Hello there, I’m
Bashah Magele; Poet & Author of The Poetic Series.
This young voice is one worth hearing as it represents everything from abstracts personified to anyone as a storyteller, a child, an empath, a skeptic, or, utterly, a human.
Hello there, I’m
Bashah Magele; Poet & Author of The Poetic Series.
This young voice is one worth hearing as it represents everything from abstracts personified to anyone as a storyteller, a child, an empath, a skeptic, or, utterly, a human.
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INNOCENCE. SOLITUDE. JUST IS.
BASHAH MAGELE
About The Author
Bashah Luthando Magele is a 17-year-old South African girl with an intense love for words. She loves to talk, debate, analyse, write, and has been reading ever since she could formulate a sentence. Her career in literature started off very early, with her love for poetry furthering from reciting poems to writing her own at the ripe age of 8 years old.
The most accurate description of Bashah is found within her names. “Bashah” means “daughter of a promise” in Hebrew, and “Act of God” in Swahili; “Luthando means “love” in isiXhosa. Not only is her life led by God and His grace, but she attaches her life’s weight to the gift, power, and strength of love.
Importantly, her favourite color is purple. Even more importantly, music is an essential aspect of her life which she explores through incessant singing, making playlists, and learning piano and, formerly, the violin. Her favourite lyric, “I’m the chosen one; flowers never pick themselves,” paired with a delusional passion for doing it all, prepares her to reach her life-long goal: To do it all, and more.
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THE POETIC SERIES
The Poetic Series is introduced by 8-year-old Bashah innocently launching into her writing journey with a pronounced rhyme scheme obsession and no concept of any possible borders of imagination. It shifts into her teenage mind and exposes the emotions and vulnerability that occupies her in her moments of isolation and questioning. The series concludes her story with her commentaries on the young, black, South African girl experience; both its beauties and its demises.
The series straps you into Bashah’s life journey narrated by three different versions of herself: her juvenile self, her adrift-and-solitary self, and her advocative self. It is not a beeline, easy-to-read compilation. Instead, it forces you to dwell upon both the denotations and connotations behind her words, and look inwards.
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