Nov 2015
a life-size study against the backdrop
of a silent ebony door in freeze motion
still as a queen in contemplative mood
and settled like a sonorous afternoon
it was a picture of loveliness in the morning
decked in black and spotting thick dreadlocks
picture of woman: a study in poise and splendour
accentuated by infectious warmth and inherited wisdom
until she moved as we all must in time and on occasion do
that was when i knew she was flesh and blood and a live woman
transient and gorgeous as most things human tend to be
and the frown of her corrugated brow was like a shadow in my life
of a silent ebony door in freeze motion
still as a queen in contemplative mood
and settled like a sonorous afternoon
it was a picture of loveliness in the morning
decked in black and spotting thick dreadlocks
picture of woman: a study in poise and splendour
accentuated by infectious warmth and inherited wisdom
until she moved as we all must in time and on occasion do
that was when i knew she was flesh and blood and a live woman
transient and gorgeous as most things human tend to be
and the frown of her corrugated brow was like a shadow in my life
A Ghanaian girl called Ruth was standing close to a closed door supervising work that was going on in a conference room at The Tang Palace Hotel in Accra. From the distance I thought she was a life-sized portrait. That was until she moved and broke the still motion. I decided to capture the experience in a poem. (David Mungoshi 2015 at the Tang Palace Hotel in Accra Ghana 7th November 2015).
(Gweru, Zimbabwe)
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