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Cradle of aromas Composer of songs Soothing the intestines Warming the heart Rejuvenating! Resuscitating! African woman Who stirs treasures – Inside my belly; Pots dance To the rhythm Of [...]

Mouth gasps for a serene breath Able to soothe all pain, Only one place exists Where I’ll hum for inner peace. Ears are aching for the unbridled joy Of walls echoing good news, “We are home.” [...]

I yearn for a place; Where mom’s cooking fills the air, And the laughter of siblings echoes. I long for a time; When we’d share granny’s house, With cousins, play until the cock crows. I crave a [...]

Now the bus finally halts; My turn to get off Wish it’d be much longer A bit sad I must walk out, Met a few characters ‘long the way Coming in and getting off Made me forget where I came from And [...]

Dispirited; he was Fragments of his hopes Sliced his wrecked soul. Foul; now his middle name, His life Never been pellucid. Pearls scattered, Once his beam of hope. The milky gown, more misery. [...]

Dry and ugly, Shrinky… A tumble thin stalk Easily blown. Ashen and producing Flash when burnt, Dingy and frail. Poverty adorns me; Wind greedily pushes me To a place of no destiny Grisly [...]

A cloud of ideas hovering before your eyes Writing it with haste before it disappears Poets, novelists, playwrights must find fulfilment in ink and words, right? Or do they get envious when a [...]

Jackal’s tongue was out, drooling, imagining his teeth sinking into the juicy fat zebra meat. His friend Leopard was rolling on the ground with laughter. Leopard never got tired of teasing [...]

Many years ago in the Animal Kingdom, when the animals could speak, a great Sangoma called Sun came and lived among the animals. He was a skilled healer known in all corners of the kingdom and [...]

Once upon a time, animals of every kind from the beasts of the land to the critters and all the creepy crawlies, were gathered together from every corner of the earth for the very first time in [...]