LLM Mbatha Poems

Why does it remind me of you
This sound of rain
This sight of parallel silver lines
On the other side of my window pane
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the sun is not the sun
it's an eye of heaven
a time calculating device
the brightness of a face
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Say your love say it true say it well
Say it loud say it again say your love
Say it today, please say it now!
And if that one your heart dreams
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if the sky does not fall in love
why then does she weep to flood
the planet's liquid and solid faces
why does she wail with such a thunder
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Warrior sons of Zulu
of uMnguni, uMalandela, and uPhunga-noMageba
Singing the songs of death
the songs of life
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One day when everyone
Has shot down everybody
The birds and the beasts
Shall rule the world
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I'll throw my feelings out the door
I don't need them anymore
I'm heart broken and confused
I told my love but she refused
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My father loved the rain
Rain with hailstones
Twenty years gone past
When green and blue
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Uthando lubopha
Ingqondo kanye nomoya wami ngabhande linye
Lwehlukanisa umzimba wami, nenhliziyo yami
Angikwazi nokucwayiza
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Uthando lubona okuncanyana, okusheshayo
Ukuthinteka kwezindebe zomlomo noma okwamehlo
Lwehlukanisa um’bala no m’bala ibe ifana
Ngobuchule lu khiphe obomvu ko bomvu
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