Emmanuel Phakathi: Poems

55 · Feb 2022

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Emmanuel Phakathi Feb 2022

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no need to be a Jesuit
just be a conduit
let faith flow through
for not all labels are true.

54 · Jan 2022

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Emmanuel Phakathi Jan 2022

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Feel with me
I am the feel good squad
Come, join this feel good squad
smile with me.
chase those everyday blues away
a wink, 😉 a smile ☺ and a hop
Hoooray it's our birthday everyday.

53 · Jan 2020

I am Zulu

Emmanuel Phakathi Jan 2020

I am Zulu

Black.
Black.
How many times
black.
Black
only cause there's
white.
So
I am not
black.
I am zulu.
Keep your
black.
I am far from
blank.

53 · Jan 2020

red kind of blue love

Emmanuel Phakathi Jan 2020

red kind of blue love

better this
way
than any other
way
ready for love
again

lovers lost
love renewed

bitter
this way
than any other way.
battered I left

new love
red love
love for failed climbers.