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We have #ThursPoetry back this week thanks to Gourd of Consciousness Poetry.
Khulekani Ndlovu was born in Bulawayo and grew up in Marondera. She’s a poet who has mastered both stage and page poetry, an author who has written two short stories, a model nurtured by Jonathan Denga, Khulekani is also a motivational speaker and fashion designer and has previously won a trophy for best fashion work at high school.
Her first performance was in July 2017 at a school festival known as the SASSAF competition, where she got to District level on her debut as a poet.
In the same year Khulekani joined Poetry Planet, a group of thousands of international poets where she managed to feature in an anthology amongst a hundred other poets.
She has also performed with her mentor Albert Nyathi before delegates from all over Africa at the Innovation Africa Day 2018.
She has performed at Theatre in the Park before her mentor Virginia Phiri who has watched Khulekani perform at the Up in smoke poetry event in 2019.
Professor Fred Zindi also acknowledges her talent.
In 2019 Khulekani won a gold trophy for best ‘O level results at Marondera high school, with 12 A’s and a B.
Currently she’s doing Mathematics, Biology and Chemistry.
POEM
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Grey moon concentrate your diluted shadows
Black night
Scrub your dark curtains with ancient ink
Use whatever you have, rise and fight
here I come, the damsel in a golden armor
Armed with grace and truth.
From my glow you shall withdraw, and your malevolence I will overthrow, even my beauty brings warlords to their knees oracles fall flat on their faces.
A weapon of sophistication, a gift from mother nature.
My skin mirrors the sun, blinding the diamonds clinging in the sky
My purity composes the hymns of the northern majesties and neutralizes the venomous portions from deities.
On my head I balance a calabash of untainted dreams that I refill at the lake of hope and the slender bermuda streams.
I’m a picture of innocence, a frame of serenity
*Finger snaps*
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