Andy Kahari, Author at Ipikai Poetry Journal https://ipikai.org/author/andykahari/ The Story of Zimbabwe in Poetry Wed, 28 May 2025 09:58:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/ipikai.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cropped-ipikai-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Andy Kahari, Author at Ipikai Poetry Journal https://ipikai.org/author/andykahari/ 32 32 200483121 choices made in grief https://ipikai.org/issue-7/choices-made-in-grief/ Wed, 28 May 2025 09:58:11 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=2105 when the funeral wake finally subsides,and the last mourners depart,the crushing weight of solitude descends,a harsh reminder that you are truly alone. in the silence, your heart confessesa secret wish for the vigil to linger,for the presence of othersto deceive you into thinking you’re not alone. When solitude arrives,some try to drown it in gin… Read More »choices made in grief

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]]> 2105 still she loves https://ipikai.org/issue-6/still-she-loves/ Wed, 17 Jul 2024 21:01:40 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=1901 she is a woman, so full of loveto conceive even fools as we, men,who to this day do not fill women with love.but fall far from the stem of a woman’s heart.yet, still, she is a woman,to ferry men to life in her patient womb from landswhere they were before they were born,and when in… Read More »still she loves

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]]> 1901 What Could Have Been https://ipikai.org/issue-5/what-could-have-been/ Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:04:24 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=1744 come to think of ityou could have been that splattersmeared on the wallwetting all them sheetsand berlin conferencing that mattressinto conquest territoriesoff-springs that never were bornall lost bone marrow to see no ‘morrow you still could have been that bullet tipthat saw and aimed for that bull’s eyeand in two ovums attached and explodedand the… Read More »What Could Have Been

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]]> 1744 His Story https://ipikai.org/issue-5/his-story/ Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:04:22 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=1746 ghosts, whose bodies his father attended to,in between time travel from the living to the dead,at the rusape morgue haunted him from his birth.dambudzo they named his body to torment his spirit,when none of the world he knew.a morgue whisperer for a father,was it not too many legions on its own?beelzebub, they should just have… Read More »His Story

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]]> 1746 Uncountable https://ipikai.org/issue-5/uncountable/ Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:04:20 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=1748 when your house is languishing in hungerand the possibilities of evading anguish of constant pangs of empty bellies is to face the demons existing outside of your sorry self.perplexed you are to fathom you know how to silence your struggles,but your struggle is your father’s own ejaculation. what are the possibilities of you doing what… Read More »Uncountable

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]]> 1748 New Hope https://ipikai.org/issue-4/new-hope/ Tue, 30 May 2023 13:32:49 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=1592 verdant valleys offer soft showers of rain after a droughtchirping crickets and deafening singing birdssilence the drought of yesterday daffodils rise to touch the blue skybeautiful scent left in turgid cloudsdry clouds swallowed in petals of sweet nectar bees too busy to sting the honey poacherflowers are plenty no need to waste a stingtomorrow in… Read More »New Hope

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