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“I’m living according to the law of hand outs, I’m living under the law of charity, I’m living under the law of being used.”

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Author:Tapiwanaishe Pamacheche

“Nations are first written in ink before they are defended in blood.”

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Book:The Ink and Epoch That Build Nations!: Poems that Till the Mind, Sow Conscience, and Harvest a Nation

Source: The Ink and Epoch That Build Nations!: Poems that Till the Mind, Sow Conscience, and Harvest a Nation

“Hannah do you even know the meaning of evening silences? Watching the ebb, the halo hanging upon your eyes? Hannah do we even know the love we twined in those pines? We walked with veils like of virgin shyness? Those constellation, those stars that gleam and thrill, those seamless touches, those eyes, shyness and sheen, those Hannah, those nights painted by Vincent Van Gogh, those nights I took you in my arms and held you like an eg”

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Book:Hannah Cherub: Hannah cherub

Source: Hannah Cherub: Hannah cherub

“A chief who visits the river at the kiss of the sun will be pleased by the songs of the bird. A chief who visits the river at noon will marry many wives. A chief who visits the river at night will hear the ancestors speaking and his skin tingling.”

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Author:Tapiwanaishe Pamacheche

“I’m black that’s what runs deep inside my soul. I’m Nile that what makes me perennial I’m Okavango that’s what makes me mysterious I’m the lake Tanganyika thus what bellows deep inside I’m black,I’m deep jet I’m Chinhoyi thus what makes me constant I’m Kalahari thus what makes me amazing I’m black as an onyx I’m coal that’s what makes me thermal”

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Author:Tapiwanaishe Pamacheche

“My unshaded skin. Snarled and marked of a scoundrel. Scorned and conned. Birds sing in a fair sun, whistles of seas that used to be foreign. My unshaven skin, whispers of owls at night still sing old rivers. Ribs rubbed and punched still sores. Mistakes of songs and words that still linger over me. Marred and murdered death still murmurs.”

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Author:Tapiwanaishe Pamacheche

“Are we above or is just another story? Is it human nature? Is it just a norm? Is it segregation causing these deadly wars? Is poverty leading us to the stagnant sea of prostitution? Is the pauperism playing a role in tarnishing our image? Is paucity injecting a lethal poison in our morals? Is penury eating civilization and destroying families? Is the prison meant for classes in the society? Is bribery a new Godly law? Are drugs manufactured for us to numb the pain? Are we scared of reality? Is it true that fathers are disappearing in the society podium? Is it true that the lack of manhood is the root of all question marks? Is it true that the adequate fathers in the society are destroying the sanity of children? Is it true that our uncontrollable passions are born because we lack a muse”

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Author:Tapiwanaishe Pamacheche

“I don't go outside anymore, I'm afraid I'll crumble if I see you again.”

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Book:These Things

Source: These Things

“I remember how your eyes tore through me like a knife, how I fell apart each time you smiled at me, how I crumbled when you touched me.”

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Book:These Things

Source: These Things

“Your love is the blanket to my shivering fears and insecurities.”

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Book:These Things

Source: These Things

“Can you define the colour of my pigment? Can you write a story about yourself? Can you spell your mother’s name? Do you know the skulls quiver? Depth of colour”

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Author:Tapiwanaishe Pamacheche