Ndaba Sibanda’s two poems


The Urge


when the sleepy farmer’s ears

were indulged by the rustlings

of the wind and the pattering

of the rain, did her eyes peel in

anticipation of a bumper harvest?

when she had borrowed books

from the nearby library did

she feel the urge to crawl

back into bed and read

all day long?

Kicks And Miskicks

 

the ball rolled to a beautiful beach

as if to cool off from harmful headbutts,

and maddening and muddy miskicks!


Hailing from Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, Ndaba Sibanda is a poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer who has a passion for themes and topics around conservation, nature, development and justice. A three-time Pushcart, National Arts Merit Awards, Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize and the Best of the Net Prose nominee, Sibanda`s book Notes, Themes, Things And Other Things: Confronting Controversies, Contradictions And Indoctrinations was considered for The 2019 Restless Book Prize for New Immigrant Writing in Nonfiction. Ndaba`s novel Cabinet Meetings: Of Big And Small Preys was considered for The Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2018. His five titles are on the Barnes and Noble list of 2024 Best books. 

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