A.ll of this life that slips away
I.n vain every single day
D.eath becomes a faceless statistic
S.avagely going ballistic.
A.nyone can be infected
I.f you’re lucky you won’t be rejected -
D.oggedly denying the reality
S.eems to be their specialty.
A.ll over words are spewed
I.gnorant opinions that are skewed
D.efending useless believes and views:
S.olemn leaders grappling without clues.
A.nd still the nameless are consumed
I.nternationally the outcry is resumed
D.eafening and yet some refuse to hear
S.aying prayers that are born from fear.
H.umanity sheds another silent tear
I.nnumerable souls wither as their time draws near while
V.anity clouds what should be clear.
(World AIDS day. 01/12/2003
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In primary school in the 1970’s I wrote a composition for the June examination that was read to the assembled school by the principal on the day that we returned after the holidays. As I listened I realised that I had written it and I began to notice the reactions of my peers. At that moment I knew that this was what I was meant to do.
Since then I have honed my craft on the streets and in the gutters; in the ghetto and the ghetto hotels; with passion and certifiable insanity. One of my first short stories won a competition in a daily newspaper while I was still at school and my poetry has been published in various compilations and anthologies as well as the African arts and culture magazine Rootz.
I have been writing professionally for theatre since 1996 when I was commissioned to write a children’s play for the North West Cultural Calabash Festival. My first feature play was the only South African entrant to be short-listed for the 1997 British Council International New Playwright Competition. I have since worked on various documentaries and stage productions including an original adaptation of Can Themba’s short story ‘The Suit’, as well as the pop-opera ‘Torong – A place to dream’ which I wrote, composed and directed. My theatre credits include writing and co-directing the musical ‘Maloba – Memoirs of a Nation’, ‘Waiting’ which I also produced and premiered at the National Arts Festival in 2008, ‘Live rAGE’ which was a birthday tribute to the poet and writer James Matthews and ‘Progres’ inspired by the life and work of Ken Saro-Wiwa.
I have written for television and radio as well as various South African newspapers and magazines and I am currently working on my debut novel entitled ‘A Tale of Extra-Ordinary Madness’ while co-ordinating an arts project at an underprivileged primary school in the Eastern Cape.
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- God alMikey
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- Playwright, poet, creative writing facilitator, cultural activist, social commentator, polemist.
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