Nothing by Jorge Carrera Andrade | Poems Rethabile Likes

Jorge Carrera Andrade's 'Nothing' — a stark, aphoristic poem of husks and deserts, where the mind yawns a Sahara and nothing saves us.

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18 One-Liners: Learn English with Jokes

A short English lesson in humour, vocabulary and wordplay for intermediate learners.

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The Bay by Fiona Zerbst | Poems Rethabile Likes

Zerbst's 'The Bay' — an elegy for Stephen Watson, where sea, light, and memory meet the ache of continuing to write.

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Happy Birthday, W. S. Merwin! | Poems Rethabile Likes

W. S. Merwin's 'Yesterday' — a haunting, spare story of a father, a son, and a final chance to stay that becomes lifelong regret.

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The Pope’s Chauffeur

Learn English with Jokes

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September by Jennifer Michael Hecht | Poems Rethabile Likes

Jennifer Michael Hecht's 'September' — a still, aching poem of longing, where others' joy sharpens the speaker's quiet melancholy tonight.

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Words Against the Clouds by Breyten Breytenbach | Poems Rethabile Likes

Breyten Breytenbach's 'Words Against the Clouds' — a profound meditation on language, exile, and the weight of words in a time of war.

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Dig by Vonani Bila | Poems Rethabile Likes

Vonani Bila's 'Dig' — a griot's warning against self-destruction, where love is a deep hole hiding termites and reptiles.

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America Is a Gun by Brian Bilston | Poems Rethabile Likes

Brian Bilston's 'America Is a Gun' — a wry, staccato catalogue of national stereotypes that lands, hard, on a single repeating line.

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In a Country Church by R. S. Thomas | Poems Rethabile Likes

R. S. Thomas's 'In a Country Church' — a quiet, piercing meditation on silence, kneeling, and the blazing love hidden in a winter tree.

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All Weathers

Poetry from the archive

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Your Presence by David Mandessi Diop | Poems Rethabile Likes

David Diop's 'Your Presence' — a Négritude poem of rediscovery, love, and the reawakening of African identity after colonial alienation.

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If This Life Is All We Have by Dennis Brutus | Poems Rethabile Likes

Brutus's "If This Life Is All We Have' — a clear-eyed meditation on purpose, joy, and living fully in a finite life.

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Five South African Poets — Rethabile Masilo

Post by Rethabile Masilo

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Worldwide, a quarter of new car sales are electric vehicles or hybrids

In eight countries, at least half of all new cars sold in 2025 were electric or hybrid. The U.S. reached just 10%, well below the global average of 25%.

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Europe’s EV Share Jumps to 30.5% as Electric-Car Sales Blow Past Forecasts - AutoIgloo

Europe’s electric-car market has shifted from steady growth to a much sharper acceleration. Battery-electric vehicles captured 30.5% of new-car registrations

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Leda and the Swan by W.B. Yeats | Poems Rethabile Likes

Yeats's 'Leda and the Swan' — a mythic, violent sonnet of divine rape, prophecy, and the birth of history from a single shudder.

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Courage – It Takes More by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers | Poems Rethabile Likes

Phillippa Yaa de Villiers's 'Courage – It Takes More' — a stirring poem of ubuntu, justice, and the courage to build a home for all humanity.

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Hap by Thomas Hardy | Poems Rethabile Likes

Hardy's 'Hap' — a stark, philosophical poem questioning fate, chance, and the indifference of the universe to human suffering.

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Concerning Gaza, and the divine perspective...

In 2014, Onslaught Press published for the children of Gaza. See an illustrated anthology edited by Matthew D.

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Not My Business by Niyi Osundare | Poems Rethabile Likes

'Not my Business' by Niyi Osundare

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