Black African Literature (Poems by two young African lady poets)

THE SUNSHINE
By Julia Lithebe

The sun rises and shines
Incorporating the happiness of the day
Happiness reflecting in everything
It’s shining in my eyes
It’s shining refulgent every single day

The sun rises gloriously like it’s the first time
Reminiscent of a new baby
Look outside; hark, it’s shining!
Happiness radiates throughout the world
Basking in the glow of the sun

The sun shines all over
Incandescent the world over
Even a candle brings light
Meagre compared with magnificence of the sun
Radiating all over the nation

People are looking for the brightness
The radiance of the comely sun
Appreciate the beauty of the flowers
Indeed without the Sun’s glow
There is no life and future

The heat of the sun brings warmth
We living things bask in the light
Cavorting and gay under the light
Things are made Technicolor by the sun
Herein is the beauty of the sunshine!




MIGHTY EYES

By Neo Mvubu

Mighty eyes that see the troubles we live in
Mighty eyes that puff away their lives with miniature noses
Mighty eyes that drink away their futures
One two three glasses
And BAM
They destroy their potential

Mighty eyes with dreamless lives
Only knives cutting away prison walls
With hopes of freedom

Mighty eyes with grandmothers
In bedrooms
And babies in bushes

Mighty eyes steal lives
They kill
And worst of all
We ignore
And we find comfort in brutality