Submissions by MphoLeteng (Mpho Leteng)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
The lust to write always catch me in resonate moments when I’m having most of me to myself, then to bleed out the pain of thinking hard I will pen down all that comes to mind and somebody will look at that and say its poetry.
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Oct 2013 8:14am
4th Oct 2013 8:14am
We are here
We know you long for that "just" comforting embrace;
The redundant echoes of your silent pleas beat us where it hurts,
But we have berthed your wailing hearts into our innefable cores,
We are here because you are there,
We are hurt when you are
We cry when you cry
Our ears are alerted to the sound of your clanging bells;
We are here to embrace you and confer love,
To save you and give you hope,
Because we are hurt when you are...
We cry when you cry
We are here to sing lullabies to your lilting brains;
We are here to be with...
The redundant echoes of your silent pleas beat us where it hurts,
But we have berthed your wailing hearts into our innefable cores,
We are here because you are there,
We are hurt when you are
We cry when you cry
Our ears are alerted to the sound of your clanging bells;
We are here to embrace you and confer love,
To save you and give you hope,
Because we are hurt when you are...
We cry when you cry
We are here to sing lullabies to your lilting brains;
We are here to be with...
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DARK POEM
Published
9th Aug 2013 10:48am
9th Aug 2013 10:48am
The Wail
If it's not all that the wind has wheft;
Heal your wailing hearts with what is left,
Find peace within you to forgive my bald soul.
Maybe the time I spent with you was too little,
Maybe you never understood me or I was much kittle,
But it was more than poetry we battered...
Surely a little bit of me you should have known.
Your funeral songs were too soon!
The wain of light has departed but I'm not lost,
I'm with God reciting poems over his croon,
Poems about the land that time forgot.
I will come for the sediments of my last poem;...
Heal your wailing hearts with what is left,
Find peace within you to forgive my bald soul.
Maybe the time I spent with you was too little,
Maybe you never understood me or I was much kittle,
But it was more than poetry we battered...
Surely a little bit of me you should have known.
Your funeral songs were too soon!
The wain of light has departed but I'm not lost,
I'm with God reciting poems over his croon,
Poems about the land that time forgot.
I will come for the sediments of my last poem;...
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DARK POEM
Published
6th May 2013 8:42am
6th May 2013 8:42am
Don't stand before my grave and weep
Don't stand before my grave and weep;
For like poetry I only die in theories of my sleep,
'Rather merry with aromatic culinary mead,
Until myriad tear-tribes flow from your eyes and bleed.
Don't stand before my grave and weep;
'Rather play for me an exotic night-peice,
I want to hear the symphathetic strings of that viol,
I want to feel the redundant harrows of that harp.
Like a Kachikau cactus blooming from peerage so be I,
Evergreen like myrtle so be me,
And that seed of overripeness shall burn at my sight...
As I...
For like poetry I only die in theories of my sleep,
'Rather merry with aromatic culinary mead,
Until myriad tear-tribes flow from your eyes and bleed.
Don't stand before my grave and weep;
'Rather play for me an exotic night-peice,
I want to hear the symphathetic strings of that viol,
I want to feel the redundant harrows of that harp.
Like a Kachikau cactus blooming from peerage so be I,
Evergreen like myrtle so be me,
And that seed of overripeness shall burn at my sight...
As I...
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
3rd May 2013 8:40am
3rd May 2013 8:40am
When my worlds find me
If you found me harrowing my wakes,
busy lifing myself to age;
Acknowledge that i have finally reached my stage
If you found me thirsty and raddled;
soulless dark mind gleaming over life's broken lines
Don't pester me!
I'm learning how to read my mind for to read i know not
Before life consigned me to break-point inhumanness,
I habitated the Basekgoma terrain for impossible decades
Now not only am I raking over the old coals,
I'm having most of me to myself
If you me somewhere
In a place somewhat heavenly and somehow...
busy lifing myself to age;
Acknowledge that i have finally reached my stage
If you found me thirsty and raddled;
soulless dark mind gleaming over life's broken lines
Don't pester me!
