Saturday, December 26, 2009

3 poems by Tinashe Muchuri (my selection)

FOOTSTEPS

don’t worry
they are not coming
they are dying away.


FOOLS

They are body – guarded against death
But they die in the eyes of their guards




SUN

Smile and make my day
Laugh and heal my heart


**Tinashe Muchuri is a poet, performer, actor, and writer currently living in Harare. He performs regularly at arts festivals in Zimbabwe and he features in a local historical soap called 'Tiriparwendo' as the character Jecha. Muchuri has just finished a novel script in Shona, 'Chibarabada' which explores squatter camp subcultures of Zimbabwe and how they interface with power and the 'conventional' society.

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