And the waves arrived.
Swimming in like hump-backed divers
With their finds from far-away seas.
Their lustre gave the illusion pearls
As shorewards they shoved up mighty canoes
And looked like the carcass of drifting whales.
And our sight misled us
When the sun's glint on the spear's blade
Passed for lightning
And the gun-fire of conquest
The thunderbolt that razed the forest.
So did our days change their garb
From hides of leopard skin
To prints of false lions
That fall in tatters
Like the wings of whipped butterflies.
Mbella Sonne Dipoko
Mbella Sonne Dipoko (1936 in Douala – December 5, 2009 in Tiko ) was a novelist , poet and painter from Cameroon . He is widely considered to be one of the foremost writers of Anglophone Cameroonian literature.
Swimming in like hump-backed divers
With their finds from far-away seas.
Their lustre gave the illusion pearls
As shorewards they shoved up mighty canoes
And looked like the carcass of drifting whales.
And our sight misled us
When the sun's glint on the spear's blade
Passed for lightning
And the gun-fire of conquest
The thunderbolt that razed the forest.
So did our days change their garb
From hides of leopard skin
To prints of false lions
That fall in tatters
Like the wings of whipped butterflies.
Mbella Sonne Dipoko
Mbella Sonne Dipoko (1936 in Douala – December 5, 2009 in Tiko ) was a novelist , poet and painter from Cameroon . He is widely considered to be one of the foremost writers of Anglophone Cameroonian literature.
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ReplyDeleteThe poem has reminded me of how Africans have lost a great heritage when "our sight misled us" to mimic a heritage we can never find comfort from. to mimic a culture that appears so distant that even if the generations to come decide to embrace it,they will look like "the tortoise with feathers." Very absurd you know?
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