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Civilisation
(Poetry)
30-11-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
It is difficult to be exact about the day,
the exact day when civilisation ended,
the day we stopped being members
of communities that respected, even cared
about each other and the precious world.
It was not the day that awful, bossy woman*...
Flowers
(Poetry)
8-06-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
Growing,
Orchids blooming, unfolding,
Rooted to my mind,
Author of words inviting,
Nourish flow so refined.
Reading,
Admiring his Eden,
Hearing his words from text,
I long to smell new flowers.
Meadows, of what will arise next.
Justice
(Poetry)
12-06-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
Justice, justice, justice!
Where art thou? ye Stewarth?
Justice is the very warmth of an inn,
When interred from the bitter slippery, frosty storm.
Justice is the norm.
It's illusive to the door, like a very fastened door,
Cannot...
Lacking the Joy for war
(Poetry)
21-06-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
Without a wish
Without a will
I stood upon a silent hill
I looked up at the evening sky
Pink, blue and violet was its die
The setting sun, still watching me
Playing the role of a huge eye.
Mountains shot straight up high, and...
Leaky Sink
(Poetry)
21-06-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
A pale pearl drop
collecting at the tip,
sliding smoothly,
slightly,
curving carefully,
dripping, dropping
with a plunk,
ringing gently
round
and down,
gurgle,
glup,
gone.
Life is Short for some
(Poetry)
21-06-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
The small wooden casket contained the small fragile body of the three day old child
Stood under a wall of, artificial transparent, rock. The flame of the candle did not flicker. The flowers and the people not even their breaths moved their...
Love Story
(Short Story)
30-05-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
Love Story
Where do i begin
To tell the story
Of how grateful love can be
The sweet love story
That is older than the sea
That sings the truth about the love she brings to me
Where do i start
With the first hello
She gave the...
Madiba
(Poetry)
21-06-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
I'm sittin' here rottin' in jail,
I got no place to go.
It seems I've been here for forty years
Waitin' on death row.
Will someone turn the heat up?
It's gettin' mighty cold.
The rain is soakin' through my clothes
My shoes are growin'...
Make Poverty History
(Poetry)
12-06-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
Poverty, a word, A cause
A journey with no applause
Poverty
So many speak, too few listen
Pound in the tin, Conscience in pocket
Poverty
A cudgel taken up on my behalf
They take my voice, Ignore my words
Poverty
Level the scales...
Marriage & Love
(Poetry)
7-05-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
Love spoke to marriage,
“It is I who come first.”
For which marriage replied,
“It is for me you come.”
Arguments arose and words clashed.
Both who were one with another,
Split away and, the result,
No love ended in marriage,
And all...
No to racism
(Poetry)
30-11-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
You say you see no color.
I say you're full of it!*
I hope when you look at me
you see black a little bit,
for when you say you see me
how can that really be
when part of who I am
is my ethnicity?
I like my hair, my skin tone,...
Special Friend
(Poetry)
12-06-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
All I ever wanted
Was a friend
Not just any friend
A special friend
You were more than
A friend to me
You just had to blow it
With a mouthful of lies
Since then you've become
Nothing to me
Just another person on
My list...
Strange Faces
(Poetry)
21-06-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
Strange Faces
In an unseeing crowd
Slow paces
My own heart beat loud
Panic thoughts on replay
No money to pay
The pay phone
Without sympathy
Lost…
Success
(Poetry)
9-05-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
I found the 7 secrets of success in my room....
Roof said: ........................................ Aim high
Fan said: ........................................... Be cool
Clock said: .................. Every min. is...
Telephone
(Poetry)
30-05-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
I built you up
to a vision of perfection
I didn't realize...
from you I needed protection.
Break through my doors
Silence my cries
Please don't tell me
you're capable of lies.
I was a fool
to believe the words
all of the deceiving the...
The Library
(Poetry)
21-06-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
Old news articles rotting on the wall.
The smell of ancient paper in the air, the fumes intoxicating.
Knowledge immense my mind is racing over the many renowned, forgotten, revered names engraved on spines of many,
though the pain long...
The Lord is My Shepherd
(Poetry)
4-05-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures;
he leads me beside still waters;
3 he restores my soul.
He leads me in right paths for his name's sake.
4 Even though I walk through the darkest...
The Rain of Sorrow
(Poetry)
21-06-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
Sitting in rain, on a surface not yet wet by cold water.
The freezing liquid falling on me in sheets of wet splinters,
soaking my already cold numb body, but my mind is sharp thinking…thinking of things to come, or thing to have been....
Victoria falls
(Poetry)
11-06-2007
by Shepherd Nyamhuno
come to victoria falls down in zimbabwe
come and feel the thunder in the wonder
come to victoria falls down in zimbabwe
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