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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A KIND-HEARTED STATUE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The quiet little transvaal
Last Line: Why, it is blest again!
Subject(s): Kruger, Stephanus Johannes (1825-1904); Statues; Transvaal, South Africa


A SONG FOR SOWETO, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the throat of soweto
Last Line: With the song of soweto
Subject(s): Soweto, South Africa; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


ABAFAZI (WOMEN), by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the shining tyumie river
Last Line: And give their lives: %the struggle continues
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918); South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


ABANDONED TOWN IN THE TRANSVAAL, by JOHN BRANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a quiet world %in the eastern transvaal
Last Line: As if %someone has gone %and may not be back %soon
Subject(s): Transvaal, South Africa


ABOUT GRAFFITI, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Graffiti is the writing on the wall
Last Line: Soon garffiti will wade into jo'burg %unhampered by the tourniquet of influx control
Subject(s): Graffiti; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


ABUDANCE, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I possess a thousand thundering voices
Last Line: But again and again the branches shoot forth with new seasons
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


AFRICA, by ILVA MACKAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Africa %mother of children
Last Line: The sound of warriors answering the call for freedom
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


AFRICAN PROMETHEUS, by DAVID+(2) EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: High %upon the krantz
Last Line: Prometheus %endures
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


AFTERMATH, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rains will be levelling the mounds we have dedicated to liberty
Last Line: Which will be coming so long as we advance, brother, advance
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


AGRARIAN REFORM, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw a black man
Last Line: There is still time
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


ALL THAT WE NEED, 4 A.M., by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The train threads a needle through the night
Last Line: Gives way, and lovers sigh, turn over, %too full of light to sleep
Subject(s): Cape Town, South Africa; Travel


ALL WENT MAGNIFICENT IN '21, by UNKNOWN+289    Poem Source                    
First Line: We address our people's cause
Last Line: The clapping of our guns %curtain-calls the fisted years
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


ALL WILL BE OURS AGAIN, by UNKNOWN+289    Poem Source                    
First Line: To us the progeny
Last Line: It will come back %all will be ours again
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


AND DENIS GOLDBERG, by DAVID+(2) EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Many those %who saw
Last Line: We value it no less
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


AND I WATCH IT IN MANDELA, by JOHN MATSHIKZAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is not to wait until the sky is blue
Last Line: And I watch it in mandela
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


AND SWEET SMELL OF DUST DEFEATED, by UNKNOWN+289    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clouds are contrasts to the sky
Last Line: And sweet smell of dust defeated
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


AND WORTHY SONS OF THE LAND, by UNKNOWN+288    Poem Source                    
First Line: Distended stomachs %of our children
Last Line: Their beings %torn asunder
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


ANNEALED MICROPOLIS, by COSMO PIETERSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our karroo now has midwinter as its heart
Last Line: Annulling and healing cold drought, in november
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


ANOTHER DAY (FOR BRAM FISCHER), by HUGH LEWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was like any other day
Last Line: Like any other day
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


ANTHEM FOR A NEW DAY, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've been woken mornings
Last Line: If I'd ask you to write the symphony
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


ASSEVERATIONS, by ARTHUR NORTJE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fire will not ask me to make its bed
Last Line: There is never work without resistance
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


ASYLUM, by BREYTEN BREYTENBACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: At first those closest to you shot holes in you
Last Line: Only with love as the body for your death
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


AT A FUNERAL, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black, green and gold at sunset; pageantry
Last Line: Better that we should die, than that we should lie down
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


AT LANSDOWNE BRIDGE, by ARTHUR NORTJE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the whoosh of doors slid shut
Last Line: Cornering, holds it in spidery light
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


AT THE DAWN I SAW AFRICA, by JOHN MATSHIKZAI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Today I have died
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


AUTOPSY, by ARTHUR NORTJE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My teachers are dead men. I was too young
Last Line: Has infinite possibilities no longer
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


BAREFOOT BLACKMAN, by UNKNOWN+286    Poem Source                    
First Line: Man of humble origin
Last Line: Of empire %crumble
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


BEAST IN THE SOUTH, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At last the beast that moved south
Last Line: Had hunted down to his den
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; South Africa


