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Mpho Petrus Manwedi
Mpho Petrus Manwedi
(February 03.1952 / Barkly West/South Africa)
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Who am I? You know I have been searching for an answer to this question for the past 54 years, February 03 1952, and still I don’t know.
Mpho Manwedi you say? Actually it should be Manoeli, but someone during the apartheid years saw fit to write it as he/she saw fit and there was nothing I could do so I just left it at that and this adds to, “Who is Mpho Manwedi? ”
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Mpho Petrus Manwedi Poems
Be A Man
I was yanked from my mother’s womb
Pushed into this world
Without a choice
Slapped on my behind... more »
The Moon
Suddenly I was awake
Wide-awake like I had never gone to sleep
And the face of the clock at my bedside
Showed me the twelfth night watchman... more »
I Wish
I wish I were the song
That comes to your mind when you are happy
I wish I were the comforting words
Of the song you sing when you are sad... more »
The Climb
I hesitated as I touched her legs
And she coaxed me on as if she could sense
The inexperience of a fifteen year old boy
I ran my hand along her smooth body and I became afraid... more »
Do I Go For It?
I sat there my head bowed in dejection
It had been a long search
But now that it was ended
I did not know what to do with what I had in my hand... more »
Here
It is long since I have been here
Yes you may ask, where is here?
I say you may ask, why here?
So listen to what I’ve got to say about this here... more »
How She Must Have Felt?
She grabbed me roughly from my child sleep
And threw me on her back like a sack of mealies
She used to carry from the fields.
Her back was knotted with the hump in her heart... more »
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The Moon
Suddenly I was awake
Wide-awake like I had never gone to sleep
And the face of the clock at my bedside
Showed me the twelfth night watchman
Had gone by
I looked outside through the window
And the silence of the moonlight called to me
I went out into the stillness of the night
And oh! Oh! Oh! What a beaut,
Oh! What a beaut
In the clear night sky
The moon in sheer brilliance
Was sitting on her throne
And like a virgin bride,
she was fully clothed in white
and all but the lordly stars
were bowing to her in reverence
I stood ...
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