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by

Thapelo Mokgadi

Basket of the world, Where all are equal, equal opportunities and equal in stature,
No poverty, no global warming because
Eve refused to be tainted by the venomous lies
Of the snake called capitalism and profit.

Here Eve is the mother of our nation – wonder world.

Thapelo Mokgadi is a PhD candidate at the University of Pretoria. He
began his physics career at the University of Pretoria in 2013 and completed
his Masters of Science degree in Physics in 2019. Thapelo has worked on
different projects in nuclear physics and data science.

What message would you like to share through your poem?

The Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
defines a ‘sense of wonder’ as “a feeling of awakening or awe
triggered by an expansion of one’s awareness of what is possible or by
confrontation with the vastness of space and time...”. Like a child, we
must have a wild imagination, we must explore and create with our
minds and allow ourselves to go into the unknown, where fiction meets
reality because there we find our creativity and inspiration.

Why poetry?

Someone once said, “Poems give words a feeling, a touch of
something unworldly, something that you might be able to relate to”. I
choose poetry because I want to evoke feelings and imagination.

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