BEFORE INTERROGATION, by UNKNOWN+286    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their triumph when landing him
Last Line: They are taught to jump out %before interrogation
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


BEHIND A BARRED WINDOW, by HUGH LEWIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: High %very high
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


BIDING TIME, by UNKNOWN+288    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Building a certain future
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


BOY ON A SWING, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slowly he moves
Last Line: Why was my father jailed?
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


BUILDING A FUTURE, by UNKNOWN+288    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is no lament
Last Line: On the hard rock %of time
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


CATENA, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pray you, remember them
Last Line: Father grieving %mothers weeping %bodies of children torn and bleeding %pray, remember them: %we rem
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): Africa - Neocolonialism; South Africa - Apartheid; Soweto, South Africa


CHILD OF ISANDHLWANA (FOR SOLOMON MAHLANGU), by UNKNOWN+286    Poem Source                    
First Line: In scaffold's chill shadow
Last Line: By arm as resolute as mandela's
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


CHILD OF THE CRISIS, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To know our sorrow %is to know our joy
Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


CHILD WHO WAS SHOT DEAD BY SOLDIERS IN NYANGA, by INGRID JONKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The child is not dead
Last Line: The child grown to a giant travels through the whole world %without a pass
Subject(s): South Africa - Apartheid


CITY JOHANNESBURG, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This way I salute you:
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


CITY JOHANNESBURG, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This way I salute you:
Last Line: Jo'burg city, johannesburg, jo'burg city.
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


CITY OF LONDON PROFIT MAN, by UNKNOWN+286    Poem Source                    
First Line: City gent %money gent
Last Line: To greed - %pop!
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


COSMOS IN LONDON, by ARTHUR NORTJE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaning over the wall at trafalgar square
Last Line: The rat-toothed sea eats rock, and who escapes %a lover's quarrel will never rest his roots
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


COUNTERPOINT OF MARCHING FEET, by BARRY FEINBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: We will %remember durban
Last Line: When the sun ignites %above that town
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


DEATH OF A MILITANT (FOR JOSEPH 'MKHUTHUZI' MDLULI), by UNKNOWN+286    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was a broad, powerfully-made man
Last Line: He shall be avenged!
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


DEATH ON A GOLD MINE, by LINDIWE MABUZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: After centuries of dead examples
Last Line: In our continuous stream %of ripe blood
Subject(s): Mines And Miners; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


DIAMOND CUTTERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: However legendary %the stone is still a stone
Last Line: And know that africa %will yield you no more
Subject(s): Diamonds; South Africa


DUSK, by VICTOR MOTAPANYANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dusk goads my mind
Last Line: The everlasting spring of struggle - %patience, perserverance and success
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


EMBERS OF SOWETO, by UNKNOWN+286    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of the crucible %warrior army of new age
Last Line: The cry vrystaat! Dries on assassin's lips
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


EMBRACING EXILE, by LINDIWE MABUZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes %we drift
Last Line: High on its sunlit crest %of awesome beauty
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


ENDURANCE: 5, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we shook hands in the athenian dusk
Last Line: And the dark enclosure of wire %whose barbs are buried in my brain
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


EPITAPH OF LOVE (IN MEMORY OF SOLOMON MAHLANGU), by LINDIWE MABUZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where does the brave steel go
Last Line: To the unbroken rhythm %of surging dancing spears
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


EVERY ATOM OF HIS SUBSTANCE (A TRIBUTE TO JACK HODGSON), by BARRY FEINBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jack is here with us
Last Line: As the moon pilots the night %towards the teeth of the sun
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


FACES OF COMMITMENT, by LINDIWE MABUZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's been long now
Last Line: It also defines precisely %to bind us closer
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


FEARFUL RUINS, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the broken walls %bats hang away from the sun
Last Line: And cover their footsteps with desert dust
Subject(s): South Africa


FIREWING, by BREYTEN BREYTENBACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you think of your country
Last Line: Or we'll teach the pigs to climb trees
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


FIRST DAY AFTER THE WAR, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We heard the songs of a wedding party
Last Line: We saw our ancestors travelling tall on the horizon
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


