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Mandla Wa'Ntima Mar 2022
White Paper cups,
Brown liquor,
Late night conversations
and early Sunday ***;
Perfection is what we say it is.

While The Day Away,
Dance The Night Away,
Make A Wish Upon A Star,
This Time, I Hope You'll Stay.
Mandla Wa'Ntima Dec 2020
The poet is a master deceiver
And a hopeless optimist.
Searching far and wide,
Reaching beyond what the oceans
Have to offer

To find glowing words
To string together,
Forge a beautiful sentence:
A stanza. a passage. a poem

Describing the most deepest of pains
In elegant, haute words
Potent enough to ****** strong Samson,
And deceive wise Solomon.

I know not whether he knows it,
But the winemaker is not impervious
To the effect of wine.
Perhaps -like us all he - too, is deceived
Mandla Wa'Ntima Nov 2020
We all die in the end
Mandla Wa'Ntima Nov 2020
As long as the sun still stubbornly
rises from the ashes -
day after day, dragging herself
across the wide and unforgiving sky,
yearning to meet her lover at the horizon,
only to bleed herself empty of the gold in her
in the final moments,
so will we keep rising and falling...
rising and falling...
For what we know to be true
Mandla Wa'Ntima Aug 2020
Children playing in the open field,
Aloof, a mother lovingly watches on
My dreams fulfilled
Mandla Wa'Ntima Aug 2020
Young Love Is Neither Bold Nor Sweet - It Just Is!
It Hasn't Been Tainted By Past Experiences
And Neither Does It Know Pain
Mandla Wa'Ntima Aug 2020
"Ah, Love", he said
Clenching His Fist In The Air
As If To Stop The Sun
From Reaching The Horizon.

"Love Is A Tragedy"
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