Activities of Mokhele Mabaso

Convalescing after a surgery
I was forbidden by the surgeon
from lifting weight, walking long,
driving, even travelling by car.
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My heart is filled with winter
And love can never again enter
Forever more I shall be a lamenter
Only pain has been left as my center
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We couldn't; nor needn't; didn't.
None whispered; nor near mist-top mountain range.
We couldn't name the norm with such heating pain; would such survive. Around the edges thin, a deed in droughts be blown as thirds, the hurry-hurl of a hurricane our ancestors would wail the weep. And another.
The variation breeds and breathes a cycle of fossils dried. And duned a deed.
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With promise of job,
he lured her into a cane field.
His gentleness a veil of sanity.
Lurking in his mind,
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Ngisahamba kuwo ohlabayo umhlabathi
Ngisawahlafuna wona anhlamvana amabele
Ithemba lami lihleli kuwe M’Veli-Nqangi
Ngoba wena uyiLanga lama langa ami
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IS IT THE IT March 13,2010
© r. Mokhele waga Mabaso

Is it the it? The it on us
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