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Subject: SOUTH AFRICA - ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT Matches Found: 171 ABAFAZI (WOMEN), by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 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'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 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'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'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 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 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'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's Biography Last Line: I hear the cries and sirens Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 THE COMING VICTORY, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source 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 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 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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: The sounds begin anew Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Police States; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement 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 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'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 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 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'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'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'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 TRIBUTE FOR STEVE BIKO, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source 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 YOUNG HEROES - I, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is very busy with his looking Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement |
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