Echoes of our Heartbeats

The echoes of our heart beats
Remind us that being human is the only music
Mankind could use it
To live peacefully at ease.

What more there be to human than heArt? 

If being human decides to fight
The very human they so intimately claim
To descend from, their off springs and rain,
Destructions and pain for gain
By the few hands of Human at the sigh
And plight of the other,
Will there ever be peace amongst us?

I stand taller than Mumbara trees of my forefathers bloodline,
And I strange further than Lungara streams of our grand mothers past times,
For I am a descendant of the river people, the elephant people, the sun people.
I am an heArtist, a warrior, a narrative.

- Onalethuso Petruss Ntema
18082019-0800

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I OFTEN FEEL OFFENDED

I OFTEN FEEL OFFENDED

I often feel offended when I get rejected

By servants and subjects of this course,

For discourse promotes senses hidden behind scars and wisdom

Of a bruised heart and tears of the afflicted,

Like fountains in the sacred desert sands of the Kalahari

As they sprinkle their last tear drop in days of drought in diaries and pages

Of their memories. I am just an orphan—

A vulnerable child without traces of their human,

I am just an orphan;

For villages have images of my descendants,

My ancestors and forefathers of their grandparents,

My own person, a child of the sun and basket,

The basket that my own mother’s hand crafted

From palm tree leaves planted by nature’s own servants,

With black, bold and brown or purple blue grey colors of their basket,

I am just an orphan—

An orphan who’d often sing songs unknown from the heart of the moon,

To caress my ears with echoes of my heart beat. And you—

Dear other, the true navigator of word and sound behind the full moon…

Onalethuso Petruss Buyile Ntema, 12092019-1451

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A Proud parent's

I am convinced that I'm slowly getting very older and grey hair soon start to tint my locks. Because, my daughter's talent exceedingly makes me very proud as a veteran Creative Artist. Thako ya morago. Just today, her school club was representing the North West region at the ABOSPA Performing Arts competitions in the HOSANA traditional song and dance category at Botho University in Gaborone since morning. These kids can take one's soul nxwi struu. Immensely gifted and confident. Despite tough competition, I am a happy man and whatever the results, I'll still be proud of Matola Primary school for making a mark at national level. I have to thank the team (trainers and directors Pelo and Tsalaepe, Mr Makgelane, Mma Zulu and the organizers). As a parent, it touches my heArt even harder to see the commitment and articulation these kids have and their presentations really surpass that of Junior, Secondary and tertiary schools. But really Deczybélle Daisy reminded me of my early days at Mathiba primary school. Ne ke rabola, from 93 to 2004 go gyiwa lethwa. Those who know me will attest to the fact and I continue to put bread on the table through just art. I thank my ancestors for her. And I wish her a very creative and artistic journey hantse dithaka di mo zukutura kaha a sprakana natso. Oh, Urezha! Nda ti qwatisa nishoozi pa peeshi when this girl rumbles in such talents. My heart is very white.

MATLOLA Primary School Traditional Song and Dance group

Artistic Director Tsalaepe, my daughter Deczybelle and myself at Botho University in Gaborone

Gaborone - National Assembly/Parliament of Botswana building