Soul Seeds: Reality and Mental Inspiration Poetry
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As titled, "Soul Seeds" explores elemental functions of thought, reasoning and reality. It analyzes life and how each of the seeds sustains or defeats the soul and the need for personal discipline and appreciation. The imagery gathers in one basket the different emotions that paint a closest matter of attention to the mind state and collectedness. It is a reflection of situations. Scattered thoughts are thrown into an imagery of life through a natural psycho-philosophical analysis. The book seeks to promote nature, culture, love, kindness, forgiveness and spiritual freedom. The tone of each word is natural and expressive, to give a creative setting of inference and engage the mind that matters or bothers to. The book testifies that written art is created from any life circumstance.
Onalethuso Petruss Ntema
Born Onalethuso Buyile Petruss Ntema on February 27th, 1985 in Maun, Botswana (Africa). He is the 6th from a family of seven, and a descendant of the Wayeyi. The versatile dub-Poet and writer has interconnected nature with reasoning through spoken word. His rhetoric approach illustrates a personal self and self identity to an analytic science of emotions and the mind. His daughter’s (Deczybelle) inspiration has immensely crafted his art in poetry over the years and his cultured mother, Ndaruka Ntema is the yardstick to all talents he possesses. He holds a BA (Sociology) from the University of Botswana. The multi-talented Poet is a trained Applied Researcher and Entrepreneur with vast experience in Social and Community Development, Social Policing, Land and related Tenure Rights, Environment and Natural Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, Population Dynamics/ Trends and Socio-Economic Development, Land Policing/Administration, Families and Households, and African Social Thought. He is an arts and cultural activist.
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Soul Seeds - Onalethuso Petruss Ntema
Copyright © 2014 by Onalethuso Petruss Ntema.
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Contents
Dedication
African Mysteries of the Ancient Now
A Journal to My Person
A Letter to my Lover
A Little More Strength
A Little One Drop
A Wish
Am Inspired, Are you?
Are You Aware?
Be at Peace
Behold, Woman of my Dreams
Beyond the Soul
Blind Fear in my Eyes
Body and Soul
Brighter Day of Colors
Butterflies Look so Colorful
By Emotions of Unknown Voices
Can I be with you, O’ Love?
Child of Divine
Cold Feet
Colors of the Rainbow
Come Forth
Crisis
Cultures of Many but One
Dancing Toes
Days Are Numbered
Distant Other (The)
Distant Sands of the Kalahari
Dream Woman
Dry Cry
Dry Eyes
Early Morning
Fallen Leaves
Far Over
Fear
Gifted Souls
Golden Eyes
Gone Too Long
Gone Too Soon, Forever
Guidance from you Father
Hands of Hope
Her
Her name is Love
High like a Bird
Hold a Hand
Hope
Hope Knows No Strings
Humble Heart
Humble Pearl
I am
I’m the Seed
If All Persons were Shadowed
If and when I Die
If my Body
If Wishes Were
I Laugh so Greenly
I Miss You
I stood, I fallen, I stand again
Jealousy
Journey by the River
Journey to my Shadow
Journey to the Hills
Kill Me Not, O’ Love
Lament of a Loner
Lament of a Lover’s
Lead my Hand O’ Dear Life
Life
Life and the Giver
Life Seeds
Living without Fade
Lost Lover
Lost to Discover
Love is Growth
Life inspires me
Memories
My Eye in Shoshong
My Goal, My Future
My Hand Drew Me Nearer
Murderer
O’ Dear Pebble
O’ Father
Only Words can Say
Only Words Can Say (part 2)
Our Skills and Souls are Innovative Forces
Patterns of violence in silence
Patterns of Time
Peaceful Heart
Pearls of the Kalahari
Pebbles
Pieces of Life
Pieces of Life by the River
Precious Soul
Proverbs
Render me a Journey of Blessings
Rise again, when I fall
Rise to the Occasion
Saddest Smiles
Seasons of Life
Seeds of Principle
Seeds of Sin
Shackles of History
She is my Sunshine
Sigh of a Widow
Silent Dreamer
Silent Dreamer (part 2)
Silent words
Silent Words (part 2)
Sing Glory
Son of the Soil
Soul beads
Soul Child
Soul seeker (I’m that man)
Soul Seeds
Spoken word
Stones (of Africa)
Sunshine
Swollen Heart
Tales of a Midnight Dreamer
The Grass
The Lamp of Life
The Mind, a Necessity
The Monkey on the Tree Top
The Night of Pain
The Rains Are Almost
The River Walks its Journey
The Roots
The Skin
This Poem
Times like these
To a Brother
True Woman
Untold Memories
Weep not, Soul child
What am I?
