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Idioma
بشنو این نی چون شکایت میکند از جداییها حکایت میکند
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