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Poems in Sotho by:
Isabella Motadinyane
- South Africa
WORK SHIRE
(Work Shire)
COME PEOPLE
(TLONG BESO)
HUSH BABE
(HOSHE NGWANA)
RED HELMET
(TLOPO KGUBEDU)
RIBBON HANDS
(RIBBON HANDS)
POEM
The flight of the crane
The flight of the cranecrosses a sky of …
POEM
THE VISITOR
Does no dishes, dribbles sauce across the floor. Is more dragon than spaniel, more …
POEM
ENVY
Icarus imitated the golden plover,Drawn toward a blue follyAbove, looping through …
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ROOKS OVER AVEBURY
There must have been a score of them, all lift-and-dip-and-fluster, beak and …
POEM
SHARKS' TEETH
Everything contains some silence. Noise getsits zest from thesmall …
POEM
ARRIVAL AT SANTOS
Here is a coast; here is a harbor; here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some …
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