Lenrie Peters (The Fence) Poem by African Poetry
Lenrie Peters (The Fence)
There where the dim past and future mingle
their nebulous hopes and aspirations
there I lie.
There where truth and untruth struggle
in endless and bloody combat,
there I lie.
There where time moves forwards and backwards
with not one moment’s pause for sighing,
there I lie.
There where the body ages relentlessly
and only the feeble mind can wander back
there I lie in open-souled amazement
There where all the opposites arrive
to plague the inner senses, but do not fuse,
I hold my head; and then contrive
to stop the constant motion.
my head goes round and round,
but I have not been drinking;
I feel the buoyant waves; I stagger
It seems the world has changed her garment.
but it is I who have not crossed the fence,
So there I lie.
There where the need for good
and “the doing good” conflict,
there I lie.
A marvelous write.Love reading..To quote a few lines- - It seems the world has changed her garment. but it is I who have not crossed the fence, So there I lie. There where the need for good and “the doing good” conflict, there I lie.
The world has really changed her garment@nice personification. There i lie@nice refrein. You are sitting on the fence without make a choice@ what a delimma
There where the need for good, the doing good conflict. I just like poem nice work
Thank you for reminding of this poem. I was opportuned to study it for my School cert exams in the late 70s. Great work
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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true the world changed her garment...and it seems the untruth has won the combat