I just love these

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Love Unthinkable

[this is for all those who have ever been told by others that they cannot love based on race, nationality, culture, sexual orientation, disability and even gender]

Beauty inspired; found in pain and misery
Two seeds sown beneath the same tree and difference grew into unity
But grass that's greener stems not from equality and so is the beginning of a beautiful tragedy

Shadowed in a world choked by weeds of hate
These winds of change still devastate and two seeds, in sunlight and cold breeze, separate

Waiting for the fall of night
Where a black curtain finds to their delight
And 'til the break of dawn two seeds once again reunite

Strange
What draws them together is pulled apart
Skins kissed of the same sky, blood bled of the same heart, Michael and Picaso makers of the same
art
is still art

Hands of time join at a meeting as their curtain comes to its drawing
Sad goodbyes are heard by the sound of morning
and daylight robs the sweetness and brings with it a bitter calling

Reminded of the unthinkable, two seeds lay ground under the same tree
The sun beats down unaware of the beauty sheltered beneath
while roots of two seeds intertwine in secrecy

Who can stop what is nature; human to every being
Their world below infected by the sweet humming of the honey bees
above, whispers left as shells, the wind pretends not hear what it really sees

A break through the bed rock, two seeds squeeze fresh fruit
Sprouts of honesty and two blooms freely sway in the truth
You cannot hide them or change it, you cannot deny or act aloof
Acceptance is tragic only to those who fear what was thought could not be moved

Monday, July 26, 2010

Rose Amongst the Thorns ( R.I.P 25-06-2010 Mindight)

How does one begin to describe
A soul so gentle and a lady so wise
She was my basket full of golden sunshine and a pillar of strength,
She set a standard so high

Stood proud like a peacock
Her confidence chased away all my fears and doubt
If you’ve never fallen in love with this woman
Man,
You’ve missed out

Granny, my beautiful, GRAND mother
In your heart I found a home
You welcomed me in and fed me your love,
So that now I am filled to the brim

You were my father when mine had left
I was so lost and without hope
In you, I learned to trust the world
You healed me from inside-out; around my heart you loosened the rope

You gave me a drink of your tenderness
In hard and dry times when I had thirst
You brought me comfort and understanding
So that I could find wisdom in your words

I don’t know what will become of me now
This road will be long and weary
I wish that I could say that I am fine,
But honestly, Granny,
Without you it’s much too heavy


I miss the pet names you would call me
“Nalax” was your favourite one
I miss your sweet voice to greet me in the morning
And your face before the rising sun

We would cuddle around the heater
Watching TV in the middle of winter
And I would listen as you and mommy shared stories
And laugh because Grandpa said re a mo rasetsa

My heart still find itself, waiting, for you to come back home
Even standing here I imagine you in the crowd
So that I don’t have to feel alone
I know you’re in a better place; the Kingdom of God is filled with plenty,
But you left a big gap in my life, Granny,
And in time, maybe one day I won’t feel this empty

You knew me well
And little did people know that I was your number one fan
I know you were too special to stay in this world,
But I wish God let me in on His great plan

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Songs for a Sista [for all the victims who were reminded they were black]

Who will cry for you when you're goneWho will sing your blues or my beautiful song
Who will lift you up when your wings have flown
I don't know
But like Maya Angelou
I know why the caged bird sings
She sings because the white man can't dance
She sings because she cries to the beat of the history of my people's past
Se sings because the white man can't jump
He can't jump the way my spirits jump
He can't jump the way my bootylicious goggles to
oh oh oh oh oh oh no no he can't jump
He can't jump an catch the white stars
Because my B.E.E velvet night is more universal than his imported cars
He can't jump and A-town stomp the Earth
Because his roots don't know what my Mother Africa is worth
His roots aren't as soul(sole) deep as I feel
Because his roots aren't as high as the click of my heels
His roots are not his own
His roots were shipped on a boat and landed on my damn African home!

The white man can't jump

I sing songs for a sista
Who is killed by lethal images of blue eyes and blond hair
I sing songs for a sista
'Cause I take pride and care
But when I sing my songs I'm told it's racist and unfair
Is it racist that after every AMEN we sing praise to a white Jesus
The last time I checked there was neither black nor white
just crucified
Because the Father had His reasons

Is it fair that I always have black written on my crown
Let me tell you
I'm sweet and chocolate to the centre
And all around
I'm not just black, but a caramel brown

What I'm protesting is more than just legal
So you go ahead and call me racist
I know I got my people

Now tell me who will cry for you when you're gone
I don't know
But hey black sista hey
For you
I will sing my songs

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Hiphop is dead (class favourite)

Hiphop is dead 'cause bling has taken over
Who will bring the beat back and ghetto love to street corners
I am a woman of colour and each one of my shades speak the truth
I am a woman of languages, tone and texture
and each one comes from a place where I am a foetus inside Afica's womb
Who gave birth to Virgin Blood and whose cries leak non stop
A place where hearts beat of African drums which they now call 'hiphop'
A place where poetry no longer becomes a gift, but a curse
Where black becomes I
I become it
It becomes beautiful
Yet why does this beauty hurt?
A place where my mother tongue has been commercialised
and sold to the slavery of ignorant minds
But after this you will have officially been poetrized
Video babes selling their 50cenct worth of oodies in Candyshops
Dancing on table tops
But no Brown Sugar, I will not llick the lollipop
So he calls her his bitch and this Anorexia becomes Mindsex
and she starves herself so that he can fit and feel better in-side there
She doesnt come from the body of a man, but the beauty of a woman
I am nobody's long-weaved bitch because
I AM NOT MY HAIR!
I had a conversation with God lastnight in search of Zion
But it's a mess
She told me she can't breast feed religion 'cause there is a lump in her breast
And this spiritual cancer is eating away faster than its kiss of death

Hiphop is dead 'cause bling has taken over

Hiphop is dead 'cause bling has taken over

So who
will bringthe beat back and ghetto love to MY street corner?...

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

I've been asked why I call my blog Love Child and so I figured I might aswell make it clear. It's because of this book I once read by a very well known story teller and poet, and she writes all her stories and childhood memoirs in this book called Love Child. It's vey sad, but very beautifully written. It spoke to me. I'm a love child of the world- I dont really have a place cause I am everyone but I belong to no one. Poetry is my mother, but im not a bastard child to "her". That is why I am a love child cause through the pain, love is born and so through me poetry is created like an endless circle of life...A life filled with love(d) child
ren

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Virgin Blood

Bed stained of Virgin Blood
He is satisfied, his thirst quenched
Sheets wet of Virgin Blood
She is undignified, her body drenched
Tears wept of Virgin Blood
A pool of se(a)men drown her waters and float
Herat bleeds of Virgin Blood
One by one as they f***, I mean
Rock
Her boat

Soul leaks of Virgin Blood
She is not loved, but between her legs
Bed stained of Virgin Blood
Lady of the night, with the man they call bless-ed
Sheets wet of Virgin Blood
Oh heavenly Father
Blessed be her (w)hol(e)y core
Playas play
Polygamy
Men stalk their prey
BUT
Why is she the one called a whore?

'Cause of midnight passions?
Sweet sixteen?
Filled with Baby I love you
Midnight passion it's passed your bedtime
But HIV has no curfew
Minight passion
For n9ne months they charmed and flirt
Midnight baby

Born

into a world of hurt
Midnight mother
Fot the baby she will expose of her breast
Midnight father
Midnight cheating
Midnight beatings
Midnight rests

Midnight rests


Midnight rests

And Virgin Blood
is

dead
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Love is anterior to life
Posterior to death
Initial of creation
And exponent o
f breath
*Emily Dickionson*