What if? (Part 1)
What if? (Part 2)
What if? (Part 3)
What if? (Part 4)
What is possibility?
When the Night Comes
When Lions meet
Who’s Word?
Dedication
This poetry manuscript is dedicated to my daughter Deczybelle Daisy Shiloh and my mother Ndaruka Ntema, for their immense inspiration and urge. It is also a token of appreciation to my mentor Mr. Richard Kasaka Kashweeka and all, whose support, technical advises and motivation have been pivotal to this far. It is a special piece of art to my late brother Modisa Phillip Ntema and my mentor Anthony J. Berry (UK), may your souls find eternal peace and divinity.
Special thanks to Xlibris Publishing, UK.
African Mysteries of the Ancient Now
The rivers of the wilderness,
Polluted and looted by modern philosophy
Executed and looted with guns and enemy,
Powers of religion and heads of authority
Lovers of omission and error of reality,
Matters of no reason and mental insanity
Brothers of illusion and sisters of bitterness,
Where is the love that we all talk about?
Where is the love that we all talk about?
Where is the peace that we all walk about?
Where are the means that we all need the most?
The pieces are the only means to get us across
Matters of reality, focus on your sanity
Sold our souls to the graves of history,
Overthrew our culture to the grains of victims
Understood their culture but abused our systems,
Overthrew our nature, to the rules of a master
I wish I knew, what they decide to do,
Before they taught us too, to divide and rule
And they fought us too, to pride and fool,
Gone so fast to the few hands of many men
Told not last if we knew the very end,
O’ what a crisis, o’ what a problem!
But who is the culprit?
And who is to cast them?
Families, nations rise from the problem
Uplift one another, sooner than later, a matter for the better,
Rise Africa rise, stand tall alone!
Rise Africa rise, stand on your own!
The scramble of Africa (excessive land grabbing and remote land lordship), environmental and spiritual pollution by chemicalized sources of livelihoods, fashioned religion of personal interest persuasion and economic mobility, political and social disorganization through inter-community conflicts with weaponries of existence and space and the personal deterioration of the inner self. The world around has filtered a saturated kind, factored by fairies of the media (the movies, erotic magazines, horror articles with powerful sources, negative social networks and internet sources) and the globalized
behaviors of individual centeredness against the African context of the individual-family-community models. Centuries of torture and cultural degeneration have yielded a sub-cultural behavior of deviance and crime. Families and churches have all become the cages of violence, abuse and spiritual disorder. Africa has for ages been the resource for western economies; slavery, missionary trade/ socio-politico-economic and spiritual colonization, excessive mineral extraction and exportation to foreign few pockets while Africans battle for their last breath, modernized health systems and diseases. Still, the worst is yet to unfold.
A Journal to My Person
My eyes itch with dryness
My eyes fetch in dryness,
My lies drown to a distant ear
My fingers talk to an instant near,
My singers walk in song, singing
Their egos hawk in long, breathing,
My skin deepens in color
My wing weakens to a lover’s,
My mouth preys on green
My doubt snails on skin,
My heart beats me faster
My heart feeds me after,
My armor is the mind of person
My hammer is honored to a pattern,
My two eyed person surrounds me
My two legged person allows me,
My few naked eyes arouse me
My two naked eyes forget me than seen,
I knew, fainted, I rise beyond the dream
My senses dance to a tempo,
My senses tense to an arrow
My forces urge to a corner,
My closet edge to a loner
My heritage restores me,
My history endures me
My tongue seduces me,
My person rebukes me
My ear advances me,
My eyes still itch in dryness
My eyes still deep in kindness,
As I journal to my person
I curve a thought to my reason.
This piece explores the journey to an instant self. It gives matter to the retrospective person that allures their self
to the physical, mental and psychological, personal and spiritual senses of life. It is a self reflection. Life is within and upon all souls of them that live and fade away from the eyes and hearts of society, our interconnectedness with thought, reality, probability of possibility and forwardness. It is upon all shoulders and arms of truth (unearthing the hidden reasons and meanings of life and its hidden treasures), to the eyes of a believer. A peaceful mind is a peaceful heart, without which life is unnecessary. We all, in all, need to find peace within us, and amongst us all. Most of all, the little realities that we encounter, explore and discover are traces of our footprints and personalities.
A Letter to my Lover
Dear lover,
Your love is a gift I treasure,
With every passing day,
Like water,
Lowering its arms to submit to the natural need,
Your love I pursue to the lucky day,
Your smile falls the night, falling
My heart is calling for you only,
I feel so lonely, need you only,
Let love find its way through paths
Where lions fear to prey,
Find your way soon in all souls by the moon
Where stars shine to the full moon,
I shall fall
In love hard on my knees,
Soothingly crawl as I call
For your love beyond the means,
I