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Kalamu ya Salaam's information blog

 

photo by Alex Lear

photo by Alex Lear

 

 

 

MADIBA WORD MUSIC 

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– A Haiku Sequence for Nelson Mandela

 

 

 

haiku #40

 

nelson busts robben’s

rocks like cousin john henry

swinging freedom steel

 

 

 

 

 

haiku #54

 

mandela’s teeth cracked

captivity’s bones & sucked

resistance marrow

 

 

 

 

 

haiku #61

 

murdered children’s deaths

bandoliered cross our chests

we hate apartheid

 

 

 

 

haiku #112

 

emerging from jail

their dragon, our butterfly

his smile is so huge

 

 

—kalamu ya salaam