Flog a Dead Horse: Poetry Anthology

By Musa Gift Masombuka

The contents in the book, are mostly true and fictional. The poems in here reflects the difficulty of life towards abandoned children, family matters, lack of facts-of-life from parents, relationship matters, and happy moments. It is a MUSTHAVE masterpiece. Each poem has a short biography, questions to test your understanding. And that makes it so INTERESTING.!

Why Flog A Dead Horse?

The name has been chosen looking at the theme in which the manuscript was prepared.

What is in the book?

The book covers more than just poems and questions. The theme of the book is based on real life, things that happen to us on a daily basis which we are not aware of that. It is a combination of poetry in general, life sciences, life orientation, geography, physical sciences, grammar and dictionary skills. It is indeed a MUSTHAVE, because it will enrich your mind and teach a learner to not always be dependent on a teacher for everything. He/She must learn to investigate on his/her own.


What would you benefit from this book?


You will learn so much more than just poetry. It will enrich your knowledge and improve your vocabulary. It gives you a chance to express and challenge your mind, to widen it.! You also stand a chance to know other languages around the world and how music takes part in poetry.


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• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491849606

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2014 Musa Gift Masombuka. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse 03/18/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4918-4959-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4918-4960-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014900480

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Contents

Introduction

Biographies of the poets

1.   A Backstabber

2.   A Half of Me

3.   A Hero was Born

4.   A Real Man

5.   Across the River

6.   An Anonymous Dad

7.   An Idea Came

8.   Animal Talk

9.   Born This Way

10.   Boy Wonder

11.   Complicated

12.   Cupcakes

13.   Death

14.   Don’t think they know

15.   Education

16.   Falling In Love

17.   Fatherless me, Motherless I

18.   First birthday

19.   He, who saved me

20.   Home is where the heart belongs

21.   I Am Me

22.   I am nobody’s fool

23.   I knew you were trouble

24.   I Poverty

25.   I think they are thinking

26.   I’m wide awake

27.   I Priest

28.   An intoxicated man

29.   Jai Ho!

30.   Little Girl [explicit]

31.   Love Story

32.   Make you feel my love

33.   Making my moves

34.   My first dice

35.   People talk

36.   Phrases blown by wind

37.   Poetry

38.   Shattered Heart

39.   SIM Card

40.   Someone in my lane

41.   Song of animals

42.   Started from the bottom

43.   Summer Spring

44.   Talk A Good Game [explicit]

45.   Teasing

46.   Technology

47.   The cold glass

48.   The day before I was born

49.   The day before tomorrow

50.   The one that got away

51.   Time

52.   To my father II

53.   To my Father

54.   A Toxic Lover

55.   True Beauty Lies In The Heart

56.   True Heroism Lies Within You

57.   Unfaithful Me

58.   Upside Down Room

59.   What can a brother do for you?

60.   When you know, you know

61.   Which door?

62.   Who is Mapule Pila?

63.   Winter

Introduction

Have you felt stressed, depressed, sad, jubilant or feeling lonely? Have you been betrayed, heartbroken, back-stabbed or defeated? Have you ever been challenged or felt like the world has neglected you, all sorts of love has faded within you? Have you ever experienced your dreams becoming your worst nightmares, feeling useless? This book will help you restore and rebuild your confidence. It is said that things seem impossible until they are done.

In this book you will find all kinds of poems, some of them you may think that they are criticizing you or against your culture. But no hard feelings because poetry is well written with facts hidden between the lines, it seem a bit challenging because it tells about love, fight, hatred, negligence, friendship, romance and flash-backs.

People use to think that only experts do better but what they don’t know is that they all start from the bottom. Those who lack self-confidence and those who need facts-of-life, this book will guide you. To those who are heart-broken, faded trust and lonely in life, we’ve got poems to show you the light.

Some people prefer poems with only author name. Well, in this book is different, we cover author biographies, poems and questions to test your understanding of poetry. This book has been written by 7 secondary school pupils expressing their love for poetry. It has been written with various different themes and languages. It is suitable for secondary schools where English is their home language or second language.

Poetry is more than just putting words on a paper to express the inner feelings right from your heart. The poets have used hidden but comprehensible language to express their feelings so that when going through the poem, it goes right through to the bones from your heart to jiggle your body. Poetry ever since introduced it has been divided into genres like; prison poetry, lyric poetry, legendary poetry, Shakespeare, millennium poetry and oral poetry.

MISSION

To provide knowledge to the people about poetry. To empower the nation through learning, Flog A Dead Horse Poetry Anthology is a book which covers author biographies for people to know about the life of an author, and a short description about the poem to make the poem more simple and understandable. No glossary included in this book, learners should inherit the characteristics of students of doing researches for themselves, never always rely on a teacher for everything.

VISION

Explore the world of poetry. Bring poetry back to life from the cold depths. To see learners understanding poetry in plural. To see learners being educated, mind-enriched, self-dependant and teacher independent on everything.

Biographies of the poets

Musa Gift Masombuka (autobiography).

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ABOUT MUSA GIFT MASOMBUKA.

I was born 1 April 1998, the first son of Anna Masombuka and Vusi Sibiya followed by an illegitimate Charlie Oratile Masombuka. I was born and bred in Siyabuswa with the Sibiya family until age 2,