Inspired Silence

Poems & Excerpts – Seeing and writing, thinking and doing

Category: Zimbabwe

  • Zimbabwe Echoes

    Zimbabwe Echoes

    Today is one of those days where I can hear the echoes of Zimbabwe in my ears. Its cold winter chill grabs hold of my neck and its Saligna wood fires fill my nose with smoke. I can see Godknows running through an intersection selling his inflatable toys while I haphazardly maneuver around an overloaded…

  • T.I.A.

    T.I.A.

    Heard gunshots outside bedroom window last night… 11 of them, but they seemed far off. While standing on the balcony listening for more shots amid the responding cacophony of a hundred dogs, I saw a shooting star, and in that brief moment realized how small we are beneath the heavens. In Africa, as in elsewhere,…