Poet of the Week from Botswana: Baralong Seboni

Poet of the Week from Botswana: Baralong Seboni 

Happy Thanksgiving!  This week's poet of the week is Baralong Seboni from Botswana!  Following is a link in which the poet explains the reason he writes.   I especially enjoyed his comment at the paper's closing in which he explains 'how' he writes: "I simply shut my mouth, open my mind and listen to my heart."  

Why Seboni writes what he writes

I thought that his poem below was one to which I could relate.  I enjoyed that he didn't mask a straightforward message behind layers of metaphors.  Sometimes it's enough just to say it.

Love that

Inner sense

Of innocence

That craves eternally

The momentary

Experience in

The oneness

Of

twosome

Images of the Sun by Seboni

Seboni recites a poem on youtube


FUUO Past Poets of the Week:
http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2012/05/african-poets-of-week-compilation.html

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