FLIGHT OF THE SPEAR, by UNKNOWN+286    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let all behold
Last Line: You are as great as the mountains %of your country!
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


FOR A DEAD AFRICAN, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have no heroes and no wars
Last Line: The warriors who secured the final prize
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


FOR BRAM FISCHER, by DAVID+(2) EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This time has known no peace, not yet
Last Line: Men have honoured you %we too
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


FOR CHIEF, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So the old leonine heart is stilled
Last Line: And how shall I express my gratitude and love?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): Luthuli, Albert John (1898-1967); South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


FOR DON M. - BANNED, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a dry white season
Last Line: But seasons come to pass
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


FORGET NOT OUR MOTHERS, by ILVA MACKAY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Africa shall be free! %we shall free her!
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


FORWARD EVER!, by LINDIWE MABUZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like the bouncing sounds of seasons
Last Line: In the future's pounding shores
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


FREEDOM DAY SONG, by UNKNOWN+289    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each freedom day vorster
Last Line: Is your nightmare now
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


FUNERAL OF ANOTHER VICTIM, by UNKNOWN+287    Poem Source                    
First Line: Doornkop %black brawn thet we carry
Last Line: Yet like a sea %it never reaches
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


GOING TO WORK, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I go to work
Last Line: Rolling under mr. De wiel's oxwagon
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


GOLD-MINERS, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Towers rise to the skies %sounds echo their music
Last Line: Walking the deserted halls %we who are locked in the pits o f gold
Subject(s): Gold Mines And Miners; South Africa


GRAVEL IN MY THROAT, by UNKNOWN+288    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I'll be damned if I talk
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


GREAT ONES, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: And the great ones are here %they have sat before the fire
Last Line: They sing for us their poem %they narrate the story of our beginnings
Subject(s): South Africa


GROUP PHOTO FROM PRETORIA LOCAL .. FOURTH ANNIVERSARY, by JEREMY CRONIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: An uprooted tree leaves
Last Line: Mostly in short pants, %some of us barefoot
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


GROWING, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No! %this is not dying when the trees
Last Line: I'm teaching about the growing of things
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


GUERILLA, by COSMO PIETERSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sometimes feel a cold love burning
Last Line: Even and all our death must lead
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


GUERILLAS, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And I lie with my body curved to the light clay
Last Line: And a fierce will to smash an evil cruel thing
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


HANDCUFFS, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Handcuffs %have steel fangs
Last Line: Have hope, brother, %despair is for the defeated
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


HANG, by HUGH LEWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I once met a man
Last Line: Finish and klaar %a corpse
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


HELL, WELL, HEAVEN, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not know where I have been
Last Line: Was that thoko's voice? %hell, well, heavens!
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


HERITAGE OF LIBERATION, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since it was you who in all these thin seasons
Last Line: We bequeath to you the rays of morning
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


HOMECOOKED SUN-DRIED, by UNKNOWN+289    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beasts are preying in our land
Last Line: Monomanic %misanthropes
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


HOMEWARD BOUND, by ES'KIA MPHAHLELE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mountains that I like
Last Line: You need not look just the way I want
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


HOPE, by VICTOR MOTAPANYANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Night embers are burning
Last Line: Envelops our miserable lives
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


I AM THE EXILE, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I hear the cries and sirens
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


I FOUND SOUTH AFRICAN BREWERIES MOST HOSPITABLE, by KIT WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meat smell of blood in locked rooms I cannot smell it
Last Line: My only consideration is my family
Subject(s): South Africa


I REMEMBER SHARPEVILLE, by SIPHO SYDNEY SEPAMLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the 21st of march 1960
Last Line: Africa's priceless heritage to mankind
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


I WILL WAIT, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have tasted, ever so often
Last Line: Having been so flooded and so dry, %I wait
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


I, A FREEDOM FIGHTER, by UNKNOWN+288    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the guttural sounds of your fear
Last Line: Nay, to throw it in an endless pit
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


IF POETS MUST HAVE FLAGS, by DAVID+(2) EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They %ask for graceful poetry
Last Line: If we must have flags - %let them be always red
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


