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232 · Apr 2019
Prince Lore
Kabelo Maverick Apr 2019
I’m not a poet
I don’t write poetry
I’m a silhouette
I don’t like poverty

I’m a Black Freedom Writer
A poor man’s dream
I take back the kingdom
like a fighter from
the sewer mainstream

I’ve been tryin’
to tell them since dawn,
I’m a seed residing
from Heaven,
Prince Lore.
Maverick
230 · Feb 2019
"Miseducation"
Kabelo Maverick Feb 2019
“a bet?
the Word
VERSUS
the World…
and yet,
the World
VERSES
the Word.”
MVRK
227 · Jun 2019
I
Kabelo Maverick Jun 2019
I
I cried over spilled milk
I tried clover as a pill, nil
I died over a sealed guilt
game over…I had my fill?

Then came Jehovah, Killed Bill!
Soul proprietor
mvr©k
227 · Jul 2020
Bona Fide
Kabelo Maverick Jul 2020
"Born to fight
for what’s right…
No matter the plight,
No matter the height
Bona fide, coz I keep
it in plain sight…
like a Cartesian
plane kite
…"
Maveri©k
226 · Feb 2018
Content
Kabelo Maverick Feb 2018
Like a celebration of nothingness
A kiss of *** for the numbness
A serenading of something else
We miss the drum, but nonetheless…
KingMaverick©
225 · Jun 2019
Invisible Crown
Kabelo Maverick Jun 2019
"Humpty
Dumpty cracks
and the topsy-turvy
laughs…

I bow to the humps
and bumpy
Past

coz’ now, the
top is lonely
for the
Best
!"
Maveri©k
224 · Jun 2019
P.E.A.C.E.
Kabelo Maverick Jun 2019
"Pursue.Equality.And.Construe.Equanimity."
Maverick
222 · Oct 2018
history
Kabelo Maverick Oct 2018
never mind the façade,
everything soon comes full circle.
Metamorphosis,
all this vanity fair
will exhaust the sweetness,
and the Child will
cry for the Mother once again


holdfast, this too shall pass.
mvrk©
221 · Jul 2019
Cloud 9.
Kabelo Maverick Jul 2019
Words that
conjure up
out of thin air,
now, we’re
magicians
but tomorrow,
We’ll be
gods
!!!

a Cloud
engulfed in
purple haze,
a Gods’ puff
to the pearly
gates


Cloud 9.
MVR©K
a "Fawn" inspiration
218 · Aug 2018
Hope in progress...
Kabelo Maverick Aug 2018
“…The World
blinded to my feat
my Achievements are
something only the
Heavens can see,
too dope to settle,
too much hope
to handle
…”
Maverick
214 · Feb 2018
Unseen
Kabelo Maverick Feb 2018
Faith for the bathing ape
Case of caging the ape
I heard they even have it on tape
It hurts...this evil habit of ****
forget God, all I wanna do is escape
I get a job from a Man holding a banner, wearing a cape
He asks, “do you believe in faith?”
I’m masked, *“…do you see my face??”
KingMaverick©
214 · Oct 2018
Nah.
Kabelo Maverick Oct 2018
Weather is squeezing 365
Matters of squealing deep inside
The future is precarious…
as usual, we’re precocious
Simon says God is dead,
but the sign says, “God ahead
Screens got us facing down more,
It seems we're prostrating
to the “ground floor”…

Nah.
Maverick©
213 · Mar 2018
Enigma
Kabelo Maverick Mar 2018
Poignancy of nature drawing in
Man, Fish or Herbivore
The point they can’t see
Of a stranger crawling in:  
San, ***** or Holy War…?
Metamorphosis explodes
better transform back
Matter emphasis exposed…
The latter transforms, Black!!
KM©
211 · Jun 2018
...My 2 cent$ worth...
Kabelo Maverick Jun 2018
"…Your character, demeanour,
How you project or articulate yourself
Could be just a figment of your imagination.
It’s really in the authenticity of your Spirit
(Indians/Buddhism call it Mahayana/Nirvana)
that gives the canvas substance
which inevitably(…God-willing) becomes
what we call today, REAL
even if it WASN’T from the inception (evolution).
Therefore, if you’re not authentic (Real)
Nothing is…you see with your Brain, so
If you’re not true to yourself or you’re
not manifesting what truly resides
within you. Then you’re NOT BORN YET
You’re as good as null and void…”

