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    Classical Touch Poetry Anthology
    Classical Touch Poetry Anthology
    Classical Touch Poetry Anthology
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    Classical Touch Poetry Anthology

    By Tanki Bernard Letjoi

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    Tanki Bernard Letjoi is a police officer with the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS). He has been in service for over twenty three years. His home is a village of Cana, situated in one of the most beautiful valleys ever found in the district of Berea. He is a holder of an Advanced Diploma in Project Management, a Bachelor of Arts in Human Behaviour, as well as a Master’s in Psychotherapy and Counselling, and has also undergone various trainings in HIV and Aids related spectra since 2004. Presently, he works at Katlehong Clinic, Maseru. As much as he enjoys reading, writing and farming, he also enjoys singing, and has recently started composing songs. He was born a Catholic and still one at heart; but he is now one of the followers of Father Petrus Johannes Masango, the Prophet, of St. John’s Apostolic Faith Mission.
    It’s a collection of poems by a man who is spellbound by every particle of the universe: the man who questions nature to provoke reason ... who sees the Mountain Kingdom (Lesotho) as the source of aspiration and exploration.
    The poems are for almost everyone, young and old alike, and have a cross-cultural appeal that can set a stage for every act.
    For the Africans, the poems extend more in terms of borrowing from the coffers of the African natural terrain and general atmosphere.
    The poems can also be informative and scholarly. For instance, they are rich with figures of speech and are varied in terms of style and type: be it odes, epics, sonnets, ballades, etc.
    Outstandingly, the poems are full of inspiration and motivation, and can make one’s day when feeling down and only seeing a mirage of boredom.
    The book transforms thoughts into words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTanki Bernard Letjoi
    Release dateJun 22, 2017
    ISBN9781370249251
    Classical Touch Poetry Anthology

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      Classical Touch Poetry Anthology - Tanki Bernard Letjoi

      DEDICATION

      This book is dedicated to my lovely wife, ‘M’akopano Emely Letjoi and my sister, ‘M’amothibeli Albertina Mojaje, as well as in memory of my late mother, ‘M’antaoleng Agnes Letjoi, my late brother and sister – Tsekiso Marius Letjoi and ‘M’athabang Justina Makume, respectively

