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#ThursPoetry is back this week, in partnership with our friends at Gourd of Consciousness, for brand new Zimbabwean original poems.
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure is a British-born Zimbabwean bilingual author who resides in Wales. She spent her childhood in Masvingo, Zimbabwe where she completed her education at Victoria Primary School and Victoria High School respectively. She returned to the United Kingdom in 1999 after completing her A Levels. She studied Law and Business Administration at the University of Kent in Canterbury and proceeded to study a Postgraduate Diploma in European Politics, Business and Law at the University of Surrey. Samantha is an award-winning poet whose poetry collection titled Starfish Blossoms won in the outstanding poetry book category at National Arts Merit Award 2023 (NAMA). She works as a regulatory consultant in financial services. She founded Carnelian Heart Publishing Ltd in April 2020.
POEM
Title: When my teenage daughter asks me whether mermaids smoke seaweed
Location: Wales
I experience an epiphany. An abused mother is too sore and too drained
to nurture her children the way Mother Nature intended her to. Her heart
was ripped out by a silverback gorilla who chewed her entrails and spat them
out into its huge hands when she didn’t taste right, and it remembered that
bamboo was its favourite food. It tossed her tattered innards and battered
her up before feasting on the fibrous canes. Then it told her:
Gorillas only attack humans when they feel threatened.
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