Botswana: African Odyssey 

Beneath the boundless African sky –

Unblemished blue overhead

And sun-bleached white on the horizon –

There is an endless African road:

Stretched long and shimmering straight

Tirelessly chasing its own vanishing point

 

Crossing the vast African bush –

Khaki-clad with stone buttons flashing silver

And mottled coat of green-brown and yellow-red –

Is a determined African bus:

A melting pot of tenacious travellers

Bubbling with the bright colours of adventure

 

They find a snaking African river –

A watery ribbon teeming with life

That quenches all who visit its cool shores –

Fraying into a wide African delta:

A floating Eden world

With arms open wide in swampy embrace

 

En route are remote African towns –

Echoing with fish-eagle cries of freedom

And donkey-plodding hopes for the future –

Nurturing countless African dreams:

Termite-mound aspirations reaching skyward

And ferry-chugging crossings to peace and prosperity

 

Among them is a wistful African poet –

At home in the bushveld of his birth

And at rest in the sands of the wilderness –

In search of eternal African mysteries:

The eroded ways of ancient flow-lines

And native answers to thirsty questions

 

 

Copyright 2007

 

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