      Contents

      Dedication

      Acknowledgement

      1. Moment of Truth

      2. Love-Cum-Music

      3. The Best of My Heart

      4. So Many Mountains to Climb

      5. Moshoeshoe’s Day

      6. No Rendezvous

      7. Be Smart

      8. There is a Time for Everything

      9. Try to Think

      10. A Home for Broken Hearts

      11. Fatal Attraction

      12. People No Longer People

      13. The Last Words to My Son

      14. My Sweetheart

      15. Music of the Blue

      16. Mother Africa

      17. Special Star

      18. Children of the Lost Jungles

      19. All Has Flown Away

      20. Dream of Dreams

      21. Indifference

      22. Trump Card

      23. The Greatest Nation of All

      24. The Journey of Life

      25. When Falling Rains Set in

      26. Pavements to Love

      27. Shades of Mystery

      28. Soldier of Soldiers

      29. Crazy Life

      30. Lobola

      31. Crazing Views

      32. The Flower

      33. Sense of Awareness

      34. Homeless Dreams

      35. Prayer for Lesotho

      36. When the Drum Beats

      37. Our Looted Bodies

      38. No Man: No Trouble

      39. Caught on the Spell

      40. A Gypsy

      41. Heroes’ Mission

      42. Curtains behind the Walls

      43. Vagabond Spirits

      44. Troubled Waters of Love

      45. Grief

      46. Thank You Lord

      47. August

      48. Woods

      49. Nothing to Give

      50. Sweet Roses

      51. The Power of Mind

      52. When the Night Comes

      53. When Love Dies Away

      54. Sweet

      55. Staircase to Laurels

      56. Far Distant Woods

      57. Plains of Wonderful Greens

      58. Words of Comfort

      59. Busy on the Schedule

      60. The Island of Breezes

      61. Summertime Marvels

      62. The Robin

      63. No Journey without a Spur

      64. On the Avenues to Freedom

      65. The Highway towards Unity

      66. Where Interchanges Meet

      67. Reality

      68. The Morning Star

      69. The Lovers’ Isle

      70. Refugee Blues

      71. Silent Wail

      72. The Valley of Heartbeats

      73. Lost African Lineaments

      74. Mantles of Harmony

      75. A Blanket of Clouds

      76. Gloom of Loneliness

      77. Refugees at Heart

      78. Spring of Aroma

      79. No Simple Stroll towards Freedom

      80. Desert of Oblivion

      81. The Stream of Melodies

      82. A Scene of Corruption

      83. The Hero

      84. The Boxer

      85. When Love Catches you

      86. Monolith of Beauty

      87. Different Motion

      88. Streets along Paradise Lawns

      89. The Hostage Gloom

      90. No More Ifs

      91. The Warrior

      92. Everything in Traffic

      93. Streaks of Hope

      94. Policeman

      95. Robin of the Morning

      96. Great Expectations

      97. Unrest

      98. The Straits of Democracy

      99. Flight

      100. To the Very Last Generation

      101. On that Bitter Day…

      102. Confusion and Stitches

      103. Dream Big: End It …!

      104. On their Royal Wedding

      105. Lesotho@50

      About the Poet

      Acknowledgement

      Special acknowledgement is made to a young lady, Maggie Magdalene Nomsa Nkofo, whose worth in regard to this book is outstanding and magnificent. With her support and scrupulous reading of some of the poems in this anthology, it made it possible for me to revise the titles of a few poems. Even some additional lines and corrections have been made due to her influence. Thank you lady, may God bless you and your family!

      1. Moment of Truth

      The glaring and odorous lies

      That go perching on the shoulders of air

      And squeezing through the trenches of a heart –

      Still sailing across the channels of a mind,

      All need be interred in the vault

      Of the hungry and scowling ghouls;

      Where the corses upon the burning ghauts

      Beguile the ghouls that seem like starvelings –

      The ones that always stare

      At the cremation of our throttled truth –

      Our ghastly smiles

      Only twisted when hatred knocks on the doors, of

      Our only chests lorn in the valley of misery.

      It’s over our own oases of open oils of understanding

      To scour our latent kind of harmony

      Which dwells deep in our hate-enslaved hearts:

      The truth of ours should give a gloss,

      Against the beams of the sunrise rays …

      As the minds should be the citadels to warm our love

      For Him! The Godhead beyond the firmament

      To boast of His true-blue flock,

      Which feeds on the pastures of loyalty –

      Having ceased to be the rumbustious scoundrels;

      Always fleet-footed to chase some bits of peace

      That beetle the overhead scintillating Milky Way,

      And sending no signals of indifference

      When the Great Bear cast out the light

      Upon their truth-covered thoughts –

      For their love to grow wings,

      Much alike the plighted lovers!

      2. Love-Cum-Music

      A mere pied dove that steals my love;

      That has got a stronghold to shield

      My passion from spilling over –

      For it can’t be picked, when it’s spilled!

      The one who needs continuous turns

      Of my love coils to coil around

      Her heart that needs some sweet music

      To go through her – around ‘n’ around!

      You eagles, circle a concert overhead.

      When I beat up the drums for her,

      Just only do nothing at all,

      Stare just in wonder – only stare …

      She who but needs a daily rhythm –

      That really for sure and always

      Should rake through her corners of mind

      To wake up her lonesome senses.

      When music of the spheres erupts,

      The organ strings that go jostling

      With dropping mirth from the azure,

      Swinge ev’n a heart of a suckling –

      When drops of bliss smear each spirit,

      That yearns for such a joyous glee

      Which rides and rides upon the sphere,

      With no moment for it to flee!

      Just

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