On my poetry blog, Poéfrika, I’m trying to collect 52 poems that are in my opinion the most representative of Africa. A few are mine (hey, I’m trying!). They really are the ones I’ve worked on the most. Now, do you have one from anyone that you think I should include? If so, send it to me and I’ll be happy to consider it. In the end I’d like to have 52 awesome Africa-inspired poems linked to on my website. A poem per week. Here is the not-quite-finished list. Click away and enjoy.
- Week 01: The profile on the pillow
- Week 02: Wrath
- Week 03: Sunrise
- Week 04: Confession
- Week 05: Butterfly
- Week 06: All the same
- Week 07: Still I rise
- Week 08: Where have you gone?
- Week 09: Saturn’s Child
- Week 10: Thetsane blues
- Week 11: I, Too, Sing America
- Week 12: A Poem for the innocents
- Week 13: Africa
- Week 14: Preface to a 20-volume suicide note
- Week 15: Feeling fucked up
- Week 16: Facing it
- Week 17: Plea
- Week 18: Song of sunrise
- Week 19: Their behaviour
- Week 20: Easy skanking
- Week 21: Dark August
- Week 22: Song, somewhere near Roma
- Week 23: Stars of stone
- Week 24: I want to write
- Week 25: White canes bend at two places
- Week 26: The bean eaters
- Week 27: Land
- Week 28: Telephone conversation
- Week 29: Moments
- Week 30: Arriving at the night fire
- Week 31: Sunflowers
- Week 32: In the kitchen
- Week 33: Frederick Douglass
- Week 34: Adolescence II
- Week 35: Your presence
- Week 36: There it is
- Week 37: Like a beacon
- Week 39: The grotto of Chehrabad
- Week 40: Notes from my mother’s village…
- Week 41: Love after love
- Week 42: The lost baby poem
- Week 43: I know why the caged bird sings
- Week 44: Bachata
- Week 45: Tourist
- Week 46: Men flow like rivers
- Week 47: Hematidrosis in the olive grove
- Week 48: The sophisticated skinhead
- Week 49: Word speaks
- Week 50: Grace
- Week 51: If you want to know me
- Week 52: Come
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How wonderful to find your website. I’m South African (Sharks supporter, Free State Girl loving Natal), living in the UK and found your blog via Dennis the King of Nothing’s blog (you left a comment and as I published my comment, so did you.) How interesting that I have to stumble upon your website via an American blog.
Well done on a great blog. Thank you for showing off our country. I wish more people would.
Ka
Comment by Kay-Lyne — 15 June 2007 @ 7:08 am
Kay-Lyne,
Welcome. Fancy bumping into you like this! Where in the Free State do you come from?
Comment by Rethabile — 16 June 2007 @ 6:21 am
Hahaha!!! You put a big grin on my face today! I lived in Bloemfontein for 14 years and I studied there. I then moved to Durban as my hubby is from Natal.
I had a look around your blog yesterday and WOW! Wow, wow and more wow. Just love your words. They have so much power!
Give SA a big hug from me!
Comment by Kay-Lyne — 16 June 2007 @ 10:23 am
what a great idea! I plan to read through them
Comment by Andrew — 24 June 2007 @ 7:41 am
Hey, Rethabile - this is a great idea and I’ll be back to read more of these poems. One I read and enjoyed some time ago that you might consider is at this link:
http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=52631
I don’t know if you can reach the poet (Charles Musser) via that link, but if you’re interested, you might try him at Soundzine (http://soundzine.org/index.php) where he is an editor.
Comment by Angie — 6 July 2007 @ 10:31 pm
A great collection. I need to spend some time and go through it. Interesting. Thanks.
Comment by Andrew — 6 September 2007 @ 4:53 am
I got your note on my blog - yes, I am from Roanoke, and your time playing here shows what a small world it is. Thank you for your visits, and more for your verse, which I often enjoy.
Tom
Comment by Tom Atkins — 16 April 2008 @ 2:37 pm