here my dear
flower with the wind
and drifting
just behind your breast plate
in front of your heart
there is a glow
that matches the textures of the neo-soul
state of mind
runs down
gentle stream
calm water
and a sound of gold.
open space
as space to breathe
time leaving
by the second
inhale your blues
exhale out mellow
rest your back
onto green suede couch
and soak under velvet sky
let the purple rain
Sihle Ntuli is a Kwa-Mashu born South African writer and M.A graduate from the School of Languages and Literature at Rhodes University. Since 2009, his poems have been published on New Coin, New Contrast, Itch and Saraba amongst others. He has also been published in an array of African anthologies such as the Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology & the Sol Plaatjie EU Poetry Anthology in 2016 & 2017.
He has read his poetry at several literature festivals such Time of the Writer and Poetry Africa for the launches of print editions of Poetry Potion and Uhlanga respectively. In 2015 as part of Bakwa’s music feature edition, he curated a Pan-African playlist in collaboration with Ja Magazine entitled ‘Phola’. In the same year, he released his debut anthology of poetry entitled ‘Stranger’ to favourable reviews.
In 2017, Singer/Songwriter and poet Douglas Kaze wrote a paper entitled ‘“bodies starved of the city’s pulse”: The Post-Apartheid Urban Space in Sihle Ntuli’s Stranger” this paper was presented at Yale University in the United States as part of the A.L.A Annual Conference.”