Poetry

Jacarandas & Sunsets

A meandering conversation left me feeling antsy, confused, and exposed and all forms of upset… But still that couldn’t take away the beauty around me of Jacarandas & Sunsets... I’ll never...

These Gates

The gates that keep me from seeing the back of my television set,The gates that keep me from seeing the back of my television set,The gates that keep me from seeing behind the back of my television...

Painful Love / Cries of loneliness

Even surrounded by lifeLoneliness gropes at my throatI can't breathe because of the heavy emotion that seats very audiblyat the pit of my chestI'm barely hanging on for my own lifeThe syndrome that causes a manufacture of...

Littered Souls

More than theyMore sick than theyWe still blame theyWe are manyThey are fewLittered souls Dirt we don’t mindBoys are girlsGirls are boysChildren are wivesWives are husbandsHusbands are wivesSelf-marriage!Animals give birth to ManUpside down

I am motherhood

I am motherhood I am the earth that holds lifeThe grains of sand from which the songs of laughter waftRivers of life run through me to cultivate the love taught by the layers beneath...

Child Within

I have seen the world beginby women speakingtheir child within:I can do this, I can do thatI want this, I want thatI am this, I am thatI know this, I know that But somehow...

Jilted, Wilted

What have I done wrong in this here life?Jilted, tilted, wilted before my timeDumped, dragged with shame in flames No call; no scream; just in waiting and equating…To laugh and cry in isolationPunishment of...

Cognitive Chimurenga

Liberation of the mind, mine is a Cognitive Chimurenga… Armed with a questioning mind, calculated risks, informed opinion,with a dash of brilliance which makes others think ndinopenga! I’ve learnt that life is too short to...

Because I am a Girl

Bayethe Mthwakazi kaNdaba!!Kambe kulicala na ukuba yinkazana?Ngithi kulicala na ukuba yintombazane? Ngididekile ngididekile Zulu kaNdaba…… Kweyiswa lokhuKophela nyakana kutheni?Kambe kungaKungenxa ngiyinkazana na?Yes! I guess itIs because I am a girl Mthwakaz’omhle, Zulu...

Woman

WomanI have an appetite for the hungryWonder swimming in your black irises,For the certitude fast fermenting in your Winery.The grapes are aged and ripe –fiery fervor rolls off yourFierce tongue. Bend your knees, meet...
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The image of Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana is bitterly etched into the collective consciousness of Zimbabwe. It comes from a photograph that was...

Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda 

POVO Afrika · Pauline - Handikanganwe Mbuya Nehanda Just a girl in the world and you had to be...