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I Can’t Get Enough Of It
By Ndaba Sibanda

Please, please
take me there,
Let me lose myself to it,
Let me have a feel, a blast,
Let me tuck into it, not once, not the last!

Please let me loose,
I seek to spoil myself and unwind…
until all my woes cannot be seen or found!
Yes, let me voyage and get lost in the warm heart
and embrace and love and loveliness
of the astonishing Matobo National Park!

Fun galore…
Nature’s bliss mollifies
my soul at the Maleme Dam,
No, I want to go wild and spring
over the giant granite boulders
overlooking the dam.
The reptiles assured me,
they said come and roll,
please come and have a ball.
I have a must-attend meeting with
the gregarious reptiles there too!
On the agenda is fun and fun,
We shall sit on those rocks and
chit-chat. No biting business today!

By the way, I would like to reach
the summit of Malindindzimu,
“the hill of benevolent spirits”
and experience the wonder
Cecil Rhodes called
“View of the World.”

The San’s rock paintings
will certainly rock and
roll with me.

I am an ever-hungry consumer of
information, so the interpretive museum
at the Pomongwe Caves will come in handy!

Oh please take me there,
I want to feel home,
I want to feel the majestic African sun
brighten me up. Its rays kiss my face
and forehead with tenderness.

Please accompany me to the Whovi Wild Area,
which is home to several bird species
and lots of species of mammals.
Oh what a sight…
Look at the black and white rhinoceros,
the zebra, the giraffe, the antelope, the leopard,
the flat-footed cheetah, the brown hyena.

I am a big fan of guided walks and pony trails.
Of course l will go fishing in some
of the dams in the Matobo National Park
before I disappear into one of those thatched lodges.
I need to slow down, cool down a little. Re-energize.
Tuck into something finger-licking good. Here I know
they serve one with mouth-watering stuff and comfort!

On the following day another paradise
waits for me. The mighty Victoria
Falls! This is Africa, dear. I can’t
get enough of this continent’s
heavenly tourist centers.


Intoxicating Songs and Sights
By Ndaba Sibanda

I just like to stray into the forest each time I visit the countryside
How I like to immerse myself into its thickness and feel the
awesomeness of Mother Nature surge into my veins

The proximity to a life undiluted intoxicates my spirits
I heed the birds’ advice as they sing their happy
harmonies in their charming and chirping ways

Their serenading expertly makes love to my eardrums
I can’t tell you how the creepy reptiles wow me
to no end as they wiggle and jiggle in their
amazing fashion to their hazy habitats

I marvel at the beauty of vegetation
and condemn deforestation
in the strongest possible
terms.

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Ndaba Sibanda’s poems, essays and short stories have been featured in many and various journals and magazines like: The Piker Press, Bricolage, The Dying Goose, Whispering Prairie Press, Saraba Magazine and AllAfrica.com. He is from Zimbabwe and lives in Kuwait.