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اللغة
A wounded Deer - leaps highest -
i've been waiting for you for months but you don't show up... it's like i don't remember the smell of the flower... so that i don't see it die... you covered me with foam i could only hear your roar... who else saw our beach empty? not even the waves that wet our feet...
Boy on a Swing by Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
Peanut Butter M&M’s and
Nowadays, it’s not a literal blank piece of paper:
At Land’s End
PSALM OF PARLIAMENTARIAN” BY SEHLOHO PIET
TO THE DOCTOR WHO TREATED THE RAPED BABY AND
To Whom it May Concern by Sipho Sepamla
Poem The Zulu Girl
Psalm of Parliamentarian by Sehloho Piet Rampai