Poëzie uit Zimbabwe
Vorig jaar werkte Ans Seegers, oud-yogacursiste, op een school in Zimbabwe. Ze stimuleerde haar leerlingen om zich te uiten via gedichten. Hieronder een paar resultaten.
Title: ‘LOVE’
Like a shooting star
She comes to me with a smile
Full of hope, a promise for life
The one that I was longing for all my life
One who will bear my children,
And make my mother proud,
But behind the smile and beautiful face
Lies the she-devil herself
The cheats of cheats
Mistress of deception
One who will crush my fragile heart
Play me like a bull and bring me to tears
She leaves me painless and sorrowful
Like a chewing gum she leaves me
Tasteless, I am left wondering
Where did all the good girls go
No hope, the search continues.
By Matura Simplicio
(nickname ‘The fresh’)
Man from Gokwe
Title: ‘NATURE’
Look! Watch those trees
Delighting in their new leaves and flowers
They seem to have come to life the day before
yesterday
But the rain stopped at the time of harvest
Look! Observe the snake, the beetles are awakened
From the sleep of lonely night
With a new strength
The grass is greening from its old roots
I too die and arise daily by sleeping at night
And waking in the morning, yet I am still asleep
Foolishly since I can not regain
Like the leaves, the flowers, the grass
The new life which flows from the soils command
Oh!! What wonderful you are nature
No one goes against your command!
By Sukue Akayi One
Title: ‘PAIN’
You man pain
You started troubling me since I was born
Still today you don’t want to forgive me
I put all my hands up and surrender you.
Pain, you rain unto me everyday
My teachers punish me, you decide to invade me
My father threatens me, you decide to invade me
My relatives die, you decide to invade me
Oh! Pain, I put all my hands up and surrender you!
When would you leave me pain?
How, would I escape you pain?
Pain, you make my psychically and mental suffer
When, are you going to die pain?
Now, I am tired of you pain,
I put all my hands up and surrender you
By Givas Mnike Ncube
Title: ‘DEATH’
Death, oh! Death!
How terrible and cruel
Are you!
Where there are happy people
You are not happy
What kind of an animal are you?
Where you pass,
Sad faces and mourning remains
For the number of orphans is increasing
Because of you death
How uppity you are!
For when I was born
I found people talking about you
Now it is clear that
Death you are unfriendly
Death, oh! Death!
How cruel you are!
By Miss Mc Sikhonzile SK.
Title: ‘WISHES’
Each time I try to flash my mind
Back to the past events
I find it full of wishes
But how are wishes?
Wishes never come to reality at all
They take me to England when I am in Lusulu
They assign me to be president
When I am a peasant
But how are wishes
Wishes are like folktales
And never come to reality
If wishes could come to reality
How many presidents would each country have
If wishes could come to reality how many Africans
would reach Europe
But how are wishes?
Wishes are never real
If wishes could come to reality
Everyone could be rich
If wishes could come to reality
Everyone would own cars, degrees of education
All these are burdened
Because wishes are wishes
And never come to reality
By Dumisani Dumara AKA Carlos M
