Scatterlings

 

 

I have left my laughter in stations forgotten

Lost and gone to echo down tracks forlorn

No one to bring home as the peels scattered 

 

Forgotten broadcasts in fields barely known

Abandoned to find reception fading alone

Uncertain welcome like refugees scattered

 

Knowing only transient rooting, wandering,

Recalling hopes of migratory ancestors meandering

Soundings in passages and places scattered

 

Rendering to the memory the unforgotten

To show the world I was begotten

As I pass through life and at death be scattered.

 .

Farai Madzimbamuto

August 2009

Haiku

 

Haiku muchiShona

 

Haiku rudzi rwekudetemba muChiJapani. Mitemo yacho yehaiku [kuhaika] muChiJapani yakaoma asi vanyori vemimwe mitauro yakaita seChiHingirishi vari kutamba nemanyorerwo ehaiku nenzira dzino pindirana nemitauro yavo.

 

Inonyorwa iri mitsetse mitatu chete. Chimwewo ndechekuti zvinotoda kuti pave nongedzo yemwaka.

 

misodzi

Misodzo pahwindo

ekunze kunaya, mukati mwando

ndafunga kumusha, maziso mokoto.

 

mvura

Mvura mutuvi

ino sveta kana dombo

ropa igukura.

 

mwana

mwana wazvarwa

ruva ravhurika, meso machena

gare gare guva.

 

mwedzi

mwedzi wachena

pasi muponorwa, denga musvuu

dariro renyeredzi.

 

 Farai Madzimbamuto

 

Haiku

 

teyoupfumi

Ndaiti zvimwe mudyandigere

Muteyo wehupfumi

Nanga kuposha vamwe.

 

pagomo

pagomo papfigwa

ndararisa murapwi

ndanzwa. Nhau mapopopo.

 

mvura yaipa

ashaya, ndanaya

avigwa ini ndayambuka

imvura dzaipa

 

gwema

zvanzi kwedu kwaita mauni

anenge gwema

chandoziva kwaita gonye.

usiku

kwadoka ndotya rima

usiku hunoreba kuchamhembe

pfungwa igwindingwi

 

paindaneti

paindaneti panotaurwa zvakawanda

anobvotomuka, seari pabira

zvoerera nenguva serwizi

 

kuora

mwedzi ukaora nhai

pane chinoitika  ?

ko nyika ?

rudo

ndakadana newe kure

pfungwa dzedu

makomo  epedyo

 

obama

tafara varungu vada Obama

isu tingasarure muRungu ?

sarura wako nhamo ichauya.

 

kumusha

kwava kumusha ndekupi

kudzinza ? ko kwevana ?

ndafunga mango, ndoona chando.

 

muchato

musi wanda chata kwainaya

kuno chando, kwedu zhizha

ruviri viri, asi rufu ega ega.

pfungwa

rima kuva ndega nepfungwa

pavanhu ndini neziso rangu

pfungwa imbeu, munhu mumwe

 

Farai Madzimbamuto

Oct 2008

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