A brief conversation with Sehloho Piet Rampai
Sehloho Piet Rampai: I am a South
African awards winning Poet and Author who loves writing and Politics.
Literary
Garland: What is poetry all about?
Sehloho
Piet Rampai: My poems differs as I write almost
about everything from Politics,Economy, Love,hatred etc
Literary
Garland: How
many poems have written till date
Sehloho
Piet Rampai : Till to date I am not sure but have
written morethan 1000 poems and most of my work is available online and have self-published
four books on my own and got featured on others.
Literary
Garland: What makes you write?
Sehloho
Piet Rampai : What encourages me to write its
everyday situations and so shy to speak but I make use of poetry to tackle lot
of issues
Literary
Garland: Have you published any books? If so, please
mention them for our readers?
Sehloho
Piet Rampai : To date I have self-published 6 books
and 4 of them I am the only author on them, namely The Words, Poetic Justice, Poetry
o'clock and Mabinabine (South Sotho Poems) and Others like Coast To Coast and
The Poets wish I have collaborated with other great Poets like Esshiete, Francis
and Charlez and link to all my books is https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Rampai
Literary Garland: Please share our readers some of your poems.
Sehloho Piet Rampai : Some poems I would share are:
A person in the mirror
A
person in the mirror
You
have never cared,
What
others had to say,
You
always stood your ground,
While
others walked away
You
love a challenge,
And
you love life...
I’ve
never seen you,
Back
down from a fright
When
you see a problem,
You
find a way to fix it,
You
press forward
(While
others)
Are
quickly looking for an exit.
I
know you’re tired,
We
all have our days,
You
got to dust yourself off
And
jump back in the race
You’ve
had your moments of doubt
But
they’ve been few and distant.
You’ve
been down before,
And
this is no different...
A RIDICULOUS NOTE
I sit here
Alone to the company of my shadow
Upon the wall
Calling my name
A whisper of an ungrateful friend
The tears creep
The bones creek
My stomach churns
To a moment I scream
And darkness yells
The cold feeling inside my soul
Wanting me to wake from the day dream I
Fail to sleep
The due of night
Makes the day of my sight
What to do to entertain myself
Talk to me
Meeting
at night
The
day was over
When
I first laid my eyes on you
Colours
in the darkness were nothing
But
the expression of love
As
the flowers were asleep
The
night was drawing nigh
But
you and I
Were
surrounded by true beauty of stars
With
the kindest blessings
I
was wrapped around your kindness
We
were lovers tossing on the deep blue sea
When
waves was dancing to our rhythm
But
you and I
Were
floating in the sea of love
But
when day wakens
Birds
were singing so joyfully
Sun rises
in my eyes
Then
I arise so hopefully
But
everything was in vain...