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Category: Poetically
The Revelation
a poem for John Coltrane
“To tremble in prayer & trepidation
To tremble against trepidation in prayer
Screech – Scream – Cry
To tremble with prayer
and arch the muscles of my back
in face of trepidation,
transparent beads bubbling from my forehead
Screech – Cry.
Bird of blood with razor-sharp
wings of boiling stone falling from God into my throat
claws my tonsils
sticks its feet way down into my stomach
and I double over trying to vomit
forth this bird
to the rhythms of anklets ashake
in the dance of a black-blue-black blue – black a black blue black African
Witch Doctor wailing wailing –
Scream high out into God.
fall heavily from the pole of light He offers to the snow
of doubt that freezes
all Spirits dancing gallop
to slabs of ice across the tongue.
Father, Father, understands me
Make, Purification, Psalm of Warmth
within Light – understand the reverent
screams of this confused devotee. “
sages of the south
a ribbon of rhythm
if you Love Good music
sound dreams and forgetting
these dreams are not sound
purple hued
flirting with disastrous red
yet they are almost blue
and I often forget
how I got there
their naked truth
apparently
is the result of my nervous conditioning
and there is always a part that’s almost true
sisindwa yisisindo semisindo sizukulwane
sikashwele
Bantwana baka Maye Babo
Sifingqwe ngamasonto
sanikelwa ethala sisathwele
Izishingishane ziheleza kuze kuse
imibiko ifika ize iyophelel’emaweni
ngokweswel’izihlwele …
Ake sithule
Mhlwawumbe USimakade Ozwa konke uyoke Asiphendule
tree
For Bheki Hyacinth Mseleku
i have heard of that tree
hyacinth
ngiyawazi lowo muthi
ngiyayazi nembali yawo
kepha ngisalibele …
ubuhlungu bempilo nobuhlwempu bomphefumulu
kungenze ngafiphala
Sengaba kude nalowo owangitshala …
Rooted
I met an old man in the garden
And he told me
“Asparagacea”!
It is a flower from old glorious Babylon
Well they call her Iraq
these frail and fragile days
yes, beautiful Hyacinth
“Hyacinths are forever if you know what you’r doing …”
Deathless hue
these howlong blues
we are coloured by
history into names
nations, known unknowns
we are galactic beings
caught in the cruel current of the waves of time
and yet
our hearts melodies
our Souls harmonies
are timeless –
boundless energies bursting from the Source
IThongo!!!
Urging us closer
Closer to the Source.
Izibongo Zabathathu
Inkondlo Yamakhosi Amathathu AkwaMaseko
Mvulandlela:
Esikhathini sesomiso
lapho kuvame ukwesaba nentukuthelo
isizukulwane sivukela umbuso
sikhala ngezimfanelo
nombuso usobozela abazukulwane
Ufike wena uhogela ngamakhala amasha
Umoya wezishingishane zasemandulo nakusasa
Wathi lisazonetha
uhlaza luzovama
Uthe isizwe sisazonotha
Kusho wena Vulandlela
Mvelo:
UMdali eluthando
USomandla evumile
Sibone ngawe nkosi encane eyembethe igubo yokukhanya
Ubuhle bakho busikhange ngenkazimulo yesethembiso
Ucwebezela okwamazolo
Ufumbethe izimpawu zenhlanhla ngazombili
Kwavela wena kwadeda ubumnyama lacweba nezulu
Wena omehlo’mbulunga ngokufuza ekhabo Nyoko
Siyashweleza nkosenhle kuvuka kwamaNgcamane
Mvikeli:
UMama wakho wakwetha kuqala
Ungakaveli sakubona ngemisebenzi emihle
Kusengathi uyawazi amandl’akho
Sengathi uzizwela yena izigi zenginyama
Ubukhosi obusha obuyobusa ngothando nangosiba
Ezinye zigabe ngegazi
Wena nguwe oyovikela amasango asemakhosini
Iso lakho liyodedisa izitha ZikaNomkhubulwane
Isandla sakho siyokwelulelwa kwabampofu …
wisened / from quantum physics to what is to be
1.
to and fro
it has been said
forth and back
until other dimensions are created
out of the love dance
out of the many one
out of the one many
2.
the alternative paradigm
is said to shift
who writes the program that sparks the mind
source code for the multiverse
dwelling in the Omniverse
the first inspiration burst
of the one who appeared first
kwelakithi bambiza ngoMvelingqangi
3.
God as King or God as Master
of the Galaxies or of a world?
The Lord of Spirits appeared with a consort
One like Himself Who came from Pure Thought
Manifesting Her Self as Master and Creator
Whose Magic Hands and Wondrous Words
Fashioned the Universe In Her Own Image
For The Love of Koleka
poetic reflection: thaka
ngiyabuvuma ubuthakathaka bami
Kanti futhi nobubi bami ngibubonile
Ngibuthaka ngimubi ngijalo nje
Angiyigqizi qakala inkulumo yabangibandlululayo
ngiyishaya indiva imicibilisho yabangizondayo
eminye sengenze ngayo imbuthuma yomlilo esithangamini lapho sesiyoxoxa khona sidingide umsuka nesisombululo sengxabano yethu …
