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MNCEDISI MASHIGOANE
Section 29
your hands left spots on my body
section 50 had pooed and passed
when i `mumbled'
in those induced trips to the other world
you yourself observed
you yourself noted
flesh retreating to the bones
solid trouble in the eyes
such as make you think of Dingane ka Zulu!
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TPB's note: from the www.african-writing.com
NIYI OSUNDARE
Heart’s Eye View
Left Paris
Several heartthrobs ago
Past Madrid
Now flying over Marrakech
One fast sweep
Over the sprawling Sahara
And on to the angel
Waiting by the sea
Every wingstep brings me
Closer to your wondrous arms
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TPB's note: from the www.african-writing.com
HARRY GARUBA
Monkey Love
hanging from the branches of your arms
dreaming of bananas,
I long only for things prosaic
things without poetry or fire
like bread and flesh and earth
like soil and seed and water
like the body evidence of sweat,
undeodorized, fresh with odour,
neither seas nor sunsets will serve this need
I long only…
to clasp the trunk of your body
and hug you like the monkey hugs the tree
a hairy love in an embrace of leaves
hanging from the branches of your arms
dreaming of bananas,
I long only for things prosaic
things without poetry or fire
like bread and flesh and earth
like soil and seed and water
like the body evidence of sweat,
undeodorized, fresh with odour,
neither seas nor sunsets will serve this need
I long only…
to clasp the trunk of your body
and hug you like the monkey hugs the tree
a hairy love in an embrace of leaves
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TPB's note: from the www.african-writing.com
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