Phiwokuhle Mpendulo Manana Poems

Face furrowed and wet with sweat,
Bags tied to their wasp waists
Women reapers bend mielie stalks
Break cobs in rustling sheathes
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Buso bushwace bushwalale kanye nem'juluko,
Tikhwama ekhalweni lwamanyovu
Bafati bagamule emahlanga
Bagamule tibhuluja etintini letivulekile
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This one's for you Lady....!

My love for you is like the most comely tomato,
Your face reminds me of gorgeous white birds,
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Dear....

I have a small confession.
Forgive this pouring of my heart.
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Merely maggots paint the town red upon
Seeing a tortured brute
Vultures whistle their trumpets
At the spectacle of an antelope's foot in the grave,
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Where you succeeds with cloudless brow,
In common and in holy course,
I fails, in spite of prayer and vow
And agonies of faith and force;
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When I behold the skies aloft
Passing the pageantry of dreams,
The cloud whose bosom, cygnet-soft,
A couch for nuptial I seems,
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The Rose of the World.
Lo, when the Lord made North and South
And sun and moon ordained, He,
Forthbringing each by word of mouth
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The destined maid; seine hidden hand
Unveils to me that loveliness
Which others cannot understand.
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Once more I met you close,
With joy half memory, half desire,
And breathed the sunny wind that rose
And blew the shadows o'er the Spire,
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