IN DETENTION, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK    Poem Source                    
First Line: He fell from the ninth floor
Last Line: He hung from a piece of soap while washing
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


IN LABOUR PRISONS CONJURED, by UNKNOWN+288    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the ripe-banana coloured sun
Last Line: I shall count aloud our blessings %in sacrifice
Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


IN MAN LIES ALL HIS REVOLUTION, by COSMO PIETERSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: February %each young man dead
Last Line: We swear %lie %basil
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


IN PRAISE OF ANCESTORS, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even now the forefathers still live
Last Line: We sing the anthems that celebrate their great eras %for in deed life does not begin with us
Subject(s): South Africa


INJUSTICE, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Me, I cry easily if you're hurt
Last Line: I'll never get used to nightmares %but often in dream of freedom
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


ISANDHLWANDA, by ZINJIVA NKONDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Isandhlwanda %mayihlome! The war-cry
Last Line: Let the spear sing
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


J.B. MARKS: AN EPITAPH, by BARRY FEINBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was a mountain of a man
Last Line: Let's look (as he once did) %to others among us!
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


JAMESON'S RIDE, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wrong! Is it wrong? Well, may be
Last Line: Than the crushings of all the rand.
Subject(s): Jameson, Leander Starr (1853-1917); Transvaal, South Africa


JOURNEY, by BREYTEN BREYTENBACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ringing out from our blue heavens
Last Line: Such is death this blood in our veins: %freedom or death
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


JUNE 16 YEAR OF THE SPEAR, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They call me freedomchild
Last Line: All over this land of mine
Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse
Subject(s): South Africa


LETTER FROM PRETORIA CENTRAL PRISON, by ARTHUR NORTJE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bell wakes me at 6 in the pale spring dawn
Last Line: Sorry there's no more space. But date your reply
Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


LETTER TO OLIVER TAMBO ON 75 ANNIVERSARY OF AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Too long, tambo, it's too long
Last Line: Blown this day by j.P. Clark from nigeria
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Angola; Freedom; South Africa


LIGHTS, by JOHN MATSHIKZAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: No looking back, no turning around, we've said
Last Line: Hard lights are flashing on
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


LILIAN NGOYI, by UNKNOWN+286    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lilian %I hear you are fifty-nine
Last Line: Should be beautiful %like you
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


LONG DROP, by UNKNOWN+286    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look down %from a headlong-height
Last Line: The murderers stand %above the abyss
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


LOVE EXILE LAND, by COSMO PIETERSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I shall not be sad
Last Line: And become one, and grow on forever
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


LOVEPOEM FROM PRISON, by DAVID+(2) EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It takes the dark to make me see
Last Line: I can absolve - if you will absolve in turn
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


LUTA CONTINUA (FOR DUMA NOKWE), by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If in the ritual delirium we felt
Last Line: His name is spear of the nation. Mayibuye!
Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


MANDELA'S SERMON, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blessed are the dehumanized
Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse
Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918); South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


MANIFESTO, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This then is our choice and task
Last Line: Change is going to come
Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


MASOCHISM, by ZINJIVA NKONDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Words - %powerful and rhetoric
Last Line: Enjoying painful excitement %masochism
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


MAYIBUYE IAFRICA, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the memories %of fatherless black children
Last Line: Translated memory rides %past and future alike
Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


ME AND THE RAIN, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight it rains
Last Line: The rain inspires me. %pula! Pula! Pula!
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


MEASURE FOR MEASURE, by SIPHO SYDNEY SEPAMLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go measure the distance from cape town to pretoria
Last Line: Let me tell you this %you'll never know how far I stand from you
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


MEN IN CHAINS, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The train stopped %at a country station
Last Line: The train went on its way to nowhere
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


METAMORPHOSIS, by CHRISTOPHER VAN WYK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hardly out of a napkin
Last Line: Now I understand
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


MIDSUMMER SLEEP AND ZIMBABWE BATTLEFIELD, by COSMO PIETERSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listening grey with seed-spill
Last Line: When morning its lustrousness on the pearl shell %now pour it
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


