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Africa… You Are A Book

Napo Masheane

Africa, when you smile

Poetry gets written all over your face
Your laughter becomes

... simple couplets

Your lingering giggles are

… a sonnet with rhyme schemes

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
AA BB CC DD

AAAA

ABBA

ABA BCB CDC

Africa, your teeth sparkle
Between your well-formed hills… cliffs… lips

The very same lips you bite so shyly

Then in my awe-ness

I watch your dreaded-valleys

The ones packed nicely like verses

Tango and salsa effortlessly over your people
While your husky clicking multiple tongues chuckle

Almost like alliteration of…

Time that rides timeless times

Africa, your smile runs with puns
Like a photographic memory that never develops

And in the oxymoron of my thoughts...

Like wildfires that are fireless

I indulge in my eyes eyeing yours

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