Phillippa Yaa de Villiers Poems

Hunger grumbles,
fragrant food seduces
the stomach
rumbles;
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The Yeoville winter evening
loves its people
skin to skin:
this seducing season that
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I invited our president to tea. I said:
"I have issues with your take on identity
so bring your kneepads, it's going to be a bumpy ride.'
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Only the desperate, and only a fool
Picks up hitchhikers, by day or by night;
This is the wisdom and this is the rule.
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For Keorapetse Kgositsile, on the occasion of his 70th Birthday

You are everybody's child:
you stand at the intersection
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They permeate, the poor, their eyes and knees
as thin as rain, these children staring,
as democracy parades through the streets.
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One day the Hillbrow Tower started to cry.
Real tears poured down its sides
collected in the gutters,
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I joined the thousands at Matthew Goniwe's funeral,
carrying burning flames of righteous indignation.
And on that day
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