NDABA SIBANDA - POEMS

Sibanda is the author of Notes, Themes, Things And Other Things, The Gushungo Way, Sleeping Rivers, Love O’clock, The Dead Must Be Sobbing, Football of Fools, Cutting-edge Cache, Of the Saliva and the Tongue, When Inspiration Sings In Silence, The Way Forward, Sometimes Seasons Come With Unseasonal Harvests, As If They Minded:The Loudness Of Whispers, This Cannot Be Happening :Speaking Truth To Power, The Dangers  Of Child Marriages:Billions Of Dollars Lost In Earnings And Human Capital, The Ndaba Jamela and Collections and Poetry Pharmacy.  Sibanda's work has received Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. Some of his work has been translated into Serbian and German.

​Demons Against Demos

​rolling stones from high
giving democracy no sigh

police brutality against blacks
in the US, police brutality in Zim

crushing demos in Zim
instead of crushing demons

criminalizing peaceful protests
caring for the corrupt and cruel


rolling,rolling  stones from hell
hence health institutions are not well

Choked Chalks Flying In The Air

​Teachers threw all their magic marks
Out of the window and went home
Their starved ears had been patient
Only to become lies` dance-floor
They were the uncarpeted base
In a nightclub of famine and fools
They trooped out , unprepared 
And unable to dance to the disco
Of peanuts and pauperisation
Fibs were played as an addition
To the dancing of folly and failings
Their restaurant reserved for none
But hunger, helplessness & hardships

Iconography

​pursuing peace
in his topography

on the wall
a painting of a dove

and an image of a lamb
in a landscape of depth