The Road Home: a collection of poems

By Masuku Artwell

The Road Home is a thought provoking, wity and rather controversial collection of poems.

Once the valley was green and golden
Now desolate and barren
We wake up to a vulture’s feast
In the house of pain and hunger
With our troubles melting like lemon drops
Our lives full of needful things
From dusk till dawn we struggle
Walking the valley of the shadow of death
Lonely, lost and scared in a foreign land
Feeling the sadness and all the pain
Brother killing brother
Wondering when all this madness will last
The road home beckons.
In the poem: The road home, the poet laments about his longing for his homeland.
When will this killing this madness end. The poet speaks with a strong voice in this collection which cover a wide range of themes that include love, politics, death, oppression, suffering and the triumph of the human spirit as seen from an African perspective.
“Although some of the poems are from personal experiences, the rest are from experiences of people that I have met, talked to or observed in the course of writing this work.” The poet has this to say about his work.
The book is a must read for people who love Africa especially Africans at home and in the Diaspora.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Masuku Artwell
• Release date: Jun 23, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476188164

Masuku Artwell

A freelance Journalist and ICT Technician, Artwell ka Masuku has worked as a builder assistant, security officer, CCTV and Control room operator among other jobs.He has had some Ndebele poems published in an anthology “Giya Mthwakazi” (Longman Zimbabwe, 1990).He has written and published Buchitheka Bugayiwe (a novel) Ngabadala Abaziyo (a radio play), Kasikhulume (IsiNdebele essays), Ngeso Lokhozi (a collection of IsiNdebele poetry) , Umfazi Womuntu (an IsiNdebele stage play)You never know with love (Short stories) , Imisebenzi yothando(Novel)

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THE ROAD HOME

A Collection of poems

By Artwell Masuku

Published by Sukuma Books

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© Copyright 2012 Artwell Masuku

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Dedication

The best and most beautiful things in the world

Cannot be seen or be touched

They must be felt with the heart.

To the memory of Mthabisi Masuku

Born 17 June 2005

Died 20 December 2007

The Poet: Born in Pumula, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe on the 28th of November 1965; Artwell Masuku was educated at St.Bernards Primary, Singwangombe Primary and Msiteli Secondary Schools. In 1994 obtained a Journalism Diploma from Birnam Business College in South Africa. In 2009 obtained a PC Engineering Certificate from Havatech (RSA). A freelance Journalist and ICT Technician, he has had some Ndebele poems published in an anthology Giya Mthwakazi (Longman Zimbabwe, 1990)

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. –quote from Nelson Mandela’s inaugural speech as president of South Africa, May 1994

Of love and friendship

1. African woman

2. Are you a true friend?

3. Love

4. I love you because …

5. My love

6. For you

7. Now you tell me

8. The smile

9. Without you

10. You need someone

11. To the one who took my heart

12. Remember the time

13. Life goes on

14. I believed

15. Had I known

16. Come go with me

17. I am what Iam

18. Out of love

19. See me now, see me no more

20. Woman

21. My hero

22. When night falls

23. My son

24. The feeling

25. Coming home

26. This road...again

27. Tell me

Written in anger

28. I have suffered

29. Some people

30. Today

31. What do you know?

32. Sometimes

33. No more words

34. Take no nonsense

35. They don’t care

36. The portrait

37. Summer of ’83

38. The Africa mosquito

39. Me

40. An African perspective

41. Frustrations

42. Crime

43. How does it feel?

Thoughts of home and the Diaspora.

44. Changes

45. A day in December

46. Alexandra

47.