I should call this one REALIING(Realing 2)
Maverick Notes
209 · Jan 2018
L.O.V.E.
Kabelo Maverick Jan 2018
"Let.Others.Value.Equally."
Mvrk.
209 · Jan 2019
Untitled
Kabelo Maverick Jan 2019
"...timeless
like a heartbeat,
silence like
a calm beast
..."
MVRK
205 · Jul 2019
Black Ball 8
Kabelo Maverick Jul 2019
I’m fate,
number 8 on Earth…
I’m afraid, my day of birth
is bait to put you to slumber,
hate the curse…

Imagine, the hole
is infinity...
did I mention,
the Holy Trinity?
tension is only
in Sin City

They lied,
it can never be over,
it’s in the eye of
the beholder

Win or lose,
they don’t believe
in forever

Blowin’ in the wind
or loose screws
,
so they’re deceiving
for pleasure

Jump into the pool
The water is not too cold
Just don’t be the fool
Be immortal or
you’ll fold!
mvr©k
204 · Feb 2018
Passé
Kabelo Maverick Feb 2018
Impasse is prompt of vision
In case, you thought of a mission…
In fact, call it conviction
Impress the court of diction
Impact the fraud and *fiction
KM©
201 · Mar 2018
Comes with the Territory
Kabelo Maverick Mar 2018
Misunderstood like an opal
I come back to the hood hopeful
Maverick’s too good and boastful,
pushing up this death cloud with my shoulders
wish you could hear how my breath sounds, my soldiers
Crying rain tears, I’m the weatherman or perhaps
the gravity and reality of loss also. Trying to prevail fear for the
Betterment of this perplexed hypocrisy and vanity of course,
Not So?
Highlight©
200 · Jun 2019
The X-Files
Kabelo Maverick Jun 2019
Think like a Therapist, Ink like an Exorcist…
Soul Proprietor
MVRK
Kabelo Maverick Mar 2018
Street omnipotence, tough
Only the heart can heed its importance enough
There you had Glory, a King named Lesane
The Story of a stick up kid, famed insane…

You reminded me of my Weaknesses
Unapologetically bold, not afraid whether
Or not people witnessed it.
Even though the family resented you
I always knew the Man in me cemented you
The stain to a modern graffiti
The pain of the fallen, the needy...

Your radiant Smile numbs, really
It’s what I call Loyalty.
I’ll be patient like the river Nile
to see You, Moms and Vivi,
until my roll call to Royalty

Love.
Highlight©
193 · Aug 2019
Burden II
Kabelo Maverick Aug 2019
Curse, or is it reaping
the debt of my Father’s sins?
lost in the lurch, beeping left
on my Mother’s things. I heard
they’re dreaming theft, but I believe
it’s death. Here lies another king…
The stakes are flames, arrays of desire
an inexplicable functuay of light and pain…
I take the blame for playing with fire,
in this despicable display of
my plight again.
Maveri©k
Kabelo Maverick Jun 2018
our biggest FAILURE yet, amongst all our grand designs and revolutions so forth, POVERTY. And it should be a SIN to think otherwise. In fact, to even utter the word “progress” should not be admissible to the tongue. Yes, technology has broken ground in the lines of industrial communication and data. And in digitalizing the Global front, but still fails dismally in sweeping the dust off the FLOOR, in layman's (lament) terms …the dusty faces of the POOR. Why is the World so keen in ostracising poverty as a human problem??? How can we be proud and call ourselves Inventers and architects of paradigms like the Food Chain, deriving History and experimenting the destiny of bloodlines from the sweat and adversity of the disadvantaged or non-privileged?? It’s so dehumanizing, no wonder God has no voice.  That’s why the world can never progress into the Future, coz we actually obsess in this perpetual vicious cycle like a possessive toy we can’t get enough of. It’s now become an unnatural part of this so-called human development and we’ve condoned it for so long, if anything it’s become bliss…IGNORANCE IS BLISS, right?

