your arrows pointing to sweet bitter notion
You diffuse in a viral...
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Categories:
zimbabwean, leadership,
Form: Blank verse
Delight
...At once she paid a visit. In her colorful dress, so revealing and appealingly suited to her slendern torso. I to gaze the door way, mine heart pounded viciously, a death knock. I was stunned. Then r...
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Categories:
zimbabwean, appreciation,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Rebirth Poem Xi - Black Painting On a Black Wall
...Black Blood was used to paint a picture on a Black Wall. Black Blood was used to paint. Black Blood. Blood bought from the very same people who stood side by side with you 25 years ago. Now that thei...
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Categories:
zimbabwean, hate, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Memories of a Zimbabwean Childhood
...Long ago,the guinea fowls congregated
Clourfully and innumerably
And sang sweet songs
And played in the savanah
They sang for the for the antelopes
To leap and dance in the beautiful grass ...
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Categories:
zimbabwean, change, conflict, creation, earth,
Form: I do not know?
Zimbabwean Crippled Beggar
...Sprawling was he in the roasting sun outside an Indian store.
Shaking and jingling coins in his begging bowl hoping to receive more;
Just as his hunger grew terrible in his begging tummy,
Some ric...
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Categories:
zimbabwean, social,
Form: Sonnet
Zimbabwean Trillionaire -Inflation
...I am the Zimbabwean Trillionaire(inflation)
Oh! Where did they go wrong?
Now i am walking as i like in their country
I have invited my trusted friends,
Billionaire and millionaire
All zer...
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Categories:
zimbabwean, satire,
Form: Narrative
Look, See, Learn
...Look, See, Learn
Look:
Once upon a time boiling braggart was I
‘Fore the Damascene made me look High:
See:
Of Holy Majesty that He so commands,
Has He ever boasted of Power in Hi...
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Categories:
zimbabwean,
Form: Couplet
Mandela In You
...Mandela In You
I scanned into your entire writ
I perceived an unremitting wit;
There’s a Mandela in You,
Oozing from your daring script;
Loaded with a spirit of sacrifice
To eradicate mun...
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Categories:
zimbabwean,
Form: Rubaiyat
Sorida
...Sorida is greet-
Ings. My brother or sister
In Zimbabwean....
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Categories:
zimbabwean, caregiving, childhood, education, family,
Form: Senryu