04 March 2014

ECHOES: from lamontville to prospecton ...

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)

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