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Tag Archives: poetry

1 [mass noun] literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.

2 the best poetry from Doek!.

1 July 20251 July 2025 Vekondjisa Nosipho KatusuvaIn Issue 15: The Throne And The Crown

Identity Why did the Herero girl stop singing her people’s hymns?

1 July 20251 July 2025 Amanda GunnIn Issue 15: The Throne And The Crown

Diagnostic III Lean forward. Stop breathing.

1 July 20251 July 2025 Amanda GunnIn Issue 15: The Throne And The Crown

Elegy At 2 A.M. I dream that it’s a weeknight and you are alive again.

30 December 202430 December 2024 Ethel MafwilaIn Issue 14: Turipamwe

To Be Forgotten There are things my shadow could not begin to whisper.

30 December 202430 December 2024 Ethel MafwilaIn Issue 14: Turipamwe

If Broken Glass Floated There is a shame that dances to sympathy and bathes in pity, it gets drunk on its own nudity.

30 December 202430 December 2024 Ethel MafwilaIn Issue 14: Turipamwe

Enough I did not know how difficult it was to drink your own tears, so as to not die from thirst.

5 August 20245 August 2024 Tjizembua TjikuzuIn Issue 13: Dala

Fig Tree …when you are done and gone from this place, I will pluck a sapling from your father’s fig tree and plant it in my garden for my children to eat.

5 August 20245 August 2024 Tjizembua TjikuzuIn Issue 13: Dala

Portrait Of My Grandfather …distilling tears into nourishing rain.

15 December 202315 December 2023 Scholastika Namutenya NegongoIn Issue 12: The Crossing

A Road It’s neither a shadow nor myth; it's a choice with no rights.

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