It was just another praying through of the Lord's prayer... You know the deal, 'Our Father, who are in heaven, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, you know, find the rhythm blah blah blah lips moving to recreate words long worn into you in some ancient school assembly probably blah blah blah' WAIT, WHAT? There is was, middle of the prayer, Matthew 6, verse 11: 11 Give us today our daily bread. That's surely [...]
good intentions i see you on the street corner cold and confused and want to reach out a hand to lift you up until that moment i realise that to properly do so i might need to take a step down [For more of my shorter poems, click here]
i sit crushed at my table... the inequality and shameless poverty i drive past each and every day rips open my chest grabs my beating heart and begins to squeeze... completely overwhelming me as i signal to the waitress to bring me another Yirgacheffe pour-over [For more Micropoetry that i have been trying out this year, click here]
a guest post by my friend Sindile Mlingo Vabaza responding to a much made comment on this blog recently about people in poverty, although typically been aimed at black people, having too many babies as one of the main factors of their continued impoverishment: There are a lot of people out there who are putting up 'family planning' as the solution to certain societal ills in the country. I want to assert that this is [...]
Hi, my name is Avuyile Tu, I hail from Khayelitsha, originally from the Eastern Cape from a small town called Lady Frere. I studied a B Com degree from the University of the Western Cape, majored in Economics and management. Currently I am employed as an assistant finance manager here in Cape Town. I am the first born son at home; I am a Christian, passionate about Christ and serving my people. I write poetry [...]
what happened yesterday with the bomb explosions after the Boston Marathon that up til now have claimed three lives and injured well over 100 people [with ten or more amputations that occurred with some of the survivors] was a tragedy. any time someone is killed it is a tragic thing and more so because this was something that was ruthlessly planned and carried out. and Facebook knew about it - scrolling down my news feed [...]
So last night there was a game of football/soccer between Manchester United [soccer is one of my least supported sports but if i have ever supported a team it has been Manchester United... and then locally Kaizer Chiefs back in the day when Dr Khumalo played and i always back Bafana!] and Real Madrid in the Champion's League. Real Madrid won 2-1 but of course there was "that red card incident" with Nani getting sent [...]
my friend and bossman, Darin, shared some stuff on Saturday's Simple Way Conversations day on the theme of stewarding your treasures [your money and things] well in the world we live in... one really interesting thing he said which made me think was when he asked about the definition of poverty and said that often poverty has been defined as THE LACK OF STUFF? that's true, right? i'm sure most of us would agree... but [...]
i imagine this is a much bigger post or discussion than what will fit in here but let's get it started... a soccer player [who was worth something like 40 million something - does it really matter when you hit 40 million whether the next word is pounds, euros or dollars?] scores a goal. a hundred facebook statuses [stati?] read something along the lines of 'amazing goal - so worth the money spent' i get [...]
and coffee... met some friends for coffee at the BP to celebrate the end of the week which has been interesting - quite a stressful time in terms of packing up the house and finishing off transcription work and trying to organise visas and a bunch of other stuff but i think that's cool in a way - we don't get to always choose when life happens to us - and while this live below [...]