Gaborone Sun

Let us consider the harshness of the sun of Gaborone Gaborone sun may rise slowly but when it hits it hurls all to the nearest shade The virulent…

June 17, 2020

Gaborone Poets

They run around the thirsty city always at the mercy of an elsewhere, celebrating what they like to hate Pointing fingers at what they hardly see or rubbing…

June 17, 2020

The Death I Love

The death I love is the death of ignorance the death that buries one in fresh pages of everlasting movement between despair and hope the death of dizzying…

May 29, 2020

I Know Rightly

I know rightly that the day after tomorrow you and I my sister will be holding hands peering at the thick clouds that threaten to close our minds…

May 29, 2020

Heartache

This heartache of days spent walking alleyways ignored overlooked shifted defined ruled overruled This heartache of days of daring to restore hope twisted on the first day of…

May 29, 2020

A MEMORY

That cloudy Saturday morning you and I went to the Main Mall You and I entered a clothing shop to buy a sparkling red hand bag the matching…

May 29, 2020

Every Day You Are Africa, My Love

You are Africa, my love A standing sentinel poised to breath life into every space you move in primed to colour the canvas in upbeat hues shed light…

May 28, 2020

Gaborone Chilly Mid Morning

This bright and chilly mid-morning Birds tweet and excrete in mid-air Their frenzy heightened By fresh gusts of wind And swirling dust Their melodies mingling With distant sounds…

May 23, 2020

Say Goodbye

Say goodbye before you go at least say one half of a goodbye before you leave only to look back one last time before you take leave before…

May 15, 2020

Distillery of Love and Joy

These chirruping birds, this slight wind and these sparse clouds are our companions. They nourish us with priceless insight in the spaces between jazz, blues and silence. The…

May 15, 2020

The Heat We All Complain About

The heat we suffer is in the tears of babies the stifled cries of children Whose future is snatched By grubby fingers Of those who can’t think Beyond…

May 15, 2020

Hunger

Beyond the tiresome alphabet of boardroom labels Beyond the euphemised hunger of art galleries Beyond sham renditions of experience beyond the claptrap of platforms hard-pressed angels till the…

May 15, 2020