Natalia Molebatsi, born in the Township Tembisa, near Johannesburg/South Africa, is a writer, performance poet, workshop leader and event manager. She has already performed in places such as Azerbaidjan, Senegal, Italy and the UK and has shared the stage with artists like Lebo Mashile, Alice Walker and Simphiwe Dana.
Molebatsi performed at the 2009 Women in Africa and the African Diaspora International Conference in Nigeria and in the 2012 Programme of the Cultural Olympiade in London as a representative of South Africa.
hello journey people hello
welcome to these pages
these are the stages on our journey
hello, goodbye.
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i wish you whole
as words water a flower
beneath the yellow rays of yearnings
beyond the reach of growling pains
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this heart is built around
string songs of tears and its
occasional joys and endearments
born to ‘boogey' beyond its melancholies
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- hey music man
promise you will live a long
very long time
and when you die one day
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