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• Lebogang Mashile: Sisters

  
  flip flopping joy — Authority: 537
  I see the wisdom of eternities in ample thighs belying their presence as adornments to the temples of my sisters old souls breath in the comfort of chocolate thickness that suffocates Africa ’s angels who dance to the rhythm of the universe’s womb though they cannot feel its origins in their veins Blessed am I to ...
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• Cotton Socks

  
  Pofrika — Authority: 511
  I wished wed run the Soweto Marathon togetherjust as we did the 702 Walk.Although I knew you wouldnt comeI still bought two pairs of cotton socksjust as you did last year. ... Afterwards I massaged my feetrubbing in the foot cream you helped buy.Then I lay naked on my bed,the second pair of cotton socks cuddling my ...
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• Mxolisi Nyezwa: Winner of the Thomas Pringle National Award for Poetry, South Africa 2009

  
  Poets Printery — Authority: 114
  The Thomas Pringle National Award for Poetry is given by the English Academy, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. This is the highest award given to a poet of South Africa on alternate years. The award may be compared to the Sahitya Akademi Award given in India. The vision of the English Academy ...
  3 weeks ago

• Motherwell poet wins prestigious Pringle Award

  
  Poets Printery — Authority: 114
  PORT Elizabeth township poet Mxolisi Nyezwa has won the prestigious Thomas Pringle Award for poetry. “I am very grateful for the recognition of my work,” said Nyezwa, who also received an award from Rhodes University this year. The interior of his tidy office in Motherwell, Port Elizabeth contrasts sharply with ...
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• Ben Okri discusses writing

  
  Pofrika — Authority: 511
  __________A poem by Ben OkriWikipedia on Ben Okri
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• Mdantsane Nights

  
  Poets Printery — Authority: 114
  lulama hurries home mdantsane enters a war zone an evening creeping into a shelter of spoken shadows a dying night screams somewhere the last breath snatched without pity happiness now brims in the slaughter of the unforgotten. Poem and Drawing by Amitabh Mitra
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