#THURSPOETRY: Aleck Kaposa

#ThursPoetry returns this week thanks to our friends at Gourd of Consciousness Poetry.

Aleck Kaposa is a teacher and writer who has been writing since his days at Ellis Robins Boys High School. He holds diplomas in teaching and training and has taught at primary and secondary levels. He is the author of A Bag of Memories,(short stories, pub 2013),several children’s story books among them, The Big Yellow Train, There was a Fly and The Magician(2017), which in 2018 got him another NAMA AWARD nomination in the OUTSTANDING CHILDREN’S BOOK category.

Kaposa is also a 2020 NAMA nominee in the OUTSTANDING CHILDREN’S BOOK CATEGORY with his book “Kuku wins the Presidents Clean Environment Award”. In 2004 Kaposa founded and edited The New Voices Magazine for which he got his first nomination in the 2008 NAMA awards in Outstanding First Creative Published Work category. Features on his literary work have appeared in The Sunday Mail, The Herald, Newsday, Daily News,H-Metro, The Standard, The Zimbabwean, Kwayedza and The Times and the Internet. Since 1998 Kaposa has published short stories and poetry in various media including Knowtown News and The New Voices Magazine. In 2000 he was the Coordinator at Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) Live Literature Centre. In 2009 he founded a private school, Norton Education Centre, which he runs as Principal and Director. In 2018 he founded the Norton Children’s Book Festival & Business Expo and had some of his poems were published in BEST NEW AFRICAN POETRY 2018.

POEM

Will rise again
I will rise again
tomorrow
after the stillborn dream
has been coldy dreamt
after the long-awaited bliss
has been castrated
after the needle
has pierced the most delicate flesh
after hope’s cadaver has been interred
and tears have been shed
after time has washed away the pain
the wounds will heal
and i will dream again
I will be a sun
and rise again.