Submissions by MphoLeteng (Mpho Leteng)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
The lust to write always catch me in resonate moments when I’m having most of me to myself, then to bleed out the pain of thinking hard I will pen down all that comes to mind and somebody will look at that and say its poetry.
Because I am a poet
While you segment that thin unleavened cake of oat-meal brother;
Because I am a poet...
I will brew a triolet with mnemonic rhymes
And pour it heavily down the crack before the beginning ends.
While you rest motionlessly...
Like a trampled weed in the middle of the jungle,
Because I am a poet...
I will sing lullabies to my lilting brain
I have grained poems for the next mid-lent sunday,
As you put in your oar for well rich,
Hopefully you'll find your which
Because I am a poet...
I have been to a future where poets are...
Because I am a poet...
I will brew a triolet with mnemonic rhymes
And pour it heavily down the crack before the beginning ends.
While you rest motionlessly...
Like a trampled weed in the middle of the jungle,
Because I am a poet...
I will sing lullabies to my lilting brain
I have grained poems for the next mid-lent sunday,
As you put in your oar for well rich,
Hopefully you'll find your which
Because I am a poet...
I have been to a future where poets are...
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
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hurled into the depths
cloaked in the dark waves of a Kachikau winter night;
the last faint gleam of hope glide,
scared out my wits, no one by my side,
who can i trust?
even my own shadow abondons me when i am in darkness!
My presumptous heart deceived me!
hurled me into depths deeper than sheol,
i have become psychologically lifeless
the path behind me is full of broken dreams.
death drenched my thoughts in red,
my soul is bald and filled with ashes of a mind burned to crisp,
the pain of my future has no cure!
a broken soul in pulsing pain,...
the last faint gleam of hope glide,
scared out my wits, no one by my side,
who can i trust?
even my own shadow abondons me when i am in darkness!
My presumptous heart deceived me!
hurled me into depths deeper than sheol,
i have become psychologically lifeless
the path behind me is full of broken dreams.
death drenched my thoughts in red,
my soul is bald and filled with ashes of a mind burned to crisp,
the pain of my future has no cure!
a broken soul in pulsing pain,...
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the remnant of Leteng
When they imprisoned our minds into the grave...
among the dead we found breathing bones,
When they crucified our bright crude crave...
some of us died battling a way out
We rode over humps of pain to this far,
'However, long the night the dawn will break'
we broke the shells, they only heard the crepitate
now upon our house hopes precipitate
we've seen the silver lining,
Oree, the twins and mum have reason to stay smiling
I and Mogo have grown to be great authors
with the past, our past is past
among the dead we found breathing bones,
When they crucified our bright crude crave...
some of us died battling a way out
We rode over humps of pain to this far,
'However, long the night the dawn will break'
we broke the shells, they only heard the crepitate
now upon our house hopes precipitate
we've seen the silver lining,
Oree, the twins and mum have reason to stay smiling
I and Mogo have grown to be great authors
with the past, our past is past
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fading
The day fell and night came;
In the dark i stood alone,
mind filled with prior thoughts of a red future, gleaming gold
A bleeding earth and crust fold!
The cold Kachikau winds recycled in to my nostrils the breath of the late me!
I saw the end of the world;
like a rose during the dry season the future was fading,
The walls we built were trembling down,
The rock of my salvation weathered and her spirit erouded.
The Kachikau horizons were levelled,
The times you were with me when i was with you were no more
a fire burned them to the depths...
In the dark i stood alone,
mind filled with prior thoughts of a red future, gleaming gold
A bleeding earth and crust fold!
The cold Kachikau winds recycled in to my nostrils the breath of the late me!
I saw the end of the world;
like a rose during the dry season the future was fading,
The walls we built were trembling down,
The rock of my salvation weathered and her spirit erouded.
The Kachikau horizons were levelled,
The times you were with me when i was with you were no more
a fire burned them to the depths...
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when the earth bleeds
When the earth bleeds;
fights abound about like Aboriginals tales,
memories of words that abut prophecies unveil,
multitudes of no fixed abodes occupy psychiantric hospital beds...
living in pain waiting in vain,
life shattered and broken...
a shadow closing down the globe
when the earth bleeds!
we fall prey of destructive social evils
within the core of our hearts we feel "death will be better"
rather than "heaven will be better"
the acrid smell of worm worked corpses,
the sun bleeding out vestiges!
death...
fights abound about like Aboriginals tales,
memories of words that abut prophecies unveil,
multitudes of no fixed abodes occupy psychiantric hospital beds...
living in pain waiting in vain,
life shattered and broken...
a shadow closing down the globe
when the earth bleeds!
we fall prey of destructive social evils
within the core of our hearts we feel "death will be better"
rather than "heaven will be better"
the acrid smell of worm worked corpses,
the sun bleeding out vestiges!
death...
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the night she died
a night full of heart aching memories;
a night thoughts drenched in black,
the ground exibiting it's daggers,ready to claim another victim
a sudden pause in the good days of our lives
she was lying there in adverse pain,
only tear drops were emanated by her internal agonised bellows,
thou we were born from the same womb
i did not know who she was,
neither did she know who i was!
i was told after ashes to ashes
i was told that she was my twin sister!
i was told she wentaway with a father i never met!
immense pain suddenly filled my...
a night thoughts drenched in black,
the ground exibiting it's daggers,ready to claim another victim
a sudden pause in the good days of our lives
she was lying there in adverse pain,
only tear drops were emanated by her internal agonised bellows,
thou we were born from the same womb
i did not know who she was,
neither did she know who i was!
i was told after ashes to ashes
i was told that she was my twin sister!
i was told she wentaway with a father i never met!
immense pain suddenly filled my...
