Sir Tshiamo Modise Poems

Ke dirobaroba nakedi tsa ga Mmasedi' a Mphela
Ke tlou ya ga Mmammipa-a Moatshe
Pholola matlhare, Pholola Matlhare oo Masudubele
Motho wa ga nthapele ga ke ntse
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Fa nkabo ke itse kene ketla ipala mebala ya kgaka
Fela bontle jwa gago bo a nkgaka
Ke aga ke felela ka lele reng ke mabele
Mme o ntebe ekare ware ipale ya kgaka eseng ya serurubele
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LOVING HER IS AN ACT I’LL NEVER ABDICATE
SHE IS CLOSE TO MY HEART
LIKE A WARM HOME HUT
I’D NEVER MORTGAGE EVEN TO A BANK I APPRECIATE
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Being aware that what she uttered to his ears were sweet nothings meant nothing.
He continued to listen with a bogus gesture of promise and understanding.
The reason being her sweet mesmerizing voice which sounded like a piano complemented by a harmonious coherent single cord harp, and her company which soothed his soul and gave it the buoyancy of floating whenever his heart leaped.
The music and luxury that no man would wish to either cease or forfeit had it been within and never beyond his control.
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It’s good when everything is bad
You don’t have to get me to dig what I am saying
Yeah it’s cool to be hot, are you confused?
That’s swagg in the pushing
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I

I am pranged up by laziness
God help me abort
I do not want to suffer
The pains of hard labour
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My love for you painted my world with happiness
Until I decided to re-paint it with your true colours

I walked through hot lava
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A rhetoric question I’ve been living
How you knowing the contents of my heart would set me free
Maybe I was wrong
The same thing is still having my heart for lunch you see
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Bought a pen, got a page and met a stage
Clouds of our memories formed and my soul smiled before ink could wet the page
It is an odd norm that whenever my soul smiles
I put a full stop and nothing I write afterwards
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