That’s why some of us are so absorbed by insurrection, we call ourselves REBELS…Because we don’t fall for the “Okey Dokey”, the “PINK is the new black, so let me be gay” propaganda. We don’t sell out the poor, WE DON’T HAVE TIME FOR A PINK WORLD, WE ONLY HAVE TIME FOR A “THINK” WORLD,

PRECISELY BECAUSE WE HAVE AN OBNOXIOUS CANINE SENSE OF LOYALTY TO THE POOR…FEEL ME
Maverick
190 · Aug 2017
Gravity of Gandhi
Kabelo Maverick Aug 2017
I love Gandhi like gravity
No matter how much I elevate
He always reminds me
to kiss the floor

...And remember God...

Real talk, I don’t fully stand behind
Passive Resistance
because sometimes it takes a monster to defeat a monster…
I’m a student of my own school of thought
and I’m timid to the limit
of what I would do for the things I love…
If push comes to shove, there’s no telling
the reflex trigger of my index finger...
But my spirit resonates to that of Gandhi


*"There are people in the world
so hungry that God cannot
appear to them except
in the form of Bread."
-Mahatma Gandhi
mvrk.
188 · Jul 2018
Thyme
Kabelo Maverick Jul 2018
Maturing
like fine wine
I’m sorry for being
blind at times...
I can’t lie


Nurturing
this fine line
I only see rhymes
in my eye
I can’t die

Bluen©te
186 · May 2018
Strange pull
Kabelo Maverick May 2018
Married to Pandora,
boxed and enslaved to the paradox
Mary or the dollar? Lost but engaged
to beat the paragons

Crushed ginger and
garlic to crush the gingivitis
Touched sinner like a gothic grunge,
Sometimes I wonder if I have
the genes to fight this…

Love no longer Earthling,
but now lingers on Earthing
Give the flame selflessly,
and forgive the same passionately

Great fall snap,
pressure height in the ****,
true phobia
Embrace the call trap,
inertia tight hither
…but euphoria…!
MVRK
182 · Mar 2018
Dead Ahead
Kabelo Maverick Mar 2018
All my friends are dead
All my fans are red
All the rands are bled
All amends are dread
All my trends are read…

All my plans ahead.
Highlight©
178 · Feb 2018
Harmony
Kabelo Maverick Feb 2018
The stairs to this tower…
I climb like playing the cords of harmony
Stare at this power of rhyme,
like the pain and thought
between my Mom and me

a Drop of a coin and it’s hard to bring
I’m a drop of the soil with a Heart made of string
No Musician, no Entertainer…
Life’s not wrapped in ribbons
Just precision, no ignoramus lines rapped
Good riddance!
KingMaverick©
178 · Mar 2018
The future is tonight
Kabelo Maverick Mar 2018
The future is too bright
The feature is too right
The humour is futile
The rumour, it’s tonight...

The puma is too quite
The butcher too, dies
Pusher, phanda, two dice?

I will come like a thief in the night!
KM©
177 · Mar 2018
Bathtism
Kabelo Maverick Mar 2018
Every time I take a bath,
It’s baptism
Every time I prevail this
Math called fascism
I pray more, now that I’m alone...
Atone more for what I say
now that I’m a Stone.
KM©
175 · Feb 2019
Polarization
Kabelo Maverick Feb 2019
In a nutshell,
I’m not a circle
but speed humps ahead
That’s hell…
and it’s not a hurdle
I’m seeking to
jump again
MVRK
175 · Mar 2019
Formless
Kabelo Maverick Mar 2019
so fair
and transparent,
you’d swear,
it’s transcendent

Maverick
175 · Jul 2018
Caged Birds
Kabelo Maverick Jul 2018
Caged birds
Stopped singing...
Changed fur
and stopped swinging
Gates pearled
the clock’s ticking

The page turned
the flock’s winging...
Bluen©te
MVRK
174 · Nov 2017
Scarface' Song
Kabelo Maverick Nov 2017
"...Despair is not beyond Repair..."
mvrk©
173 · Jul 2019
Life Crossed My Mind
Kabelo Maverick Jul 2019
I took a "pass" on life,
so I could graduate in Heaven
Moved the mess on file,
so pride congratulates the Brethren
Took a path and thrived,
no lie could emulate
the pattern

