Writing for a Bushfire
I entered the writing session as a ball of fire. Having experienced another situation where an old racist man had silenced my voice and...
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zizipho bam
- Apr 6, 2016
- 1 min
Mid-night Lonesome
Read this when silence wants to crawl under your skin. When there are echoes beneath your tongue. Believe this when they have all gone...
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zizipho bam
- Apr 6, 2016
- 2 min
Number 22: The lost love letter.
Don’t tell me to be strong. Don’t tell me to move on. Don’t  use your big words to make me doubt myself . Don’t tell me to smile...
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zizipho bam
- Apr 2, 2016
- 1 min
Bluebird
there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see...
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zizipho bam
- Mar 21, 2016
- 3 min
To Uncle Frank
I want to thank you for your hands.  For always obeying the itch when your hands needed you to pick up the guitar and play. For...
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zizipho bam
- Mar 1, 2016
- 2 min
Censor Me.
To you who looks at me like I am a walking mortuary, carrying a dead body.Looks down at me, looks pissed off at me, looks suspicious of...
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zizipho bam
- Mar 1, 2016
- 2 min
Number 1
Lover, lately it’s been hard to breath under all this skin. I have been choking in my sleep from the weight of this flesh resting on my...
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zizipho bam
- Feb 25, 2016
- 1 min
Mortality
On Tuesday morning, The roof of your shack was leaking Every drop was a drip of water you wished to savor. You lied in your bed, watched...
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zizipho bam
- Sep 22, 2015
- 4 min
Number 34.
I think i often take for advantage the things i write, and how they sound and the meaning and message they take on in somebody else’s...
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zizipho bam
- Sep 12, 2015
- 2 min
You Too Have A Heart The Size Of A Whale.
I don’t know if this is how a love poem begins but I’m already here. I have carved my breathe into your ticking clock and I am being...
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zizipho bam
- Aug 26, 2015
- 3 min
Messages from the inside : An Anthalogy
Says someone from the inside Centuries from today, when the vocabulary of that time no longer acknowledges spoken word. Say that this was...
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zizipho bam
- Aug 13, 2015
- 1 min
A haiku a day, keeps the writers block away.
A lot can be said in just a few words and so can a lot of words say everything.As a poet and a lover of writing, i sometimes find it...
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zizipho bam
- Apr 22, 2015
- 3 min
Poem for my mother
My mother tells me I’m a star, I think she’s right but I didn’t want show her I believed her before she got to the part where she told me...
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zizipho bam
- Mar 24, 2015
- 1 min
Joy
Joy is a state of being,begin to be in it Detach yourself from fear, from here on listen to all that the universe is saying to you,...
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