Here is another Great African Poem from an African Writer
BLACK WOMAN
Naked woman, black woman
Clothed with your colour which is life, with your form
which is beauty
In your shadows I have grown up; the gentleness
of your hands was laid over my eyes
And now, high up on the sun-baked pass, at the heart of the
summer, at the heart of the noon,
I come upon you my promised land
And your beauty strikes me to the heart like the flash of an eagle
Naked Woman, dark woman.
Firm-fleshed ripe fruit, sombre raptures of black wine,
mouth-making lyrical by mouth
Savannah stretching to clear horizons, savannah shuddering beneath
the East-wind's eager caresses
Carved tom-tom, taut tom-tom muttering under the Conqueror's fingers
Your solemn contralto song is the spiritual song of the Beloved.
Naked Woman, Dark Woman.
Oil that no breath ruffles, calm oil on the athlete's
flank, on the flanks on the Princes of Mali
Gazelle limb in Paradise, pearls are
stars on the night of your skin
Delights of the mind, the glinting of the red
gold against your watered skin
Under the shadows of your hair, my care is lightened by
the neighbouring suns of your eyes
Naked Woman, Black Woman ,
I sing your beauty that passes, the form that I fix in the eternal
Before jealous fate turns you to ashes and feed
the roots of life
THE END
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