I'm learning how to read my mind for to read i know not
Before life consigned me to break-point inhumanness,
I habitated the Basekgoma terrain for impossible decades
Now not only am I raking over the old coals,
I'm having most of me to myself
If you me somewhere
In a place somewhat heavenly and somehow...
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd May 2013 8:35am
3rd May 2013 8:35am
Because I am a poet
While you segment that thin unleavened cake of oat-meal brother;
Because I am a poet...
I will brew a triolet with mnemonic rhymes
And pour it heavily down the crack before the beginning ends.
While you rest motionlessly...
Like a trampled weed in the middle of the jungle,
Because I am a poet...
I will sing lullabies to my lilting brain
I have grained poems for the next mid-lent sunday,
As you put in your oar for well rich,
Hopefully you'll find your which
Because I am a poet...
I have been to a future where poets are...
Because I am a poet...
I will brew a triolet with mnemonic rhymes
And pour it heavily down the crack before the beginning ends.
While you rest motionlessly...
Like a trampled weed in the middle of the jungle,
Because I am a poet...
I will sing lullabies to my lilting brain
I have grained poems for the next mid-lent sunday,
As you put in your oar for well rich,
Hopefully you'll find your which
Because I am a poet...
I have been to a future where poets are...
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
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STORY POEM
Published
13th Nov 2012 3:30pm
13th Nov 2012 3:30pm
hurled into the depths
cloaked in the dark waves of a Kachikau winter night;
the last faint gleam of hope glide,
scared out my wits, no one by my side,
who can i trust?
even my own shadow abondons me when i am in darkness!
My presumptous heart deceived me!
hurled me into depths deeper than sheol,
i have become psychologically lifeless
the path behind me is full of broken dreams.
death drenched my thoughts in red,
my soul is bald and filled with ashes of a mind burned to crisp,
the pain of my future has no cure!
a broken soul in pulsing pain,...
the last faint gleam of hope glide,
scared out my wits, no one by my side,
who can i trust?
even my own shadow abondons me when i am in darkness!
My presumptous heart deceived me!
hurled me into depths deeper than sheol,
i have become psychologically lifeless
the path behind me is full of broken dreams.
death drenched my thoughts in red,
my soul is bald and filled with ashes of a mind burned to crisp,
the pain of my future has no cure!
a broken soul in pulsing pain,...
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
13th Nov 2012 3:23pm
13th Nov 2012 3:23pm
the remnant of Leteng
When they imprisoned our minds into the grave...
among the dead we found breathing bones,
When they crucified our bright crude crave...
some of us died battling a way out
We rode over humps of pain to this far,
'However, long the night the dawn will break'
we broke the shells, they only heard the crepitate
now upon our house hopes precipitate
we've seen the silver lining,
Oree, the twins and mum have reason to stay smiling
I and Mogo have grown to be great authors
with the past, our past is past
among the dead we found breathing bones,
When they crucified our bright crude crave...
some of us died battling a way out
We rode over humps of pain to this far,
'However, long the night the dawn will break'
we broke the shells, they only heard the crepitate
now upon our house hopes precipitate
we've seen the silver lining,
Oree, the twins and mum have reason to stay smiling
I and Mogo have grown to be great authors
with the past, our past is past
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
27th Sep 2012 3:05pm
27th Sep 2012 3:05pm
fading
The day fell and night came;
In the dark i stood alone,
mind filled with prior thoughts of a red future, gleaming gold
A bleeding earth and crust fold!
The cold Kachikau winds recycled in to my nostrils the breath of the late me!
I saw the end of the world;
like a rose during the dry season the future was fading,
The walls we built were trembling down,
The rock of my salvation weathered and her spirit erouded.
The Kachikau horizons were levelled,
The times you were with me when i was with you were no more
a fire burned them to the depths...
In the dark i stood alone,
mind filled with prior thoughts of a red future, gleaming gold
A bleeding earth and crust fold!
The cold Kachikau winds recycled in to my nostrils the breath of the late me!
I saw the end of the world;
like a rose during the dry season the future was fading,
The walls we built were trembling down,
The rock of my salvation weathered and her spirit erouded.
