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    what does not sink

    A MOXIE fave, Siphokazi Jonas, opened the 2021 SONA with this incredible poem. Siphokazi’s work is well-known for its realism and powerful messaging that tackles topics that give a voice to millions unable to expressive them. “My work gives us…

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    Self Loathing

    by mpumi mayisa It can’t just be that  It has to be more  Cause for investigation A full, clear inquiry  About the ugly beliefs  You neatly stitched onto Yourself, Or were they stitched onto You?   That might not be the …

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    i have never felt safe

    by chosen sunflower I have never felt safeespecially in places that we like to deem ‘secure’.Shops, Banks, the very place you are mean to call home.I have never felt safe. Living isn’t safe for who knows who is looking at…

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    July 2020 – Featured Artist

    By Rendani Nemakhavhani Rendani Nemakhavhani is an artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa and she is selling prints! She’s an incredible illustrator, art director and designer. She first got my attention with All Hail the Honey, “a series of photographs…

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    There is a man

    by audrey lewat – There is a man who lays in his bed at night and thinks that I could have been his saving grace. When he tosses and turns, in the early hours of the morning, he credits me…

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    The Cycles of Life

    by chosen sunflower – I would like to share with you, a few of my many names, I am Mbaliyekhethelo and it means chosen flower. I am one person with many personalities that come out when I write, draw, speak…

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    The Japanese Flowers

    by Lily Paulus Once upon a time in a land like no other, lived three kings… Triton, Blaze and Phanes. They each had one daughter. Triton’s daughter Lily, the Princess of Water. Blaze’s daughter Lilac, the Princess of Fire and…

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    Alive

    By Tshepo Jamillah Moyo   You are sunshine yellow. The lightness in the air. The little bit of scent the breeze carries in spring. You’re the skirts that bellow. The glowing skin. The dreadlock that does what it wants. You’re the…