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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…
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