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Monday, 8 September 2014

A contemplative poem about Africa by David Tombale: Pursuit

This is a contemplative poem about what Africa means to me and what I might possibly mean to it.

Pursuit

The whispered words of a mother
to her crying child have somehow
caught my ear,
have brought me sounds of love and
joy amidst the worried clamor of my peers,
oh say I speak of voter booths,
of blood soaked tears, of Africa?
Say I speak of sun dried fields,
of absent rains, of the shadow of the day,
I who’ve spent my days in misery,
in pursuit of Africa?

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