I registered on WordPress 5 years ago. It is truly wonderful to see familiar faces from back when I started. How far we have come. It also feels good to welcome new faces here too. Love is everywhere you look, it’s true.
Jot down words on a piece of paper. Start writing and see what happens to your life.
Wishing you good health and all the best in 2019 🌸
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2019.
Forgive her so that you can be yourself again.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2018.
“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.”
Alice Walker.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2018.
Each poem is a tiny surrender
A peace offering to you human
Something to slow me down
Long enough to remember you
Long enough to remember me
Home where we know that song.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2014.
Originally posted 28 November 2014.
The tender movement of goosebumps
To the winking awakening of my flesh
The bad itch of I will not surrender yet
Funny how itchy chooses a place
An urgent sensation I never invented
Oh the thrill of mad mad gratification
Madness out in a perfect sneeze yes
For the next irrational swelling.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2015.
Published 02.04.2014
Arm in arm in brown leather shoes
Strolling under misty autumn skies
Keeping to the mild golden pathways
Only the forgiving day demands of us.
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The loss of you sits perfectly
In the season of hardening
Learning what patience governs
The rhythm before I met you
For my life is finally mine.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2014.
Into the long invisible road ahead
Solitude and a long distance heart
I am here and you are by my side
Exactly where we are meant to be
Timing turned out perfect after all.
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Pillows and sheets quietly left behind
When most others sleep soft unevenly
Now expanding into fleeting inventions
Spinal breathing into silent electric fields
Life beyond the weight of consequence
Escaping the battleground of the souls
Gatherings in the endless dream streams
Briefly united through the darkest hours
Beyond undiscovered universal systems
Where time becomes even more elastic
Making seconds and years and centuries
Movie shaking the living and the beyond
To belong to places that always existed
Nothing will appear intangible over there
Repeating visits retracing ourselves again
And finally waking up to our personalities
Faintly remembering language and duty
Locating the angles of another new day.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2014.
We cross giant earth bridges
For life was never this divine
Never this wary of sacrifice
These edgy and neurotic soils
Each suspicion hidden in things
Unforgiven.
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Forests of dark coily hair jerseyed
Into the fabric of my immigrant life
Understanding what is my ground
Something that’s not yours to name.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2014.
Persistent afternoon pressure
Tears gathering and clinging
Consistent knotted thoughts
Trapped squeezing days until
Liquid relief sweetly bursts
Salty drops of unpunish me.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2014.
How many keep my soul
I swear I hear their sum
In one child’s screeching
That torturous life signal
An unmistakable pitch.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2015.
The tender movement of goosebumps
To the winking awakening of my flesh
The bad itch of I will not surrender yet
Funny how itchy chooses a place
An urgent sensation I never invented
Oh the thrill of mad mad gratification
Madness out in a perfect sneeze yes
For the next irrational swelling.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2014.
Without animosity
Without complexity
Without anxiety
Without possession
Without pressure
Without desire
Without time.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2014.
Up late at night
A strange animal
That has lost its wings.
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If we could see the evidence
I promised I would not adorn it
Or put it in a jar or many jars
And then start comparing jars
And then selling jars of hurt.
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Where do I push the hurt to
Where can I place it without it leaking
And stay there where I put it
Or will it travel back to its original place
What is its shape, size and colour
I promise I will not adorn it.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2014.
And so I have spoken too soon
Your pressures in the sunlight
Long weekends overexposed
Arctic water drops from your hair
A dark rock eclipsing the sea
You insist on what you know
How do I move a stranded whale
I think you must keep your place.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2014.
Excuse me please
While I talk and sing in the shower
While I dance naked in the streets
While I swing from street lamp to street lamp
Pardon me please
While I unbutton my winter jacket
While I leave it on the pavement
While I surrender to the sun
Do forgive me please
While I giggle when I see you
While my heat and secrets meet
While I play the music louder
All apologies but
I can not hold my heart in
Thoughts alive in my tongue
My veins are laughing and speeding
Something unravels every moment
Because the Twin Peaks season is over
Am I this lucky up all night
Er det virkelig sant
Is it really true.
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Not all the people on planet earth
Eat potatoes and pasta
This is no reason to panic
This is no reason to be mad.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2014.
I scrub away your burden
Down the drain
Everything softens in the shower.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2014.
House pets hear the hungry
Bent over double in despair
We can botox instead of cry
While condoms blind the undecided
Let’s take pictures of ourselves
As though death is not for us
Let’s raise our glasses to fake plastic love.
Copyright © Nomzi Kumalo, 2014.
