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Shona Marshall
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Shona
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Shona
15/F    Im not much of a writer but I have learned that when I come on here and write about how I feel it makes my ...

Poems

joel jokonia Oct 2017
NETSAI
plainly described by her name
chi tai tai
a light in thick darkness

NETSAI
if i love you would you change
pamwe nhai
maybe you not tasted love yet
i fear your desires
fearless desires
will and shall get you hurt
scared for an eternity, let
me love you

NETSAI
i know all your shananigans
but i still bother myself with you
i do, its a plainly true
that love is blind

but even now a century has died
i still wait
after your shine has been ******, out
i wait
netsai
can you not see
     'ndokunetsa nokuti ndokuda'
Netsai a shona name for girls mostly
Netsa(means) - bother
Netsai - bothering
'ndokunetsa nokuti ndokuda' means -i bother you because i love you
pamwe nhai- maybe
chi tai tai - fire fly
"firefly
a light in thick darkness"
david mungoshi Oct 2015
jinga, jinga my sister
it's a true- vex world
jinga my sister
nothing makes sense
jinga my sister
it's a shake-your-head fix
where we're headed
i don't know jinga
oh the aches in my heart
jinga my little sister
what a drag it is
feeling so helpless
watching you get mauled
by the drooling wolves of suburbia
oh jinga i'm hurting inside
but time sometimes does wait
so show them jinga
a daughter saving a nation
Inspired by the lyrics of 'Jinga' a song done by Biggie Tembo one-time frontman of Zimbabwe's inimitable jit jive outfit, The Bundu Boys. He did this song as part of an album called 'Out of Africa' done with The Ocean City Band. Biggie was singing about bewilderment in a world that was changing too much for his liking. One day they found him dead hanging from the beam in a psychiatric ward. Ooh Biggie!