Ipikai Poetry Journal https://ipikai.org/ The Story of Zimbabwe in Poetry Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:23:26 +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 Ipikai Poetry Journal https://ipikai.org/ 32 32 200483121 Issue 7 | Front Page https://ipikai.org/issue-7/issue-7-front-page/ Wed, 28 May 2025 10:41:52 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=2155 This latest issue of the Ipikai Poetry Journal brings together poets who explore the many layers of grief with honesty and grace. Their words speak of loss—personal and shared—and the echoes it leaves behind. In mourning parents, friends, ancestors, and histories, the poets invite us to sit with the ache, reminding us that grief is many shades of many emotions.

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]]> 2155 Reckoning https://ipikai.org/issue-7/reckoning/ Wed, 28 May 2025 09:58:11 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=2111 I didn’t see the dying, in the smiles you dropped so casually,In the tears you sniffed away, when clouds made you blue;Your eyes flitted past my face, like butterflies fleeing rain…How can death be so stealthy, spring so bitter-sweet,To mask the tang of dying, in buds of evergreen?I never felt the leaving, it seemed like… Read More »Reckoning

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]]> 2111 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 Seamstress https://ipikai.org/issue-7/seamstress/ Wed, 28 May 2025 09:58:11 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=2100 I’ve been a piece of fabric beforeWith scissors hanging off my skin,a pattern cut, spilling like silk to the floorheld together by staples and pins. My mother’s sewing machine still has the spoolFrom the summer she died on a Mhunga bus in 1997;       I like to tell myself the rose gold yarn   … Read More »Seamstress

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]]> 2100 Mavara Emisodzi Yangu https://ipikai.org/issue-7/mavara-emisodzi-yangu/ Wed, 28 May 2025 09:58:11 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=2097 Vamwe vanoti semvura misodzihaina ruvara.Asi yangu misodziinoyerera nemavara.Vamwe vanoti zvinobatsirei kuyeredza musodzikana isingamudzosi?Ndinorwadziwa asi handidembi.Chandinogona kudetemba.Hameno kumhepo ikoko kana muchigona kuriravamuzive kuti makandisiya ndakarivara.Ndaedza kutsvaga zvinonditandadzaasi pfungwa dzinongoona kwenyu kutandadza.Ndaisa zvinonaka mumuromo asi ndatadzakumedza.Dzameramumusoro wese ndangariro.Kwete dzemariroasi dzemagariroatakaita hupenyu hwese.Ndiyani aimbofunga kutikufambidzana, kufambirana, kufariranakufarisisa kufarisa, kufarira nokufarakunozoputirwa kwese mujira jenakovharirwa mubhokisi kodzikiswa mugomba kofushirwa muvhumusi… Read More »Mavara Emisodzi Yangu

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]]> 2097 Mharidzo yeparufu! https://ipikai.org/issue-7/mharidzo-yeparufu/ Wed, 28 May 2025 09:58:11 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=2095 Ndizvo here kuti vakanaka ndivo vanoenda zvavokana kuti ingori mharidzo yeparufu,wafawanaka? Kuriko here kunoendwa kana kuti hakuna Kenani iriko,wafawarova? Unoreva idi here zvowoimba“Dai manditora ndaenda naye”,Soja raenda? “Nyarara kuchema, Mwari akunyaradze!”Zvinobva papi mumwoyo yenyuzvisingasvikewo kune wangu wakadai kuputsika? Inzira yedu tose, hongu, asi ko sei isina kutitora tosenekasvava kangu?

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