Best Malawian Poems

Limerick: Once a Woman-Cleanser in Malawi

     for Seodi White

Once (a) Widow-Cleanser* in Malawi
Insisted (on) being paid double fee
The dead man made certain
Left gift (on) this side (of) curtain
Now Cleanser on (the) dole with H.I.V.

•	The “Widow-Cleanser” is a Malawian professional
“intermediate husband” of...

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Miles that I have gone,
The things that I have known,
Some things that their beauty can be seen even in the 
dawn,
Mostly on earth plants that have been sawn.

Flowers and their beauty,
To brighten is their duty,
Their leaves smoothly,
Some of them even fruity.

Always I had seen roses...

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Memory !
What a brainstorm your are
A translation of nature so beauteous than ever
An illustrated Cupid in my imaginations
With your arrows pointing to sweet bitter notion
You diffuse in a viral motion in my veins
With my gaze I descend deeply into you my core
Luminous intensity of flash...

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Half your time spent 
stuffing bags in the ceiling
but the face of corruption 
is surprisingly appealing
I remember asking;
Who has the keys to this 
cash gate
The one the finances the 
cashier and his fat date
the one that keeps the 
orphan clinging to his 
round plate
for him...

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Why Poverty
Turned to be 
Malawian Poetry 
while we have 
the lands and 
Young People?
It is impossible 
And 
Unbelievable 
In this time. 
Let us stand 
Up 
Say together "Stand up!" 
Very up 
and 
destroy
our biggest Enemy 
which is called 
Poverty. 
Let us focus 
On the Ideologies...

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