POETRY
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| Breathing African Air |
| Flightless dust bathes the air as the ostrich dances on two-toed feet to Africa’s beat; musty air hangs humid and motionless ’til rain quenches the parched and red-hot heat – this is Africa: the birthplace of man. A rainbow stretches across basalt cliffs and cascading falls; painted rock faces imprint chronicles of man migrating across desert, savannah, terraces – this is Africa: the motion of man. Small streams meander till rapids beat rock; turbulent whitewater erodes the way, rumbling and tumbling to lose themselves in cascading cataracts’ mist of spray – this is Africa: unquenched quest of man. On blue-green savannah in haze of heat the springbok stands a statue and gazes; zebra camouflaged in shaded dry bush flicks flies as robust buffalo grazes – this is Africa: the treasure of man. Marula mampoer makes monkey mellow; while elephants forage fermented fruit, even-toed giraffe spreads and almost splits, an amazing feat for legs, to lap near coot – this is Africa: for Safari man. The albatross dynamically soars; nose-tubed in anticipation it breathes salt laden air, polluted like the depths, where dolphin dances and dives, wrestles, wreathes – this is Africa: the refuse for man. Death in rotting carcasses call raptors in their hordes, to scavenge the battlefields where fear falls prey to foe; the hyena eats as a volt of vultures pry for yields – this is Africa, the wake waits for man. |