Sunday, January 27, 2013

psalm poetry for a change


The Green Ankh Collection

The Poetry, Songs and Musings of Menzi Maseko


Love

a dream love

in waking could be found unwelcomed

in reality

love

no one can escape unharmed by

love

pay all you can but can never

ever buy love

without the sweet thorn of love

what are we living for ?

for just the sweet thought of love

makes the longing

makes the pain

the yearning

all worth the loving

all is worth the life of love
 
 
 

Re deuced 2 Numbers

It’s a numbers game

the unlettered can also play

being numbered amongst the

rest of the number – D

 

shadows boxing shadows

spectres wrestling spectres

ghosts in a shell

sponsored by the order of the day

royal rituals cloaked in the grag-net

striving to learn what life is worth

the lesson has become cumbersome

at the feet of a sped up change

if you pay with your soul you can’t get no change

and what has been here before you can’t call it strange

is the sun strange

in its heat

is the wind

in its sweep

is the rain, pain and joy

how are any of these new every morning?

should have listened and done what was told to you

now look out

before you can earn another number
 
 
 
Aaron’s Iron

say inspiration

have you wings of steel?

 

I am trying to find insight

Something to excite

Enfright

Delight or incite

In the words of these so called poets

 

so say ancient tool of the mystivs

have you a pair of Mercurial feet?

or do you possess a Gemini’s half smile

 

looking at life with a piercing love

a love that’s a hate

a dissatisfaction with it all

can you fly

inspiration?

Into this cave

This cage

flutter your wings in a rage

and break this silence

with your world shattering flutter
 
 
 
 
Generosity

 

i am first grandson of MaNdlovu

and my love is a generous as hers

 

prayerful woman

so powerful

like days of sand and thunder

these words are fire

conceived

after

love entered hope

and faith was born

 

GIVING

 

giving

like grandmothers hands

is evergreen

yes it comes in other colours too


I once felt a love that was of an undisclosed hue

At first I thought it was blue

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