
Stand firm.Swiftly Past advances to claim fragile Future,conspiring with her transport:The Thieves of Time. All Rights ReservedCopyright © 2022 Tebogo Ndlovu
When tomorrow comesyet it seems a chore,Count the many hurdlesthat have become a bore.Wring them for all they’re worth,gauge out their core.Serve them to the dogs,make an event of it draped in hope galore.Then count what’s leftand let the surviving … Continue reading
They told him all he needed:a morsel of healthy painand the grace to manage it. He turned into an angry bird,combusted into smithereens of self-righteousness.They shrugged in response, engineered a death geneerased him from the book of immortals… He died … Continue reading
You should see the fall of Jacaranda flowerslate in a Savannah yearsilently genialgently sweepingpink as half of a young couple’s moodwhile in the throes of heartbreak’s bloom. You should have seen the beautiful death of Jacaranda flowers…how I’ve tried to … Continue reading
A pair of bodies splayed on a soft settee.Three glasses of red wine each,Four smooth songs laterHeads bob up and down,chins swaying to a drunken rhythmuntil all goes black, to royal blue. A dream unfolds that mundane nightHere comes a … Continue reading
She may have sounded furious, but only because she was doubly susceptible to base emotions back then -and the sharp edges of ‘harmless’ advice, fixing ‘with love’. Something was amiss, so that all seemed inside out. Petty was noble, for … Continue reading
If that is sothen let it come from your heart,not your ego.Let the genuine and tender be apparentalong the lines, furrowsvalleys, plateaus of your face;and the hairy underbelly of your nature.Let it be that you could have mined herfor all … Continue reading
The voices of my roots are mellow-sometimes shrillI sense their reverberations in my bones,a call for guidance,whether or notto grow up, up all around me,crawl around my frame,tiptoe across my neck-squeeze.Or to grow deep into the earth,sturdy and confident,grounded by … Continue reading