Or the weapon,
look past the knife
it only insinuates what happens…
When you amass or fly…
Moving towards
"Day Seven"
mvr©k
173 · May 2019
Light
Kabelo Maverick May 2019
Bless
the darkness
that lets the
Light come
through…
Yes, the Artist
that never
loses sight of
what’s
True
!
Maverick
173 · Aug 2019
Burden I
Kabelo Maverick Aug 2019
Burdens of the flesh
Burning of the cash
Virgins of the past
Versions of the hags
Curtains when I pass
Searching for finesse
Church is when I rest
Burden is my path
Maveri©k
172 · Oct 2017
F.E.A.R.
Kabelo Maverick Oct 2017
"FOREVER.ENDING.AFRAID.REGRETFULLY."
mvrk©
Kabelo.Maverick©South Africa.Pretoria
171 · Dec 2017
Tenacity
Kabelo Maverick Dec 2017
It sure gets better…
Looking back to what I needed to triumph,
All the perils I needed to thrive…
All the devils I needed to regurgitate
Looking for solace in ****** tunnels
…kneeling to reach the pearly gates…

*Like that stick up kid early or late on the corner,
barely afraid…It’s time to Conquer…
mvrk ©
166 · Oct 2017
I hardly cry.
Kabelo Maverick Oct 2017
I hardly cry
I hardly lie
I hardly sigh
I’m the coming sign

I’m hardly shy
My hearting shine
in this humbling shrine,
is becoming bright

…Really
I hardly try now
I hardly pry now
I’m hardly blind now
And it’s easy…

*Coz’ I hardly die now.
mvrk©
inspired by a "crossing friend".
164 · Mar 2018
the floor
Kabelo Maverick Mar 2018
A hungry Lion,
makes an angry Zion
fear God’s Iron
like the bed you lie on
The struggle we pray on
is the trouble we crayon
Now, we call each other dude
Forgot our chores, to clean
Our Mother’s stoep
…and then you wonder why
you miss the Door?
‘Coz you blunder and
forget to kiss the floor
KingMaverick©thefloor
164 · Aug 2020
Limited Edition
Kabelo Maverick Aug 2020
they’ve tried
to vilify me…
****t, tried to
lobotomize me
.
They tried to
victimize me,
still, I rise from
the bottom
wisely

Maveri©k
163 · Jul 2019
Melancholy
Kabelo Maverick Jul 2019
"Art is not in crisis,
Art is where Christ is…

Mandatory
Art is like Isis,
that’s where the Light is…

Melan story
He(art) is not just typing this,
Heart is just what Time is...
"
MVR©K
Kabelo Maverick Nov 2017
“When I saw the fear’s nest
burning on my Chess,
I knew I was the Best…!!!”
mvrk ©
162 · Aug 2020
“Write or Die”
Kabelo Maverick Aug 2020
I always thought I
would turn into
my word, when I die.
But, I found a way to
turn my sword
into a pen, alive

MVR©K
(Matthew 26, 26:52): "Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."
162 · Aug 2020
Respiration
Kabelo Maverick Aug 2020
“Trees to lungs are
like needs to wants,
an Organic Sun
to this plastic we
ought to shun…”
Maveri©k
162 · Jun 2020
Resolve
Kabelo Maverick Jun 2020
"Permeate
my age with
Sage and
never change…
Deviate my
rage with
the page
to shatter
chains
!"
Maveri©k
158 · Apr 2018
Surreal
Kabelo Maverick Apr 2018
Mazes, jigsaw puzzles
Perils of snakes and ladders
Amazing, as I jinx all troubles
and devils with the sage of my letters
Eat dust or catch the gingerbread man
Jesus made me a catch, fisher of dead men
A kaleidoscope life rippling to a point of decipherment
Climb the *****, thrive flipping like the poise of Spiderman
No special case, just immortal and complex
So essential, this trait of my moral compass
MVRK
156 · Mar 2019
Kings
Kabelo Maverick Mar 2019
“The things we prevail,
discern in offense
just to be Kings again,
and return to innocence.”
Maverick
153 · Apr 2018
GRADUATION
Kabelo Maverick Apr 2018
Maverick to Highlight
Imagine, parallel to the skyline
Did I mention? The plan propels to the sunshine…
Ethnic to Sapphire, the frantic mends
Magic like Satire, the tragic ends
MVRK
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