On this installation of The POET’S HAVEN, we have incendiary, lovingly vulnerable, life-saving, inspiring, motivating, uplifting, and evocative Zimbabwean poetry from the amazing Afreekah.Art (Lindokuhle Khumalo) in an elaborate poem aptly titled ‘Art is Therapy’, and it is life in abundance. It is art in its finest expression and we absolutely love it.
These are the brilliantly beautiful poems from Zimbabwe, by Zimbabwe’s poets, furnishing us with a warm and comfortable Poet’s Haven:
Art is Therapy by Afreekah.Art
To say, without speaking
Embrace a whole feeling,
My creations go deeper
Than I’m willing to be,
Than I’m willing to see
The plain Truth about me:
so dented
so bruised
misguided and slighted
reduced to misuse
Thoughtlessly abused
Always confused…
By the Beings around me.
The Beings that aren’t free
But want parts of me.
Not all of me
Just some of me.
The parts of me
That are for me…
Could you...?
LOVE THE FRAGMENTS
That survived the madness
Breathed life in-to my sadness
And brought about my
gladness?
And to me—
Completely cracked
and
Cracked completely:
Even you, deserve fresh dew.
~Afreekah.
(this poem was first published on Afreekah.Art's Instagram page)
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