Haiku muchiShona
Haiku rudzi rwekudetemba muChiJapani. Mitemo yacho yehaiku [kuhaika] muChiJapani yakaoma asi vanyori vemimwe mitauro yakaita seChiHingirishi vari kutamba nemanyorerwo ehaiku nenzira dzino pindirana nemitauro yavo.
Inonyorwa iri mitsetse mitatu chete. Chimwewo ndechekuti zvinotoda kuti pave nongedzo yemwaka. Read more
I pray
I pray for death’s cold finger
To touch the shallow shells of my master’s frame
Not entirely so that he may linger
And share in my immortal shame
An experience so unkind
That fatality appears as a sweet release. Read more
Pamusoroi vanhu wee !
Pamusoroi vanhu wee !
Nhungamidzo
1
Pamusoroi vanhu wee
Toda kusvitsa maoko
Kuvakuru kumusoro
Nekuvadiki, ndivo nhaka
Nevakombi, ndine mhaka !
2
Ndipei nzeve vanhu wee
Imi vari pano nhasi
Nevari pasi, unjere ndipei
Nevari nzvimbo dzakatsarukana
doda kutongesa nekupangana Read more
Some things are never easy
Gone
I wake up with a start… my poem is gone
I grapple with under-blankets
Shake the spring bed
Sounds of strained wires
Irritate my half-slumbered mind
I search for a word
A title to begin with
I search for a rhyme
That like a drum beat
Spread its echoes in my dream
The sheets reek of broken dreams
Scattered from the pillows to my toes Read more
House of Hunger Poetry Slam
THE ‘FEEL-GOOD’ POETRY SLAM
The Book Café, Harare, Zimbabwe
Sat 01 Nov 2008, 2-5pm
Harare’s Book Café will be blazing hot on Saturday 01 November with the monthly ‘House of Hunger Poetry Slam’ from 2-5pm, giving poets a platform to express themselves freely and explicitly through the spoken word.
The theme for November is ‘Giving each other a boost’ – poetry that feels good and leaves the listener with renewed energy to embrace each day, despite the mad man-made challenges Zimbabweans are facing as a people. “Life is tough, times are terribly hard and we need to give each other a boost; to celebrate the love and strength we give to each other in our daily lives,” said Mandla Ncube, project officer for Pamberi Trust which hosts the slam. Read more
I want to live
I woke up this morning and decided it would be the last
I will control my destiny and make my wishes come true fast
Hold my hand so I can take you there,
And together we’ll get to share eternal bliss,
And smile too, something we’d began to sorely miss,
No more tears for me and you to shed,
Ecstatic that we will both wake up dead
