Just a collection of poems I wrote when I have random bouts of inspiration.
I don't think this will be a problem, but please don't use them without permission. I'll be happy if you want to use them, just ask first.
A/N This is based on a poem called "Reapers in a mieliefield" by Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali. When I read the title, I thought it was referring to grim reapers and my mind immediately conjured this image of black hooded figures in a cornfield. I realised that reapers were just harvesters when we read the poem. It's fair to say that I was very disappointed. So...I decided to write my own version.
Link to Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali's poem: https://live.fundza.mobi/home/library/non-fiction-books/amagama-enkululeko/poem-reapers-in-a-mieliefield-by-oswald-mtshali/
(Mieliefields are cornfields)
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Stand at the edge of a mieliefield
As dawn breaks the delicate sky
And in the grey morning light
Soon you'll see the silver top
Of a sharpened scythe
Move with senseless grace
Between gold and dusted corn
Appear a dozen black hooded figures
Silhouettes of death
They stare back with empty eyes
And featureless faces
In eerie silence
They tell tales never uttered
Of lives never lived
They stand sadly still
As they bask in the weight of the world
And talk of battles fought'
Before time itself evolved
In peaceful whispers
They morn their sombre harvest
As the sky is touched with liquid orange
They fade
And remain nothing more
Than shadows of the imagination
Reapers in a mieliefield
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This is the image you get when searching "grim reaper in a cornfield". It's not what I imagined it would look like. I find it kind of funny though.
