Mandelas Birthday Poem

(Today is Tata MANDELA’S birthday. Freedom lovers all over South Africa are celebrating his legacy of Compassionate Love. I wrote this poem on his birthday when he was still alive. I am so grateful that I was humbled to serve in his government whilst he was President of the First National Democratic Government in South Africa. At the time I wrote it, I was living opposite a pine forest. ) MANDELA’S BIRTHDAY POEM All is radiantly translucent Drops of water sit in Silence on trees in sunshine Aloe reflect themselves In flooded ponds Tasks are listed Pines reach for the sky Where clouds ripple lace across A stretched out blueness Dogs bark Workers to work Students to school Earth holds us in the full Awareness of our own power to Change ! Happy Birthday Cherished leader ©GhairoDanielsPoetry&Song2011 SEE POEM READ BY POET ON YOUTUBE @ghairodanielspresence