Angela Bontle Ditumiso

Angela Bontle Ditumiso Poems

I guess it's losing all my words
All my thoughts
Crumbled up or neatly written
Lost to someone else
...

2.

I'm 24 revolutions
Around the sun
A lifetime growing
Under my mum's shelter
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Every drop like an icicle
Falling on my nakedness
Stabbing soft skin
I'm left with scars
...

4.

You're in some kind of prayer
Except you're praying to no God
But a human
Idol, you love him
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5.

Please don't touch me
I don't desire for you to die young
I know I look like an ordinary being
But under my skin I'm molten rock
...

Call me a fool
But I've mourned her into a decade
I'm told every strong emotion
Should in time expire
...

1. I have always hated dying things
So I wrote you
Bouquets of flowers instead
Sorry I gave you none of them
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I think
If Love be imposed
We all be slaves
No voice to say no
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Maybe loving from an empty vessel
Is what leaves us mangled
When the lover leaves
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I think part of being a poet
Is constantly pulling your heartstrings
Talking out loud
And yet poking your soul
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Once upon a time when love reigned
When the heart was pregnant with happiness
And with expectation that we will forever be
When we talked about ten years to come and saw us united as one
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I bet you called her stingy
Your mom, I bet when you were younger
You thought she had all the money
In the world
...

If perchance in spring
Our paths cross
And a relationship does sprout
Hold on to me
...

First time I took a pen and purged
What was my first two poems
I didn't have the urge
To write
...

15.

When the sun is sleeping
And the earth has finally slipped from its watchful eye
The earth can no longer pretend
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As you start your day
I pray
Everything goes your way
...

After time had hollowed me out
and left me as a huge depression
I would cast a net
To catch better days
...

Sometimes I'm small boat
Lost in a furious sea
fight fighting to clench me in its hand
and break me in half
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Sometimes when I look back
All the past sorrows gather in the hall of my chest
I become so heavy that I ache and I can't help but tear up
When going through pain
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The Best Poem Of Angela Bontle Ditumiso

What's Your Biggest Fear?

I guess it's losing all my words
All my thoughts
Crumbled up or neatly written
Lost to someone else
I get scared though there's a big
Trail of evidence
I have left on every platform
Showing I'm what I say I am
That I spat all these words
I claim as my own

What's your biggest fear?
I guess it's earning a place
Six feet under
Before I birth and present
My heirs to the world
I don't want to live a purposeless life
And words are all I live for

My biggest fear is
Being quiet with all these
Waves within me
I want people to surf
To swim
To dive
I want people to explore
The world I created

Even so I know
This fear
If I keep it
It's what will make me
Prematurely venture
Into the known world
A poet plunging to her death

What's your biggest fear?
Right now, nothing
I do have faith though
Faith that no one
Will kidnap my mind
Giving the world what's mine
Pretending it's theirs
And I'm ready
To face whatever
Will fall on my lap

Angela Bontle Ditumiso Comments

Madie Kern 02 December 2021

Hi, I am using one of your poems for a poetry anthology in english class about body image. I am using dear self and I just wanted to tell you that I think you are a fantastic poet.

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