Poem
Dambudzo Marechera
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the waters rushed downupon the gnarled bush
writhed in profile
the waters unleashed their scything
flood powers
wild scattering of primeval beasts
rose into hoof-pounded
crescendo, as –
the moment the sky cried out in a thrombosis
of lightning –
the moment of a second the explosion
lit up white in a heave of stones
and bodies –
resounding through the arrested moment
of time
in a desperate dance of death –
two men
locked in strenuous struggle
of violence
two men now two killers
settling the difference of their separate
ideologies, but each now alone
bent on his prey
© 1992, Flora Veit Wild
From: Cemetery of Mind
Publisher: Baobab Books, Harare
From: Cemetery of Mind
Publisher: Baobab Books, Harare
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the waters rushed downupon the gnarled bush
writhed in profile
the waters unleashed their scything
flood powers
wild scattering of primeval beasts
rose into hoof-pounded
crescendo, as –
the moment the sky cried out in a thrombosis
of lightning –
the moment of a second the explosion
lit up white in a heave of stones
and bodies –
resounding through the arrested moment
of time
in a desperate dance of death –
two men
locked in strenuous struggle
of violence
two men now two killers
settling the difference of their separate
ideologies, but each now alone
bent on his prey
From: Cemetery of Mind
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