Best Mozambique Poems

At a place where life is tested by things out of our control. 
where human life depends largely on a pill and faith. 
To see the looks on the children's faces. 
Hope for the briefest of moments. 
Pay it forward we preach. 
But how? 
What...

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FOR THE BOYS TO MEN OF MOZAMBIQUE
   (APROPOS CONDOMS FOR PEACE)

PRESCRIPT:

The tinted thin twisted twine
hued with the colors of sunshine
wraps around the cold blown latex
creating full balls to kick away the pain.

Happiness is a child’s game
chasing away the pangs of hunger
lingering in the...

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Mozambique 
 
 
From shimmering oil
of ebony still
 
will come flailing of limbs
will come hacking
 
quick slashing
of hands now untied
 
tattooing no pattern
not even a maze
 
depriving gray walls
of their stone
 
will come spittle
wild churning rivers
 
agush from slack jaws
of blanching gray hounds 

till one...

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