Poetry
Satellite
by Dr Stephen Mncube on Apr.11, 2011, under Poetry
The moon a satellite that relays the awakening day and the sleeping night of this secretive earthly life to the heavens that call for openness and receives signals from meteorites hurriedly utting across the heavens full of calamity and pandemonium caused by the newly born planets and stars that must contest for occupancy of space [...]
Flight to the moon
by Dr Stephen Mncube on Apr.11, 2011, under Poetry
In the deepest moment of my solitude, I found solace in glazing with my naked eye to the full moon with all its splendour and magnificence and the mysteries that lay around the moon attracted my imagination to wonder into the hills and valleys of moon and all the skirmishes of terrestrial life remained in the dark [...]
Poem by Don Mattera
by Pavitska Badasie on Mar.21, 2011, under Poetry
Let us halt this quibbling of reform and racial preservation saying who belongs to which nation and let the children decide it is their world let us burn our uniforms of old scars and grievances and call back our spent dreams and the relics of crass tradition that hand on our malignant hears and let [...]
Inside my Zulu Hut
by Pavitska Badasie on Mar.21, 2011, under Poetry
It’s a hive without ant bees to build the walls with the golden bricks of honey. A cave cluttered with a millstone, calabashes Of sour milk clay pots of foaming beer sleeping grass mats Wooden head rests tanned goat skins tied with riempies To wattle rafters blackened by the smoke of kneaded Cow dung burning [...]
Madiba A Person With The Eyes Of Enlightenment
by Pavitska Badasie on Mar.21, 2011, under Poetry
My life was steeply rooted In Washington DC the Capital City That everybody in the world Wants a place to stay. In DC I serviced over hundred Nationalities in the Language lab. You looked at me once. The spark In your eyes And the wrinkles in your face That have grown deep Like the Indian [...]
A Page In Mapungubwe
by Pavitska Badasie on Mar.21, 2011, under Poetry
In my vein and artery Runs blood of my ancestors Who are long buried In the hills and valleys In this ancient kingdom Popularly known as Mapungubwe My heart seeks a deeper understanding Of the mystery bestowed upon me By my African ancestral spirit The pathway that covers Mapungubwe And other ancient sacred places That [...]
My last name is the Universe
by Pavitska Badasie on Mar.21, 2011, under Poetry
Oh! Yeh angelic forces that dwell in the blessed star Of our God and our Allah and our Buddha and our Krishna and our Modimo, and Utixo and the deities that are as multitudinous as the desert sand; Send down to this planet earth a message of peace and Tranquillity to combat the evil [...]
Climate Change Is Nothing
by Pavitska Badasie on Mar.21, 2011, under Poetry
CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOTHING COMPARED TO HEAVENLY FURY DISCRIPTIVE LAWS OF NATURE HAVE NO MERCY OR RESPECT IN THE PRESERVATION OF CIVILISATION OF MANKIND IN THIS PLANET EARTH DISTRUCTION CAN COME ANY MOMENT IN TIME. CALL IT THE HEAVENLY FURY. THUNDER AND LIGHTNING STRIKES LIKE A BALL OF FIRE MENACINCING PEOPLE, ANIMALS AND DISTRUCTION OF PLANT [...]