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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2014-01-24 08:51 AM

MY MADIBA #3
10 January 2014

http://soundcloud.com/diana-van-den-berg-2/my-madiba-3

Blinding white light
and blazing sun beating, beating, beating down,
relentlessly, exhaustingly,
and swastika’d Van Rensburg . . .
the sound of iron on limestone -
crash, crash, crash, crash . . .

and the sun and the light
and the heat and the crash
and the thirst
and the sun and the light
and the heat and the crash
and Van Rensburg watching
waiting, taunting, punishing . . .

I am trying hard, Madiba,
but not succeeding,
to live just one minute
of your Robben Island gift
to our rainbow nation,
and you did this for eighteen
of your twenty-seven years
of we-won’t-give-up,
but when-will-this-end?

Owl

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

1 posted 2014-01-24 03:24 PM

also 'well-penned' indeed ... it would be grand if the entire world could ever exist, even for awhile, without any 'dark corners' of intolerance, bigotry, prejudice,
socio-political oppression and such ... replaced instead by the celebration of human diversity and Gaia stewardship (respect for all biospheric life forms) ...

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2014-01-24 04:05 PM

Thank you, Bruce. Yes, it would, indeed.

Owl

Bluesy Socrateaser
Member Elite

since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

3 posted 2014-01-25 12:08 PM

Mandela's invincible spirit rose far beyond SA's Alcatraz.

His smile is upon every word of your poetry...no doubt.

...just bein' Bluesy

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2014-01-25 12:32 PM

Thank you, Bluesy for your supportive words. You are right, but it must have been hard, believing, but not knowing that they would win.

Owl

Gale
Senior Member

since 2013-06-10

Posts 578
Russia

5 posted 2014-01-25 01:59 PM

Powerful writing, Owl!
Stunning!

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2014-01-25 02:23 PM

Thank you, Gale. Your response is much appreciated.

Owl

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