MOTHO KE MOTHO KA BATHO BABANG (A PERSON IS A PERSON BECAUSE OF OTHER, by JEREMY CRONIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By holding my mirror out of the window I see
Last Line: In my mirror, %a black fist
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


MOTIVATED TO DEATH, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We knew each other well
Last Line: Shall so die. %even in alex?
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


MY BROTHERS IN THE STREETS, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh you black boys
Last Line: It's black women who are crying
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


NATIVE'S LETTER, by ARTHUR NORTJE                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Habitable planets are unknown or too
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


NATIVE'S LETTER, by ARTHUR NORTJE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Habitable planets are unknown or too
Last Line: For some of us must storm the castles %some define the happening
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


NEAR-JOHANNESBURG BOY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My way is from woe to wonder
Last Line: We shall
Subject(s): South Africa


NEW AGE, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The questions which have always been here
Last Line: Are a worker's song of fidelity %to the land that mothered you
Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


NIGHTFALL IN SOWETO, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nightfall comes like %a dreaded disease
Last Line: Why can't it be daytime? %daytime for evermore?
Subject(s): Danger; Human Rights; Night; Soweto, South Africa


NIGHTSONG: CITY, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep well, my love, sleep well
Last Line: My sounds begin again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; South Africa - Apartheid; British Empire; England - Empire


NO CAUSE FOR ALARM, by BARRY FEINBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A warning %in confidence
Last Line: For the sake of us all, %and your farm
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


NO MORE STRANGERS, by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It were us, it is us
Last Line: We will tell freedom %we are no more strangers now
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


NOSTALGIA, by REBECCA MATLOU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nostalgia you are not repellent
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


NOZIZWE, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You were to be the centre of our dream
Last Line: By their sunken eyes your body was cursed %the moving river shall swallow it!
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Treason And Traitors


ON SOME SOUTH AFRICAN NOVELISTS, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You praise the firm restraint with which they write
Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; South Africa


ON SOME SOUTH AFRICAN NOVELISTS, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You praise the firm restraint with which they write
Last Line: But where's the bloody horse?
Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy
Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; South Africa


ON THE COMING VICTORY, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind the dark hills
Last Line: The long night lumbers grudingly %into the past
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


ON THE DEATH OF YOUNG GUERILLAS, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You called me, but I made no response in that night
Last Line: Could it be you are blind in your destruction?
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; War


ON THE SAME (ON SOME SOUTH AFRICAN NOVELISTS), by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far from the vulgar haunts of men
Last Line: And writing novels with her broom
Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy
Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; South Africa


OPEN LETTER, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We say what is lost
Last Line: Another way of defining relationships
Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


OUR HOME-COMING, by UNKNOWN+287    Poem Source                    
First Line: Feet flat against the streets
Last Line: The blood that we shall have shed
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


OX HOOVES TROD HEAVILY, by UNKNOWN+286    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The oval shape %of the globe
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


PLACE OF DREAMS, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a place %where the dream is dreaming us
Last Line: Someone, somewhere, is dreaming us, in the ruins
Subject(s): South Africa


POEM, by ES'KIA MPHAHLELE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is there that we can do or say
Last Line: Do pain will bleed and let the islands in
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


POEM FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our own shadows disappear at the feet of thousands
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women


POEM FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our own shadows disappear at the feet of thousands
Last Line: We are the ones we have been waiting for
Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women


POEM OF VENGEANCE, by UNKNOWN+286    Poem Source                    
First Line: Min, %big strong smiling mini
Last Line: As the precious gasps %escape into the pretoria air
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


POEMS ABOUT PRISON, SELS., by DENNIS BRUTUS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


POET AND GUERILLA, by DAVID+(2) EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In amsterdam the exiles meet
Last Line: Waits for the bullets and the song
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


POET'S DEATH IN OXFORD, by DAVID+(2) EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Die skolly boy digter is dood
Last Line: And you lie forever at the tip of the root
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


POLITICAL PRISONER, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I desired to talk
Last Line: Priding herself only in the shadows of yesterdays
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


POWERED TYPHOONS UNWIND SLOWLY, by UNKNOWN+289    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaving a day stunned with sun
Last Line: First a bite at white battalions %then on to breach the dam wall door
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


