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Poems in Ndebele by:
Gudugwe Mlilo
- Zimbabwe
WE WILL FIGHT THE WAR
(Sizoyilwa)
THE CALVES ARE EVERYWHERE
(Ahelile amankonyana)
Ndebele Praise Poetry
- Zimbabwe
THE PRAISES OF LOBENGULA SON OF MZILIKAZI SON OF MATSHOBANA
(Izibongo Zika Lobengula KaMzilikazi KaMatshobana)
THE PRAISES OF MZILIKAZI, THE SON OF MATSHOBANA
(Izibongo ZikaMzilikazi KaMatshobana)
Eventhough Ndlovu
- Zimbabwe
WE COME FROM AFAR
(Sivela kude)
Dion Nkomo
- Zimbabwe
ROBBERS
(Abaphangi)
MY CITIZENRY
(Ubuzwe bami)
DAWN OF CIVILIZATION
(Ilanga lempucuko)
Albert Nyathi
- Zimbabwe
GOSSIP
(NOZINDABA)
WHERE IS KING MZILIKAZI?
(IPHI INKOSI U MZILIKAZI)
WHAT HAS GONE WRONG?
(Kutheni)
Tsotso magazine
- Zimbabwe
LIZE LIFIKE
(Lize Lifike)
NOMBEKO
(NOMBEKO)
MTHAKATHI WEZIGODO
(Mthakathi Wezigodo)
UTHANDO
(UTHANDO)
Jerry Zondo
- Zimbabwe
"WE CANNOT PULL DOWN OUR SHACKS"
("Asingeke siyidilize imikhukhu yethu")
FROM ... TO ...
(Kusukela ... kusiya ...)
THE SEARCH: 1997
(Isicwaningo; ngo1977)
POEM
THE HABITUDE OF THE EYES 34
I am the rain that quenches the earth’s thirst, a pregnant gift, no …
POEM
THE CITY IS DESIGNED VERY WELL
The city is designed very well. Moving about is easy even for someone like me …
POEM
Still too tired not to be still
Still too tired not to be still you come and sit for a vigor not knowing how to be …
POEM
GOODBYE MY TWENTIETH CENTURY (I)
A forest, evolving blue inside the dream. There is where I used to go as a …
POEM
ROOKS OVER AVEBURY
There must have been a score of them, all lift-and-dip-and-fluster, beak and …
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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