The Kachikau horizons were levelled,
The times you were with me when i was with you were no more
a fire burned them to the depths...
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
27th Sep 2012 2:50pm
27th Sep 2012 2:50pm
when the earth bleeds
When the earth bleeds;
fights abound about like Aboriginals tales,
memories of words that abut prophecies unveil,
multitudes of no fixed abodes occupy psychiantric hospital beds...
living in pain waiting in vain,
life shattered and broken...
a shadow closing down the globe
when the earth bleeds!
we fall prey of destructive social evils
within the core of our hearts we feel "death will be better"
rather than "heaven will be better"
the acrid smell of worm worked corpses,
the sun bleeding out vestiges!
death...
fights abound about like Aboriginals tales,
memories of words that abut prophecies unveil,
multitudes of no fixed abodes occupy psychiantric hospital beds...
living in pain waiting in vain,
life shattered and broken...
a shadow closing down the globe
when the earth bleeds!
we fall prey of destructive social evils
within the core of our hearts we feel "death will be better"
rather than "heaven will be better"
the acrid smell of worm worked corpses,
the sun bleeding out vestiges!
death...
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
19th May 2012 3:20pm
19th May 2012 3:20pm
the night she died
a night full of heart aching memories;
a night thoughts drenched in black,
the ground exibiting it's daggers,ready to claim another victim
a sudden pause in the good days of our lives
she was lying there in adverse pain,
only tear drops were emanated by her internal agonised bellows,
thou we were born from the same womb
i did not know who she was,
neither did she know who i was!
i was told after ashes to ashes
i was told that she was my twin sister!
i was told she wentaway with a father i never met!
immense pain suddenly filled my...
a night thoughts drenched in black,
the ground exibiting it's daggers,ready to claim another victim
a sudden pause in the good days of our lives
she was lying there in adverse pain,
only tear drops were emanated by her internal agonised bellows,
thou we were born from the same womb
i did not know who she was,
neither did she know who i was!
i was told after ashes to ashes
i was told that she was my twin sister!
i was told she wentaway with a father i never met!
immense pain suddenly filled my...
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
18th May 2012 4:55pm
18th May 2012 4:55pm
she stood there....
she stood there with her bare face hanging outside;
mind dry as a bone,
she stood there teardrops slowly falling down her cheeks
in a logical sequence of one after the other
they have cut the ground from under her!
her burning impulses told a story never been told,
the comforting frame of words she touched was so cold,
deep,dark thoughts envaded her working memory;
so she stood there quite and motionless
she stood there hurt and full of avenging thoughts
they jabbed her mind like marriage vows that didn't last
they struck like lightining...
mind dry as a bone,
she stood there teardrops slowly falling down her cheeks
in a logical sequence of one after the other
they have cut the ground from under her!
her burning impulses told a story never been told,
the comforting frame of words she touched was so cold,
deep,dark thoughts envaded her working memory;
so she stood there quite and motionless
she stood there hurt and full of avenging thoughts
they jabbed her mind like marriage vows that didn't last
they struck like lightining...
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LOVE POEM
Published
7th May 2012 8:48am
7th May 2012 8:48am
within Hailing Distance
i heard your piercing scream;
you breezed my innefable core,
you stroke the center of my heart with bellows cold as a welldigger's ass
you put me though the mangle,
intergrated the intersection of our different state of existence
breathless in an unreal moment
i crumpled to the ground,
i crawled towards echoes of your vociferation
through the dead night i ran naked;
only to find you there no more!
i know you've long died Marry
and i've put your memories as a seal upon my heart
now that you came back for me
my soul is cleaved to...
you breezed my innefable core,
you stroke the center of my heart with bellows cold as a welldigger's ass
you put me though the mangle,
intergrated the intersection of our different state of existence
breathless in an unreal moment
i crumpled to the ground,
i crawled towards echoes of your vociferation
through the dead night i ran naked;
only to find you there no more!
i know you've long died Marry
and i've put your memories as a seal upon my heart
now that you came back for me
my soul is cleaved to...
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