Marota Aphane

Marota Aphane Poems

Beat the drums fast
Come all you
Warriors
Children of the besieged
...

I cleared a patch of land
Filled it with roses assorted
...

We are tied
We are tired
...

Just when we wake up
Hear the songs of early birds
The whistling of the morning breeze
Just when we see that colourful east horizon
...

They chased
The law-abiding lamb
In the field
Down the streams
...

So you thought
It will be easy
To have wings
& fly all your ways
...

(Inspired by Quincy’s world)

Come!
Come walk with me
...

8.

The dusk was dawning
Her tender feed were weary
Of fighting an endless
Unconquerable sand
...

All day
I wait my head
Heavily
Balanced
...

(Extract from the play: “The Wait” by the same author)

Every sunrise
We wake our empty stomach
...

You see me
Walking tall
Like a giant
You wish you were me
...

Marota Aphane Biography

Research Officer at in Health Behaviour Research Unit (HBRU) at the University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus) who published some of poem in both South African and international literary journals such as TurfWrite, Magic with words, Recreating through Poetry (which he co-edited) , VoicesNet Anthology of International Poetry and others. The poems in this site are from his unpublished collection 'The sun rises to rest'.)

The Best Poem Of Marota Aphane

Afrika I

Beat the drums fast
Come all you
Warriors
Children of the besieged
Mother Afrika
Lets stump the ground hard
& raise the dust
Let the dead know
It means war

That bloodstained
Old monster
Santa
Still continues
Flooding and feeding
Our seedlings
With that barren poisonous
False taste
Coca-cola

Lets ban the curser
Lest we parish.

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