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Tari Mtetwa

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It took countless seconds
to ceaselessly wave an untiring hand
around the clock
many sabbaths
to rest cumbersome labours
finally the year hangs
compressed in digits and letters
on a colourful calendar
it seems the times through it
were as easy

© 2011, Tari Mtetwa
Publisher: First published on PIW,

Tari Mtetwa

Tari Mtetwa

(Zimbabwe, 1982)

Tarisai Witness Mtetwa was born at St Augustine’s Mission near Mutare, and had a largely rural upbringing. He attended both primary and secondary school at St Augustine’s. Mtetwa began writing poetry at high school. “Even though I was not in a literature class,” he says, “I earnestly read all the books that fellow students were studying. I then developed an interest in literature, poetry in par...

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NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE A RIVER

First

Naked

GRAVE-DEEP WHISTLER

Rock

Here

WITHOUT-A-NAME

POTTER’S SONG

Outside

OLD SCHOOL JAM SESSION ON RADIO

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The Calendar

It took countless seconds
to ceaselessly wave an untiring hand
around the clock
many sabbaths
to rest cumbersome labours
finally the year hangs
compressed in digits and letters
on a colourful calendar
it seems the times through it
were as easy

The Calendar

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