Poetry Unlimited

By Mathibe Daniel Disolwane

Welcome to the fascinating world of poetry.
This is the world whose peoples live in style.
This is the world whose language is uncommon,
Whose way of speaking is flowing like a stream,
Unmindful of grammar and language rules.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Sep 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499089431

Mathibe Daniel Disolwane

The author is an ex-educator. He started the teaching career in 1977 as unqualified teacher. He graduated as a teacher at the end of 1978 at Setotolwane College and started teaching in 1979 at a deeply rural Maserumule Secondary school. He also taught at the following secondary schools until he deviated from the normal classroom teaching to the world of business. The schools are: Thagaetala high School from 1983 to 1993 Thakgudi High School from 1994 up to 2009, the year of his handing over of the teaching baton to the gallants of education. He served as the first Limpopo Provincial Secretary of the School Governing Bodies Associations for three years. He used to be The Thobela FM guest teacher on programmes such as Science and technology, Africa Day and Geography. Presently he is an author and an Inspirational Speaker.

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Copyright © 2014 by Mathibe Daniel Disolwane.

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-4990-8942-4

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD

1.   I REFUSE

2.   NO MUSIC IS WITHOUT AUDIENCE

3.   FEMININE OXYGEN

4.   PROVISION

5.   CREATIVITY

6.   CHILDREN

7.   ALTERNATIVE

8.   IS THE REAL GOD RESPONSIBLE?

9.   IS CREATION GOD’S SUBJECT OF STUDY?

10.   IT IS NO WONDER

11.   THE INSANE MAN

12.   I LOOKED AT THE CLOUDS

13.   IF JESUS WERE TO DESCEND TODAY

14.   MY ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY TO THE ERA BEFORE TIME

15.   THE BOUGHT LOOKS

16.   THE BIBLE AND THE BULLET

17.   IS IT THE HIS OR THE HER’S IN

18.   NOTHING IS SOME THING

19.   NO PERSON IS A FAILURE

20.   I AM HERE

21.   WHAT I THINK

22.   THINKING VERSAS REASONING

23.   THE PERIOD BEFORE THE BEGINNING

24.   UNSAMENESS

25.   NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA

DEDICATION

THIS book is dedicated:

To ALL learners whose insatiable appetite is to satisfy their indescribable thirst for knowledge because those without it perish unknowingly.

To my wife and children without whose support I could not have begotten this book.

To the South African teachers who are daily and tirelessly eager to remain the custodians of education regardless of the peanuts they take home after every monthly sweating. To you honourable ladies and gentlemen, bravo and I together with the whole world are unapologetically saluting you for the selfless sacrificial work you were and still are minutely engaged in.

On this perilous nation-building venture you are to me and to miilions out there a kind of Christ.

We can only say to God your creater with joyfull songs sing and say:

Gloria in excelsis Deo /

Glory be to God in the highest

ET in terra pax Mandela et hominibus bonae voluntatis

And on earth peace toMandela and humanity

of good will…….

et tu Mandela es rex pacem

and you Mandela are king of peace.

FOREWORD

Welcome to the fascinating world of poetry.

This is the world whose peoples live in style.

This is the world whose language is uncommon,

Whose way of speaking is flowing like a stream,

Unmindful of grammar and language rules.

The poems contained in this book may be classed in three categories, viz: Those with strong flavour of:

Politico-economic controversies,

The Religio-economic controversies, and of the

General philosophic utterances.

It is therefore advised that this is not the turf for the politically and the religiously timid, but for those with steely nerves.

You are urged to forget everything around you, enter the dark room of the cinema world of poetry.

Be in there with all your senses focused to enjoy this poetry movie.

At the movie-end make a bee line to the exit back into your yester hour life.

I REFUSE

I refuse the untruths the bible speaks about Jesus

Jesus born of the lineage of Africans

Welcomers and feeders of Mr Abraham’s people

I refuse to accept lies said about Jesus

Whose ancestors knew and appreciated the African peoples hospitality

I refuse to swallow lies spoken about Jesus

The boy who knew the warmth of the African women

The boy who knew the tender feel of the lap of the African women

The boy who fell asleep against the pillow like breasts of the African women

The boy who was lullabied to sleep by the African girls

The boy who played hide and seek with the African children

The boy who splashed the waters of Nile during the summer months of May, June and July

I refuse with all my might the