Pheko Motaung Poems

(For my friends @ P.H.com.)

Here's one of your own boss!
Read some of his poems!
And put him
Out of his miseries!
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In the mountains...the royal
Eagle spreads his wings! And
The brilliant sun shows the
Majesty of his mighty talons!
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Thou mighty troubadour of Heaven!
Thou proud citizen of the lascivious sky!
Invite me to thy fabulous palace of
Thy unconstrained tax free haven where thou
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The moon my darling!
We meet under the moon
So you kiss me here
And the crazy moon winks
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We enter this new era on
the wings of the new era
To usher in peace into the heart
of blessed humanity
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If you have the time
Pause
And read what's
Written on my tombstone
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My children are staring hunger in the face
They're cursed be the hewers and the sewers of wood
For the rest of their doomed lives
They call any man who throws crumbs at them dad
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(To Lady G.After the last encounter...)


It is soft
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Do not come to haul
Me out of my poverty.Rush
To end your own poverty
Of the spirit.I wallow alone
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When they rise and applaud
Where you went wrong don't
Unplug the suicidal tendencies
Lay your head next to your torn
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