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    Writings on My Soul
    Writings on My Soul
    Writings on My Soul
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    Writings on My Soul

    By Fungai O Maboreke

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    Its about word manipulation
    Through lyrical fornication.
    To speak about:
    the faces and places
    I have seen and been.
    the people I meet and greet,
    through dating, mating, relating
    about living amongst forests and speaking to trees
    listening to the ocean and feeling the winds cool breeze
    its about humanity, social justice and peace
    about balancing difference through wisdom and mentality
    of freedom and equality.
    Between man and woman,
    white or black
    about ethos and ethics.
    when we heed to biased silent voices
    we become products of those choices
    prisoners of our selfish vices..
    its about this lifes ups and
    those rock bottom downs
    through genuine, forced smiles and beyond frowns
    This is a celebration of my life, others and more.
    Through love, pain, life death.
    Simply, the writings on my soul.

    The spirits do speak to me, sometimes!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateNov 23, 2016
    ISBN9781524620448
    Writings on My Soul
    Author

    Fungai O Maboreke

    I am Zambian by birth, Zimbabwean by decent, British by colonization and American by naturalization. This book is a collective poetic account of my joys, fears and sorrows, a direct influence from the places and faces I’ve been and seen.

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      Writings on My Soul - Fungai O Maboreke

      WRITINGS

      ON MY

      Soul

      FUNGAI O MABOREKE

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      Phone: 1 (800) 839-8640

      © 2016 Fungai O Maboreke. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 11/21/2016

      ISBN: 978-1-5246-2046-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5246-2045-5 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5246-2044-8 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2016911966

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      Contents

      About the Author

      Colonial hangover

      Awake, Zimbabwe, Awake

      Selfish gods

      Chimurenga! Lament for Baba

      Some Freedom

      Dinner Is Served Mr President

      In This Together

      I Tip My Heart To You Achebe

      Madiba

      For Jayne Cortez

      I.W.O.M.D

      Writings On My Soul

      His Mother

      Music

      Space

      Sea Girt’ song

      The Subway Blues

      Africa My Child

      Paint Me Africa

      Tell My Story

      Spring

      Wind

      Vanity In Love

      Stolen Moments

      Stolen Moments in Time

      You Make Me Smile…

      Before The Sun

      Touch of love

      Beauty in Youth

      Today

      I am not….

      Some Friends

      Evolution

      Dipuo Mkiza

      Take a Second

      HANG MAN

      My Mind or What?

      Hurting and Healing

      Underneath Haiti’s Feet

      Omi

      Jack Daniels

      DOT

      This is the soil

      Moments of Grief

      Home

      Voice

      Dedicated to Zimbabwe and true freedom

      …whatever that means!

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      It’s about word manipulation

      Through lyrical fornication.

      To speak about:

      the faces and places

      I have seen and been.

      the people I meet and greet,

      through dating, mating, relating…

      about living amongst forests and speaking to trees

      listening to the ocean and feeling the winds cool breeze

      it’s about humanity, social justice and peace

      about balancing difference through wisdom and mentality

      of freedom and equality.

      Between man and woman,

      white or black

      about ethos and ethics.

      when we heed to biased silent voices

      we become products of those choices

      prisoners of our selfish vices..

      it’s about this life’s ups and

      those rock bottom downs

      through genuine, forced smiles and beyond frowns

      This is a celebration of my life, others’ and more….

      Through love, pain, life…… death.

      Simply, the writings on my soul.

      The spirits do speak to me, sometimes!

      COLONIAL HANGOVER

      They came the people with no knees.

      They rode on horseback and wore breeches.

      Out of their cracked, chapped lips,

      they spoke in tongues we could not interpret.

      Within their sun burnt cheeks,

      they harbored lies.

      Fire spitting weapons on their hips.

      Their dark stories yet, untold

      Their selfish motives still unknown.

      But whose intentions their pale faces shone.

      History began to unfold

      Mbuya Nehanda prophesized their invasion.

      Sekuru Kaguvi predicted their perversion.

      Our spirit mediums psyched their reign.

      The bards recited.

      Poems, an ode and a lament

      The hunters blew the trumpet

      A warrior’s song and dance,

      while the rest of us wept,

      They slept

      and they dreamt

      of endless pastures lined with our wealth,

      I suffer from a colonial hangover.

      Yesterday I imbued with my oppressor.

      He guzzled on my oil

      and binged in my gold mines.

      He lay sprawled within my fertile soil

      Before passing out, right in the middle of my fecund fields.

      Come daybreak,

      he rode for a day to the east.

      Where he sipped pots of my tanganda tea

      Within the dark Inyangani mountains.

      Then, he rode for another day to the north.

      There, he leisurely fished bream at Lake Kariba

      At dawn he headed west

      And basked within the magnificent Mosi – O – Tunya

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