ECHOES:
from Lamontville to Prospecton and beyond
© Farouk Asvat
Those who
thrive on us
Capture us
In pictures
of despair:
A landscape
Of hungry children
And motherless fathers
Shamelessly drunk
Around the cold dryness
Of a peasant hut.
Here
Among the
cooing doves
Whispering
mangroves
And the
metallic twitter of insects,
Life is far
away.
Here
The waters
are still,
quietly lapping
against the dark shore
And the
turbulence of the townships
Hardly echo
© farouk asvat
composed: 28.11.1981 [Lamontville, South
Africa under apartheid]
28.08.1982 [Isipingo Beach,
South Africa under apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
Echoes: from
Lamontville to Prospecton and beyond was previously published in:
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (piquant publications, p85, 2006);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(04.03.2014);
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (kindle, 2014);
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (amazon paperback, p83,
2014).
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[§] Books
by Farouk Asvat:
● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming (short
stories)*
● In The
House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words
(comparative literature &
literary criticism)
¨ all my books are now available on amazon: in
paperback & kindle
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