Poems Rethabile Likes

Where the Grass is Warm by Rethabile Masilo | Poems Rethabile Likes Where the Grass is Warm by Rethabile Masilo I walk to where the grass is warm; you have words that move to close each gap within; we talk about old times, and suddenly I say: here's a face, a good place you can turn to, it is yours and you may keep it if you will, and I hand you myself as a young man who adored you, before they slew you— the time we played morabaraba on the flat boulder above our home in Qoaling—that house now trembles when it's approached, like a child beaten into submission for years who sees a face that resembles its sex maste...

This Is What You Shall Do by Walt Whitman | Poems Rethabile Likes "This Is What You Shall Do" from the Preface to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Walt Whitman (1819–1892) — from the Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855). Read by RedFrost Motivation What does it mean to live a life worthy of poetry? Whitman answers in this prose manifesto — a call to love the earth, stand up for the broken, and trust your own soul above all creeds. It is the preface that changed American poetry forever, and it still sounds like a challenge. This Is What You Shall Do This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have pat...

Old boat by Michael Cope | Poems Rethabile Likes × Books by Michael Cope Novels: Spiral of Fire (David Philip, 1986) Goldin: A Tale (iUniverse, 2005) Sunderland (Jacana, 2014, with Ken Barris) The Fall of Ugarit (Vanity Press, 2025) Poetry: Scenes and Visions (Snailpress, 1990) GHAAP, Sonnets from the Northern Cape (Kwela Books and Snailpress, 2005) The Craft (Left Field Press, 2017) Memoir: Intricacy: A Meditation on Memory (Double Storey, 2005) Other: Concerning the Work (Thin Ice Press, York, UK and River Press, Cape Town) — about the jeweller's tools ...

On Angels by Czesław Miłosz | Poems Rethabile Likes On Angels by Czesław Miłosz All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out, a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts, you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams. Short is your stay here: now and then at a matinal hour, if the sky is clear, in a melody repeated by a bird, or in the smell of apples at the close of day when the light makes the orchards magic. They say somebody has invented you but to me this does not sound convinc...

Manenburg by Abigail George | Poems Rethabile Likes Manenburg by Abigail George There're people living there Grandmothers and aunties, young men, uncles, ou toppies Their bodies need seawater, they hunger for it Men who need employment and not the old sores of apartheid Children who need parental supervision They're all soldiers, aren't they, in a way? Some do not know that action is the antidote to hardship, struggle Some go to bed with a gun under their pillow The children play at shooting each other This country is in need of spiritual warfare, not mass hallucination, not reckless endan...