PURE WHITE, ONLY WHITE, by UNKNOWN+289    Poem Source                    
First Line: Immigrant workers at capetown's door
Last Line: Are grey faced or green
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, by ARTHUR NORTJE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The underbelly of the shark
Last Line: Uncouth will be the interrogations and bloodly the reprisals
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


RED OUR COLOUR, by UNKNOWN+286    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let's have poems %blood-red in colour
Last Line: Eats the decade
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


REMEMBER ME, by VICTOR MOTAPANYANE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Draw me closer to the dawn of freedom
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


RISE OF THE ANGRY GENERATION, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great eagle lifts it wings from the dream
Last Line: They are the abiding anger of the ancestral fathers
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


ROADGANG'S CRY, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pneumatic drills %roar like guns in a battle field
Last Line: Abelungu ngo'dam - whites are damned %basibiza ngo jim - they call is jim
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SACRIFICE, by UNKNOWN+287    Poem Source                    
First Line: We need money %to buy our birth
Last Line: Like cheap pants %in the wind
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SHARPEVILLE, by UNKNOWN+287    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sharp-evilled are these lanky seasons
Last Line: A rest from our own fears
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SIRENS, KNUCKLES, BOOTS, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sounds begin anew
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): Police States; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SISTERS IN ARMS, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The edge of our bed was a wide grid
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Death - Children; South Africa; Racism; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


SKIN SHIELD OUR PRIDE, by UNKNOWN+288    Poem Source                    
First Line: We, in umkhonto we sizwe
Last Line: To touch fingers with soviet workers
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SLAVE MAN, by ZINJIVA NKONDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The man slave %the shout of silence the rhythm of the hammer
Last Line: Well wait for the partisanship %of dilettantes
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SLAVE TROT, by ZINJIVA NKONDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trotting on the broken step
Last Line: If there is a shrug of a shoulder %who shall fail
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SOLDIER AT WAR, by REBECCA MATLOU    Poem Source                    
First Line: A soldier alone in reality I live
Last Line: We are the children of the spear
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SOLOMON MAHLANGU ADDRESSES HIS GAOLERS, by REBECCA MATLOU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't be puzzled that I smile
Last Line: I touch this darkness and give %meaning
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SONG (WE SING), by COSMO PIETERSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We sing our sons who have died red
Last Line: And the birth from the dust that is green we sing
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SONG FOR ILVA MACKAY AND MONGANE, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear now a sound of floods
Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SONG FOR ILVA MACKAY AND MONGANE, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear now a sound of floods
Last Line: We shall know each other by our bloodstains
Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SOUTH AFRICA SALUTES UZBEKISTAN, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We shall dream yes
Last Line: This fruit this love. %mayibuye!
Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNION, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not difficult to feel compassion
Last Line: Against the impregnable shadows of the moon over %the hatred
Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S.
Subject(s): Compassion; South Africa


SPEARS AND PLOUGHS!, by LINDIWE MABUZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We once asked steel
Last Line: Man's real friend
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SPIRIT OF BAMBATHA, by UNKNOWN+286    Poem Source                    
First Line: We will meet
Last Line: When the nation is free
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


STANDING ARMED ON OUR OWN GROUND, by BARRY FEINBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Remember the agony years
Last Line: And cost the sacred path %from casualty to liberty
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


STATUE TREATMENT, by BARRY FEINBERG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The hate is held %an idea with fury kept
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


STORM WITHIN, by REBECCA MATLOU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The storm within you mother
Last Line: With the swoop of your backside
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


STUDIOUS HIGH-SCHOOL BOY HE LOOKED, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In a maniac world he was safe
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SURPRISINGLY SINGING, by BARRY FEINBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: While whites %on sabbath greens
Last Line: Surprisingly %singing
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


SWORD EULOGIZING ITSELF AFTER A MASSACRE, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the skills of broken men I was moulded
Last Line: The shadows of the dead haunted them %tearing their minds t o the voices of the innocent
Subject(s): South Africa


TEN TARGETS REEL UNDER RAGE OF VISION, by BARRY FEINBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: After years of bruising loads
Last Line: His eyes blaze down dead-still barrel, %ten targets reel under rage of vision
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


