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    Sporadic Rays of Light Through the Thicket
    Sporadic Rays of Light Through the Thicket
    Sporadic Rays of Light Through the Thicket
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    Sporadic Rays of Light Through the Thicket

    By Niki Nicholas Nkuna

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    The poems in this book capture the poets inclination to talk matters of decorum in all chance encounters. He resents misdemeanor of any kind. Writing poetry presents him with the opportunity to discredit misdemeanor and get satisfaction due to dearth of debate.

    Through poetry and other writings, hes tirelessly endeavoring to highlight and discredit misdemeanor and proffer valuable ideas about a variety of issues that affect people in general. Theres also an obvious sense and trace of spiritual conviction in the sporadic rays through the thicket of life. This poetry collection would obviously serve as a motivating tool to the reader. It contains valuable lessons about life, mostly about the dos and donts, what is right or wrong, the beauty and ugliness of life, in things and people.

    Conspicuous by title are poems like, Change, which talks about the inevitability of change, and Only God Knows, which tells you not to agonise about tomorrow, rather worry about the now (God will take care of tomorrow, for Hes the only one that knows what tomorrow holds for us and what will happen). After All Thats What She Would Want from Me is a poem of encouragement to help people overcome grief about a loved one who has passed on.

    The rays are plenty in this book. Use them to illuminate your way through the thicket of life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPartridge Publishing Africa
    Release dateOct 22, 2014
    ISBN9781482803235
    Sporadic Rays of Light Through the Thicket
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    Niki Nicholas Nkuna

    Niki Nicholas Nkuna , fifty-seven years old, was not originally a poetry enthusiast, but he discovered, through wide reading of verse, novels, and newspapers, that portent ideas emerging about life in general could be shared through short-story writing and poetry. He began to read more poetry, at first not comprehending the crux of the message in the poems but kept on reading because he enjoyed the melody of the structure of ideas. At the same time, he began to understand that most poems are written in an abstract form—one has to read a poem more than once to get the gist of it. He also learned poetry writing as his interest heightened and started writing poetry, short stories, and newspaper articles. This is his debut book of poetry collection. He’s a corporate employee and often entertains friends and colleagues with poetry reading during company events. His poetry is also accessible at PoemHunter.com, under his name. He also enjoys epigram and writing quotations on general issues. He lives in South Africa, married with three children, two boys and one girl. He has two grandchildren, a boy and a girl, Mumu and Pono, whom he loves dearly.

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