NDABA SIBANDA - POEMS

Ndaba has contributed to the following anthologies: Its Time, Poems For Haiti- a South African anthology, Snippets ,Voices For Peace and Black Communion. Heedited  Free Fall (2017). The recipient of a Starry Night ART School scholarship in 2015, Sibanda is the author of Love O’clock, The Dead Must Be Sobbing,Of the Saliva  and the Tongue, Cutting-edge Cache: Unsympathetic Untruth and Football of Fools. His work is featured in The New Shoots Anthology,The Van Gogh Anthology edited by Catfish McDaris and Dr. Marc Pietrzykowski, Eternal Snow, A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma scheduled for publication in Spring/Summer 2017 by Nirala Press and Seeing Beyond the Surface Volume II. Sibanda has contributed to more than thirty published books.
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​On The Verge Of Saying It

she wasn’t in the mood to debate
perhaps he should have been a celibate
 
in her humblest of opinions he was delinquent
how could he only use his mind when it was convenient?
 
didn’t he know he had to have complete dominion over his mind?
at all times she wondered whether his head wasn’t full of wind?
 
if she hadn’t  authority over her mouth she would have said it!
but his rash actions were fast pushing her to say what was right
 
didn’t  an African proverb admonish  those who didn’t have brakes?
talk of dominion and control and authority over mind-and -mouth leaks!

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​What He Told Her

She received an anonymous call
It was quick and to the point too
Treat him well, give him tenderness
​He deserves it like daily prescriptions  

​Persecuted For Justice

Did you hear of the peaceful activists who were stalked
and captured and arrested fast?
Did you?
When will we have a true dawn of democracy and justice?
Reconciliation?
I ask you
How is it born under such skewed and unjust conditions?
Maybe abortion
Why is it a crime to exercise one`s constitutional right
to demonstrate against infamous butchers of  innocent souls?
Why?
Is it because the infamous slayers trivialise the lives of others?
Of the butchered victims’ relatives too?
Not to mention the authorities’ glaring disrespect for justice!   
Is it because the powerful slaughters seek to sweep
them under the rug?
I mean are they are so mighty and mean that they want to bury
their evil atrocities too?
How?
Did you hear their sanctimonious calls?
Do the dead forget and forgive?
How? 
In their shallow graves?
Atrocities
Who is honestly taking responsibility for them in the first place?
The arrests
Did you see the highhandedness and swiftness of the authorities?
Did you?
If the economic woes were being dealt with that rapidity--
would we still be stuck with liquidity problems as a country?
I ask 
Is cash readily available now?
Tell me
Why can`t the authorities arrest the economic challenges--
not the innocent activists?
Atrocities
As long as they are not properly addressed do you think
these will stop peeping and weeping from under the carpet?
Tell me
Atrocities
Atrocities
Atrocities are not the poor victims` stupidities
So can they be wished away just like that?  ​