Your link to Africa
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As published in Travel Africa Magazine Edition 16 Summer 2001 Pause for Poetry I first travelled to Africa in a converted
Lancaster Bomber over 50 years ago. I have lived in South Africa and Nigeria
and spend most of my holidays in Africa. I have just returned from my fourth
visit to the Victoria Falls (the first was in 1976). I wrote the following
poem, which is about my favourite place in the world. DAWN Electricity-struck flotsam I am tossed by the waves onto your dark beach to wait in your cold until your black dog nuzzles me to
your notice I am cleaned of my sand with
other jetsam to await my rebirth Take me home to be caressed by
your northern waves to feel your blazing logs
without charring to see your frosty brittle
stars I'll take you home to hear my
thundering smoke to wrap you in my river, my
velvety southern sky, to hear my sounds, to feel my
sun, to taste my African dawn - Bridget Medley, Wiltshire |
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