POETRY
“When movements have been unable to clear the clouds, it has been the poets who have succeeded in imagining the color of the sky, in rendering the kinds of dreams and futures social movements are capable of producings.” Robin D. G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams
Poetry, in all its forms, is central to the human conditions. The poets are responsible for translating the worlds within us, and the world outside of us, when we cannot find the words ourselves.
Fences of Days Gone By, Walls of Days to Come
Neo Khotlo
My common sense was Katlehong’s broken lens Smug as I watched uTamkhulu and his friends Jest and dig pole size holes for our fence Suddenly
Her
Tshepang Diphaha
I’m usually right in my headBut I pamper you in so many ways I’ve disappeared abruptly,Not because of any malice butBecause my hands