Smoked Dreams of Sofia Town

Poetry
Written By Tralone Lindiwe Khoza

We have touched the reflections of Sofia Town in our dreams

Felt the pulse and the afflictions of our people

Kept to the red roofed, haunted houses and sassy Shebeen queens.

The escape from being black in the smoke

The silence of those led to the slaughter

On that Oak tree in Bertha Street,

Fought for their title deeds

Next to the pasop die hond signage

Peace which our ancestors ground their teeth to keep.


The beret and the love of Jazz music

The joy under of the roof came

With a new name

As gifted Hugh Masikela and the young Miriam Makeba

Kept the sorrow from the soul

The dense mist locked the pain away

Heard of the fables of Es’kia Mphahlele and Can Themba

Under the Large loud eyes of Drum Magazine

The tears, laughter, and dreams of Fort Hare University

We have touched the reflections of Sofia Town in our dreams.

Tralone Lindiwe Khoza

Tralone Lindiwe Khoza is the founder of Leading Lindiwe Blogspot and

Lindiwe’s Folktales: Media and Branding. She holds a BA Communications degree from the University of Johannesburg and a postgraduate Diploma in Marketing (IMM). She has written for All4Women, BizCommunity, Joy magazine. She has also written for MUMSRU, an online magazine for single mothers in the UK, as well as fora South Australian woman’s fashion magazine. She is also the international country coordinator for Women Poets International Movement (Mujeres Poetas Internacional MPI) in South Africa. She is the Author of Lindiwe’s The Voice Amongst the Eagle: The First work of Poetry

Her recent publications include:

Black Eagles Fly High, which was published in Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology and two poems: Hair things and God I want to go to Ghana, which were chosen for the Writing Language, Culture and Development, Africa vs Asia Volume 1 Anthology to be published in 2018.

Other places where her poems have appeared include The Kalahari Review, Parousia magazine (Nigeria) and UNICEF’s Voice of the Youth Blog.

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