Poetry O'clock

By Sehloho Piet Rampai

Sehloho Piet Rampai presents personal selection of his best work in this definitive collection.This book will touch countless readers with its brilliantly crafted verses.Every poem serves a different purpose, and deals with a different pain heals a different heartache.Poetry o'clock takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sehloho Piet Rampai
• Release date: Nov 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463173879

Sehloho Piet Rampai

Sehloho Piet Rampai is an South African awards winning Poet and Author of various poetry books that includes Poetic Justice, Poetry o clock, Mabinabine (South Sotho Poems),The Words,Moonlight, Words of wonders,Shards of my heart,Love letters, Sika la thole Kgaoha ( Sotho Poetry collection) Broken verses, Footprints and Poet& Chronicles.He co authored on the other books (Anthologies) like The Poets Wish, Coast to Coast, Living life till our last breath and The Art of the Philosophy.Most of his work is available online on Poetry Potion and Fundza.mobi.He is the youngest Poet to be featured on The Voices of this land (Anthology of South African Poets since 1800).Apart from writing he is a Politician,Farmer and Business man.He is also qualified as Rugby Coach.

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Poetry o’clock

By Sehloho Piet Rampai

Poetry o’clock

Copyright © Sehloho Piet Rampai, 2019

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Table of Contents

Chapter one

Chapter two

Chapter three

Chapter four

Chapter five

Chapter six

About the author

Chapter one

Mama

Mama who art upon the earth

You gave me life, you gave me love

Let me acknowledge the womb

Where I was conceived

With painful pride

Your presence is a living drama

Living drama of a race

Drama of flesh and blood

You accepted me on your laps

And let me open your womb

The fortune of your birth hood

And let me suckle your breast

Before they became human history

U floated deep seas in stormy days

U held your shoulders

To the Earth’s foundation.

Mother, friend and guider.

Because of you

I am what I am.

Die no more

Let me die, to die no more

Die in an attempt to live forever

My name has been called

Called to die to live eternally

Oh mom, no need to cry

I died flesh and blood

Spiritually my life is guaranteed

Don’t worries be happy

For now I art in heaven

On earth I am miserable

I am going home, to die no more

My death is only my birth began.

Remember

Remember Soweto

Bullet in the back days

Remember the dead

And be glad

Let the praise be to them

Rebel’s freedom is their cause

Being dead it does not matter

How guilty or innocent they died

Being dead it does not matter

How well or bad they died

Being dead we should pay them

Pay them Tribute

Because it is for Living they died.

African

I am not colored

I am neither black

Nor white

I am an African

I, the child of all races

My identity branded in the cry of Mzantsi

In the distant lands of ubuntu

I am proudly

And mysterious African

The porter of all sorrows

I, the