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Mpho Ramaano Poems
A Bleeding Nation
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Pistol bullets take the skies
in the red traffic lighted streets of Polokwane,
some crazy monsters flee the wheels away... more »
I Will Write
Tell me your problems,
Tell me your quarrels,
Tell me your concerns,
Tell me what eats you within,... more »
A Time To Mourn
some ailment ate my father,
they say he died of pulmonary tb,
his death certificate says so too.
with pressed lungs and loose stomach... more »
The Health Question
i watch our sickly kids,
mamas and gogos with wilting flaccid bones
collapse in the long open-ended queues
in public hospitals... more »
Sharpville
in the early hours of an autumn dawn
march 21st,1960
led by the fearless pac activists
we took up torches, lamps and lanterns... more »
In Defence Of The Ndr?
outside the university in turfloop
donning identity of the defenders of revolution
in the hype of petit politics and hooliganism
some criminal drunks tagged sasco... more »
Verwoerd Is Black
This poem is pregnant
with the black bloodshed of 1976.
This poem is constipated
with slavery of the poor.... more »
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A Bleeding Nation
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Pistol bullets take the skies
in the red traffic lighted streets of Polokwane,
some crazy monsters flee the wheels away
leaving behind on a junction,
a trail of blood, a dead man,
who owns the fleeing car.
I take my phone,
call the cops,
they take time to come.
Come investigations, no one is arrested,
but death is registered in someone’s house.
You need no beautified coloured CV
to know those monsters are jobless.
Down Market Street
a beautiful young girl is discovered
on the roadside,
eyes wide open, no breath, ...
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