This poem was written for the World Poetry Movement.
It seemed the dark trees were shadows stirring up the blue dust, but the sun was stirring setting memories of purple clouds. Perhaps it was the sky of blue like the color above the water of the lake. Wandering near the lake, it seemed to be the flowers creeping into the spring that brought the color to the waves, or it might have been the fluid flapping of crisp clothing as the breeze ruffled the petals. Finding such a luminous shade and tugging upon it with ropes, the frown of emotion lent, to sorrow, its illusion from drama. This implied other shifts made convincing by the old screens in the dim rooms where the softness of illumination brought imagination into a singularity of movement. Arriving there, rumors about a traveler persisted until the dark night made the eyes blue, to see, at the edges, everything the same.
It puts me in mind of an acid trip or a flashback thereof...whether it is or isn't, is not for me to distinguish, but I like this and re-read it several times trying to get the full effect...(I'm kinda slow at times, must be the stroke I had last summer, but still I enjoyed this write) ED
The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow.
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep
Cheers,
Dan
Ron