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On Friday, June 11th, 2021 at 15:54, Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, MbizoChirasha.
>
> Could you clarify what connection your message had with the Wikimedia
> movement, or what you are hoping to achieve by posting it to this group? I
> couldn't quite understand it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> A.
>
> Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
>
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> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 3:47 PM Girlchild Creativity
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> President Zimbabwe
>>
>> Your prolific role is to see value in every citizen
>> Iam a citizen carrying crude metaphors of truth in the caves of my mind
>> Iam a Zimbabwen holding on to the raw scepter of true images of my land ,our
>> country
>> Iam a people yearning for power elite to repent from corruption
>> Iam a griot crying for bureaucrats to repent from stealing the national fat
>> I respect the flag ,it's colors and its meaning ,Iam born by ancestors that
>> saluted chimurenga
>> Iam a fighter of truth and for justice ,iam haunted , threatened and
>> intercepted for speaking the truth
>> Art is a gift , poetry is a weapon of mass instruction, Zimbabwe is the
>> country I know , country I was born , a country I know best of caves
>> ,heroes, plains ,meadows and rivers
>> A country rich but a stolen country, stolen of truth, stolen of love ,
>> stolen of free speech
>> poets are national assets , recorders of history , fortunetellers of past
>> ,present and future
>> We do not to agree to make a country and to build peace
>> I thought the second republic is for all in the republic .
>> I never knew it is of the selected few ,
>> Iam voice crying in the wilderness , son of the soil haunted at home by
>> minions of the state and l thrown into wild bushes for hyenas to feed on
>> Which crime have committed that makes me unwanted and unZimbabwean
>> Thebones of mothers cry for me in the land of my birth, bones of my fathers
>> are weeping for me
>> Zimbabwe carry the throne , thistle , roses, pain, laughter , hope and cries
>> of my people
>> For when Zimbabwe and security minions give me a break
>> Is it a crime to write the poetic grafitti of crude truth
>> For when shall we remain praise singers of some things that do not praise
>> I always thought as griots our role is to sing truth Power and then
>> corridors of power are sanitized
>> Truth is the only detergent washing the dirty linen of the state and we walk
>> clean ,loved and United
>> Mine is not a violent statement , it is a message to remind you that iam
>> citizen , a child of Zimbabwe , haunted by securocratic intelligence inside
>> and outside the country
>> The second republic as I was taught is the dispensation of truth, free
>> speech and embraces all
>> We all got faults from high ranks of power ,
>> I have written no placards but poetry, my slogan is poetry of resistance
>> If I die today , tommorow or the day after I know that I died telling the
>> truth to power
>> Death by the way the way of God , I have sacrificed to die writing true
>> poetry immersed in jugs of satire and dishes crude imagery
>> I have lived a life as a defender of truth, as a writer of raw metaphor
>> Expressing the hard feelings of my pain and the pain at home
>> I will not weep on my death, but my death is not a way to surrender ,it is
>> to say, there is always that time to rest, to leave others carrying on with
>> the revolutionary literary candles
>> If you are true , you lay a wreath alongside my poetic peers on my supposed
>> shallow grave
>> They will call me homeless , country less , fatherless and motherless
>> But some will say here lies a poet , a griot , a son of the soil ,a fighter
>> and all
>> But if I don't die tonight I will continue the fight for truth and I know
>> one day you will see the truth of my resistance poetry and protest letters
>> and I will be buried decently next to the caves of my ancestors
>> I have done my prayers that even in dreams ,death , life or writing , I will
>> not be defeated,
>> This is my epitaph to the man that is myself , a man who has fought many
>> struggles
>> Iam rejected , haunted and persecuted by his own people
>> Where are you mr president
>> My brilliance, my shallowness, my poetry, my controversial political
>> commentary and my hybrid narratives are an assert to the land dipped in
>> tanks of corruption, murky waters of political toxicity,unfairness and other
>> I respect those doing good , fighting to build the nation but there is an
>> elephant in the room injustice, human rights abuses, lack of free speech and
>> corruption
>> I respect those speaking the truth and every time they are gagged
>> President, iam a griot crying in the wilderness
>> MbizoChirasha is the Founder of the Zimbabwe We Want Poetry Campaign ,2017
>> Founder of the Time of the Poet Republic, miombopublishing.org
>> Editor of the BraveVoicesPoetryJournal, bravevoicespoetry.home.blog
>> Editor of the Womawordsliterary press, womawordsliterary.home.blog
>> African Contributor, Monk arts and soul magazine, UK
>> African Contributor, Oxford School of. Poetry , BlackwellPamplet
>> AfricanContributor,FamAsia Magazine
>> UNESCORILA Affiliated artist,gla.ac.uk
>> Ihraf.org/mbizochirasha
>> Coeditor, Second Name of the Earth is Peace, an anti war global poetry
>> collection(WorldBeyondWAr.org)
>> Author, A Letter to the President, a poetry collection
>> Author ,Pilgrims of Zame, a collection of hybrid narratives
>> Coauthor of Metaphors of Rainbow
>> Coeditor of Corpses of Unity , a global collection
>>
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