Tendekai Mugonda is one of modern poets who deals with painting poetry with his inner depth of understanding the world surrounding him. Mugonda started poetry when he was 14 years old and started really penning them down when he was 21 years old. he was moved by the saying that if you cannot be a poet be the poem. Tendekai chose to be come a poem and he believe that God is the greatest poet ever and he the greatest poem ever written.Grew up in Manicaland the richest province in Zimbabwe.He is also studying social work with Bindura University of Science Education. Mugonda's poetry is influenced by his beliefs and life experiences.
Beautiful yet poisonous.
Wonderful yet dangerous.
Rare yet famous.
She is a beauty a goddess.
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Priceless artifacts,
Are only,
Replaceable with another,
More worth artifact which,
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In a life you opt to be a king yet enslaved by circumstances beyond
your control.
were you are forced to live in yesterday and forget tomorrow.
A strange place where happiness is not a resident but completely filled
with sorrow.
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Fierce like a roar of a hungry lion and strong as hyena jaw.
Even maturity has given up in trying to make him grow.
His ways were pitch black as darkness of dawn.
The only son of his single mother yet he chose a different road.
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As l gaze through the window I saw a poor boy
by the vegetable market with torn out trousers and broken rubber shoe
sole.
The whiteness of his skin has darkened to the blackness of coal.
An authoritative policemen with a whistle in his mouth and hands in the
air whilst vehicles come to a stop.
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