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she stood there....
she stood there with her bare face hanging outside;
mind dry as a bone,
she stood there teardrops slowly falling down her cheeks
in a logical sequence of one after the other
they have cut the ground from under her!
her burning impulses told a story never been told,
the comforting frame of words she touched was so cold,
deep,dark thoughts envaded her working memory;
so she stood there quite and motionless
she stood there hurt and full of avenging thoughts
they jabbed her mind like marriage vows that didn't last
they struck like lightining...
mind dry as a bone,
she stood there teardrops slowly falling down her cheeks
in a logical sequence of one after the other
they have cut the ground from under her!
her burning impulses told a story never been told,
the comforting frame of words she touched was so cold,
deep,dark thoughts envaded her working memory;
so she stood there quite and motionless
she stood there hurt and full of avenging thoughts
they jabbed her mind like marriage vows that didn't last
they struck like lightining...
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within Hailing Distance
i heard your piercing scream;
you breezed my innefable core,
you stroke the center of my heart with bellows cold as a welldigger's ass
you put me though the mangle,
intergrated the intersection of our different state of existence
breathless in an unreal moment
i crumpled to the ground,
i crawled towards echoes of your vociferation
through the dead night i ran naked;
only to find you there no more!
i know you've long died Marry
and i've put your memories as a seal upon my heart
now that you came back for me
my soul is cleaved to...
you breezed my innefable core,
you stroke the center of my heart with bellows cold as a welldigger's ass
you put me though the mangle,
intergrated the intersection of our different state of existence
breathless in an unreal moment
i crumpled to the ground,
i crawled towards echoes of your vociferation
through the dead night i ran naked;
only to find you there no more!
i know you've long died Marry
and i've put your memories as a seal upon my heart
now that you came back for me
my soul is cleaved to...
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Beyond the pale
Life inflicted a re sounding defeat on you;
down the drain you lied flat as a pancake
for many years you've been silent,
a phrase of call in the eye of the storm woke you up.
the fullness of your heart was needled
so you rummaged the future tirelesly;
you searched hard for faint solace,
for the last drop of hope
now since you've been back we never stopped crying,
we never stopped complaining
but your caliber seem to be the framer of your innefable core,
the composer of your innermost breath
now we know why for we watched when you died the death
down the drain you lied flat as a pancake
for many years you've been silent,
a phrase of call in the eye of the storm woke you up.
the fullness of your heart was needled
so you rummaged the future tirelesly;
you searched hard for faint solace,
for the last drop of hope
now since you've been back we never stopped crying,
we never stopped complaining
but your caliber seem to be the framer of your innefable core,
the composer of your innermost breath
now we know why for we watched when you died the death
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A fate worse than death
A fate worse than death we survived,
lost in thought what could a man possibly do?
the best person you can ever be is you
we've laid hands on your empty corpse
we streched hearts to touch your soul
we've cried symphathetically looking through your grave
we cursed the cause that sounded your death knell
and waited patiently for a miracle to happen
we lost all the tears we reserved for other people's deaths,
to snatch you out of the jaws of death
but what God has given,he has now taken
your rumble of calm died many...
lost in thought what could a man possibly do?
the best person you can ever be is you
we've laid hands on your empty corpse
we streched hearts to touch your soul
we've cried symphathetically looking through your grave
we cursed the cause that sounded your death knell
and waited patiently for a miracle to happen
we lost all the tears we reserved for other people's deaths,
to snatch you out of the jaws of death
but what God has given,he has now taken
your rumble of calm died many...
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A good girl she was
I saw the edge of her pinafore at end;
and I remembered the righteouos and justice that was lodged in her,
now harlotry thoughts precipitate within her!
like the glaze covering an earthen vessel her lips are always smooth
she tried to build life from a soul torn by trouble,
but emanated a dark sooth!
she has now covered her beginnings with guile;
entangled herself with a snare unaware
her heart is broken beyond healing but she do not know
she now indiscriminate sexual intercouurse for payment!
she battens like a...
and I remembered the righteouos and justice that was lodged in her,
now harlotry thoughts precipitate within her!
like the glaze covering an earthen vessel her lips are always smooth
she tried to build life from a soul torn by trouble,
but emanated a dark sooth!
she has now covered her beginnings with guile;
entangled herself with a snare unaware
her heart is broken beyond healing but she do not know
she now indiscriminate sexual intercouurse for payment!
she battens like a...
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secrect of innocence
Reed before the wind lives on,
while mighty oaks do fall;
life's crisis beat you hollow
you came back wading through the dead night
but never...never the same!
bathed in a compound of blood and sweat
pants teared up and your crass boots were wet,
you've been fighting hard to unfold sealed reality
you've been fighting to reveal old truth layers,
you were a good warrior and got knocked down
you rose after we squashed peices of ice in your chest
sadly you rose to watch the battle end,
but if the love we have for one another was at all true love,...
while mighty oaks do fall;
life's crisis beat you hollow
you came back wading through the dead night
but never...never the same!
bathed in a compound of blood and sweat
pants teared up and your crass boots were wet,
you've been fighting hard to unfold sealed reality
you've been fighting to reveal old truth layers,
you were a good warrior and got knocked down
you rose after we squashed peices of ice in your chest
sadly you rose to watch the battle end,
but if the love we have for one another was at all true love,...
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