Ndaba Sibanda`s work has been featured in several publications including The Piker Press, Bricolage, The Dying Goose, Whispering Prairie Press, Saraba Jim, Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine ,The Metric, Unlikely Stories and Silver Birch Press. Invitation For Confiscation the nakedness of a bag of lies is clothed in a shifty sea of hollowness and leakiness those who always seek to act unimpeded in search of the curtailment of other souls` rights forfeit their right to be respected Rising To The Challenges Of Today History is a story of now, a story of today’s activities that becomes a story of the past. History is not only a story of sorrow, but a carefully-crafted story of tomorrow-- a story of what to initiate, swallow or follow. History is a drawing shaped by people’s decisions and actions-- usually bold, boring but big and beautiful. History is a victim’s fight to claim a future, it is an aggrieved people’s stride to a destiny through a clearly defined collective and active voice. History is yesterday’s atmospheric pressure playing out through today’s barometers of life. History is more than a story—it is an awakening. History is not a passive past, but a present progressive response to the challenges of today and tomorrow. It is our upset tummies crying out day and night for nothing short of the detoxification and protection of our bodies from yesterday and today’s abdicables. History is you and I doing something about our present and future situations, making life-changing decisions and actions. Therefore, be brave, be ready because history is certainly coming for and counting on you. Today’s actions are tomorrow’s light or shadow. What She Said From a mere village girl Who was raped by a man-- Dudu is an international icon I was listening to her She did not say that People are saying things She did not discuss Her love life at all either People are saying things She said she will enhance Africa’s voice against Those who abuse others In the name of love She said what sat high On her agenda was justice What is this story about Her being saucy and weird And dating low little men? Yes she said she will step On the big testicles of men Who abuse vulnerable women Does that make her saucy or weird? Who says the castration of wild bulls Is a bad idea in a world that needs no beasts? Unswayed Folly a tortoise has a clownish tendency of farting and urinating and sleeping and defecating on the heads of those who keep it for whatever reason when people lie and claim they’re unable to be affected by dung and damage or unaffected by bigotry or untouched by suffocating odor or immune to indecency or impervious to thuggery then all this begets a big question: are they real? Blustery Tendencies
the author was deaf to the sound of cyberbullying from the authorities, from the corridors of power and fear, the forces of terror were on a mission to crack down on the voices of reason, voices of choice, dissenting and alternative
2 Comments
8/30/2017 07:07:24 pm
I love your poems especially that "Unswayed Folly". Your ink is good Sir.
Reply
Ndaba Sibanda
10/30/2017 05:10:39 pm
Thank you Francis.
Reply
Leave a Reply. |
ArchivesCategories
All
|