Poetry
Roots
Do feet take heads
Where they won’t dare go?
And show them straight paths
While round routes they know?
Course: Sharpened Vision: A Poetry Workshop | California Insitute of Arts (CalArts)
I took this online non-accredited course from the California Institute of Arts in July-August 2021 to deepen my skills and insight in writing and reading poetry. To access the certificate online click here.
The Vengeance of Time
Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in the U-Rights Magazine, Issue 2, April 2020 We travel far in the spaces and we return to timeWe read the infinite skies and draw maps over roadsWe may touch hearts, or hit, or hurt, or runEyes peek atop the left wrist in recurrent bewildermentThe haste is pressing, to … Read more
To simba
Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in the Writers Space Africa (WSA) Monthly Literary Magazine in March 2019. Crowned their KingRig and ring will counter noughtNor change, what is deemedFor a king, must bring peace in his quietThis Simba you’ve doneYour honour in all brutes! Elegant as you are,Your quite is their peace. TremblingSeizes their … Read more
Lulu, Yet Again
Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in the Writers Space Africa (WSA) Monthly Literary Magazine in their June 2018 Edition. Down the shadowy river bankThe lone crumbling stony bridge, in sight,The blonde swift pacing sundown,And the dutiful whispering waters,Which nursed and romancedThe busy starving gossiping winds, hoveringUnto the grinning starry heavens,Remain the eyewitnessesOf that wonder,Love … Read more
Mother
Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in the Writers Space Africa (WSA) Monthly Literary Magazine in September 2017 Edition Mother is everythingShares all thingAll in all beingShe made me a king Mother is all goodGives all foodEndures all moodShe saves me from cold Mother is all-lovingCalms all cryingEven at night disturbingShe wakes and me keeps … Read more