TENDING HATE, by UNKNOWN+288    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look at me
Last Line: And the child-soldiers are not avenged
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


THE NEAR-JOHANNESBURG BOY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My way is from woe to wonder
Subject(s): South Africa


THE SONG OF THE CITIES, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Royal and dower-royal, I the queen
Last Line: To seek the happy isles!
Subject(s): Auckland, New Zealand; Bombay, India; Brisbane, Australia; Calcutta, India; Cape Town, South Africa; Cities; Halifax, Canada; Hobart, Tasmania; Hong-kong; Madras, India; Melbourne, Australia; Montreal, Canada; Quebec, Canada; Rangoon, Myanmar (burma); Si


THERE IS A PIG, by UNKNOWN+287    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Where no fish enjoys a bath
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


THERE WAS A GIRL, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A girl in a print dress, once, they say
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


THIS DAY, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like any other day I came home
Last Line: Sang the hymn, our hymn, the song of liberty
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


THIS IS JOHNNY, by UNKNOWN+289    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of an amber hue
Last Line: From shifting sands, south, %three thousand miles
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


THIS PATH, by REBECCA MATLOU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Child of the soil
Last Line: And bid the sod to seed freedom
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


THOUGHT ON JUNE 26, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Was I wrong when I thought
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


TO HAVE RESPITE - AFTER THE FIGHT, by UNKNOWN+288    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish someone kind can shout: 'coward'
Last Line: To have respite
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


TO THE MILLONS HUNGRY, by UNKNOWN+288    Poem Source                    
Last Line: As the hawk the sky %thou the land
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


TO THOSE WHO PERSUADE US, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our sincerity %in action
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


TO WHITE SOUTH AFRICA, by COSMO PIETERSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: If, when your walk around the cape's flat sands
Last Line: You're blind to, ten miles from your eyes, stark misery
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


TODAY IN PRISON, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And those who will do the much %that still needs to be done
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


TOUCH, by HUGH LEWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I get out
Last Line: Here I am %please touch me
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


TOWNSHIP TERROR, by UNKNOWN+287    Poem Source                    
First Line: The nightly fear
Last Line: Sad tears of marijuana %onto the earth
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


TRANSVAAL MORNING, by WILLIAM PLOMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sudden waking when a saffron glare
Subject(s): Morning; Transvaal, South Africa


TRIBUTE FOR STEVE BIKO, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dusty roads
Last Line: Even if they robbed him of his life
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): Biko, Steve (1946-1977); South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


UNFINISHED ADVENTURE', by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not by the same route, our return
Last Line: Certain, by such magic our triumph is assured
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


VENGEANCE, by MAZISI KUNENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: How would it be is I came in the night
Last Line: Witnessing the explosions of our revenge
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Vengeance


WE FOUND COMMON SONG, by BARRY FEINBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Testing solidarity %in tashkent
Last Line: And our victories %soon to be celebrated!
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


WEDDING, by HUGH LEWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Solly nathee %stood alone
Last Line: Stood on the koppie overlooking his home %alone
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


WHAT'S IN THIS BLACK 'SHIT', by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not the steaming little rot
Last Line: That's what's in this black 'shit'
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


WHEN LIGHTS GO OUT (FOR SOME WHO ARE IN SOUTH AFRICAN JAILS), by MONGANE WALLY SEROTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is with the shadows of night
Last Line: Can you hear the footsteps
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


WHERE NO SEED BORE FRUIT BEFORE, by BARRY FEINBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In an authorized ghetto
Last Line: And seeds take root %where no seed bore fruit before
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


WOMEN'S DAY SONG, by UNKNOWN+289    Poem Source                    
First Line: Celebrate our women in campaigns
Last Line: To celebrate freedom %and to honour women's day
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women


WORKING, by UNKNOWN+288    Poem Source                    
First Line: Working %to drink full
Last Line: To know %dignity
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement


YOU NORTHAMERICAN POETS, by SARAH MENEFEE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Your government grant your shattered linguistics %in the glare of soweto and sharpeville
Subject(s): Politics; South Africa


YOUNG HEROES - I, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is very busy with his looking
Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement