Monday 2 October 2017

Msasa Season



Somewhere under the dry, cracked earth, a match
Is lit, and flame is fanned by August wind,
Setting fire to the roots set deep in hills:
The air is garnet-filtered radiance.
Flickers of bronze and gold and rusty red
Fuse in extravagant pin-pricked grandeur.

This is the fire that births new life, not death.
Memory: the ancient wisdom and wonder
Before innocent expectation green -
Emerges in first light against blue hills.

It is a brief moment of majesty,
The blazing glory of deep-down magic
Stirring to remind the observant soul
To source the echo in the fire. 

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