Thabo Seseane Poems

Occasionally,
Unexpectedly, arriving again at a viewer's vantage,
A panorama of views in north-south directions:
Pantomimes repeated in many theatres -
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From before the first heartbeat,
For nine months of waiting.
At birth and later,
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ECHOES OF FROTH

Watching bubbles pop,
Is a skill you learn,
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Captain's heart is still strange:
It beats as always, though his body is cold,
Now long cold.
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Come dusk their formations form.
Shiny eye-pairs open and multiply;
Ranks gather, march, then jog.
Advancing into kitchens, barns and crevices,
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Through the interdependence of contrasts
- as in wakefulness and dreaming,
- symmetry and discordance,
- music and noise;
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(A song of awe and gratitude for the Masai Mara)

The children are playing on the carpet,
The green carpet with white decorations.
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To healing for past wrongs and evils,
Or to building,
Or for having lost
the will
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(Following Mandela's steps)

If we could see beyond the horizon,
If our eyes could follow the well-beaten path
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We were sustained and showed semi- radiance
From being washed by waves of past and future guilt.
Tethers of penance held our breath
Adding days and years
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