South Africa poetry
Long Live Apartheid by Yogesh Sharma
I was feeling sad and red, I didn’t know, which way, nation was going. There were quotas all around, Communal, caste,…
South Africa poetry
South Africa poetry
The Growing by Mongane Wally Serote
No! This is not dying when the trees Leave their twigs To grow blindly long into windows like fingers into eyes. And …
South Africa poetry
The Air I Hear by Keorapetse Kgositsile
The air, I hear, froze to the sound searching. And my memory present and future tickles the womb like the pulse of th…
South Africa poetry
Civilization Aha by Sipho Sepamla
i thought of eden the first time i ate a fig i thought of a whiteman …
South Africa poetry
On Judgement Day by Sipho Sepamla
black people are born singers black people are born runners black people are peace-loving these myths make of us naïv…
South Africa poetry
Thought on June 26 by Mazisi Kunene
Was I wrong when I thought All shall be avenged? Was I wrong when I thought The rope of iron holding the neck of youn…
South Africa poetry
Elegy by Mazisi Kunene
O Mzingeli son of the illustrious clans You whose beauty spreads across the Tukela estuary Your memory haunts like tw…
South Africa poetry
The Echoes by Mazisi Kunene
Over the vast summer hills I shall commission the maternal sun To fetch you with her long tilted rays, The slow heave…
South Africa poetry
Poems About Prison by Lemuel Johnson
Cold the clammy cement sucks our naked feet a rheumy yellow bulb lights a damp grey wall the stubbled grass wet with …
South Africa poetry
Nightsong: City by Dennis Brutus
Sleep well, my love, sleep well: the harbour lights glaze over restless docks, police cars cockroach through the tunn…
South Africa poetry
At a Funeral by Dennis Brutus
Black, green and gold at sunset: pageantry And stubbled graves Expectant, of eternity, In bride’s-white, nun’s-white …