NDABA SIBANDA - LET US TALK AND WALK WRITING DIFFERENT TYPES OF SENTENCES

​A 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee, Ndaba`s poems have been widely anthologised. Sibanda is the author of The Gushungo Way, Sleeping Rivers, Love O’clock, The Dead Must Be Sobbing, Football of Fools, Cutting-edge Cache: Unsympathetic Untruth, Of the Saliva and the Tongue, When Inspiration Sings In Silence and Poetry Pharmacy. His work is featured in The Anthology House, in The New Shoots Anthology, and in The Van Gogh Anthology, and A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Poetic Intersections. Some of Ndaba`s works are found or forthcoming in  Page & Spine,  Peeking Cat, Piker Press , SCARLET LEAF REVIEW , Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the Pangolin Review, Kalahari Review ,Botsotso, The Ofi Press Magazine, Hawaii Pacific Review, Deltona Howl, The song is, Indian Review, Eunoia Review, JONAH magazine, Saraba Magazine, Poetry Potion, Saraba Magazine,  The Borfski Press, Snippets, East Coast Literary Review, Random Poem Tree, festival-of-language and Whispering Prairie Press. 

Sibanda`s forthcoming book Notes, Themes, Things And Other Things: Confronting Controversies ,Contradictions And Indoctrinations   was considered for The 2019 Restless Book Prize for New Immigrant Writing in Nonfiction. Ndaba`s other forthcoming book Cabinet Meetings: Of Big And Small Preys was considered for The Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2018.
Sibanda`s other forthcoming books include Timbomb, Dear Dawn And Daylight, Sometimes Seasons Come With Unseasonal Harvests, A Different Ballgame and The Way Forward. 
Ndaba blogs here: Let`s Get Cracking! – Ndaba Sibanda - WordPress.com

Let Us Talk And Walk Writing Different Types Of Sentences ​

​1. Declarative Sentences
My cat carries an unknown blue rag around in her mouth and throws it into a bowl of fresh milk.  She likes taking and flaunting objects on walks around the house and yard. She eats her food by taking it out of the bowl with her paw, and putting it either on my unimpressed foot or on the innocent carpet. The good thing perhaps is that she gifts me an assortment of things, including live locusts, praying mantises and wriggling worms. She does not chew them. She wraps her paws around my wondering leg too.              
  
2. Interrogative Sentences  
How does it feel, after carrying unknown rags into the house, and flinging them into bowls of milk? What type of cat would take and flaunt objects in front of its owner, the TV, the mirror, the sofa and literally everything else in the house? Would that cat sleep soundly and blissfully after committing such crimes?  Where`s decency there? Who does she think she is---a boss of sorts? Why doesn’t she eat her food from the bowl? Is that too much to ask? When does she clean the carpet?  Why does her friend seem to be impressed with and enamored of all these antics? 

3. Imperative Sentences 
Little cat, your cat friend marveled at you when you carried a blue rag, as if saying, have fun dear friend! Well, well-wishing you! Come to my place and take some more rags! What an invitation! My instruction is: refrain from bringing foreign objects into my house, including your friend! I command you not to ever again gift me scary live locusts, praying mantis and worms! Stop forthwith! Ok, maybe I`ve sounded too harsh—please don’t give me such scary gifts. My request is: please don’t chase away your friend! He seems to adore you from heaven to earth and back. You`re fortunate. He probably gives you gifts of cloths and all.  That`s my humble and harmless observation. 

4. Exclamatory Sentences
What do you think you`re doing?! Taking me on a tour of the house, carrying strange rags?  Goodness Gracious, you`re sneaky and accumulative! Hey there`s no more space for your objects in my house! I can`t believe that your friend thinks you`re the smartest and cutest cat around!  No wonder he likes purring, chewing his tongue and sucking his nipples! I bet my last dollar, no hair will grow there! Let me park it here! Oh, already you`re walking away with your friend, paw-in paw! The cozy twosome, have a good hangout! I`ll miss you! Actually, already missing you! After eating out, you`re free to come back and burp in my face as usual!!