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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...
zizipho bam
Apr 8, 20162 min read
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...
zizipho bam
Apr 6, 20161 min read
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...
zizipho bam
Apr 6, 20162 min read
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...
zizipho bam
Apr 2, 20161 min read


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...
zizipho bam
Mar 21, 20163 min read
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...
zizipho bam
Mar 1, 20162 min read
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...
zizipho bam
Mar 1, 20162 min read
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...
zizipho bam
Feb 25, 20161 min read
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...
zizipho bam
Sep 22, 20154 min read
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...
zizipho bam
Sep 12, 20152 min read
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...
zizipho bam
Aug 26, 20153 min read
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...
zizipho bam
Aug 13, 20151 min read
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...
zizipho bam
Apr 22, 20153 min read
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,...
zizipho bam
Mar 24, 20151 min read
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