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    Random Heart Poetry - Light and Shade
    Random Heart Poetry - Light and Shade
    Random Heart Poetry - Light and Shade
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    Random Heart Poetry - Light and Shade

    By Mala Naidoo

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    Random Heart Poetry: Light and Shade is a collection of voices and visions on race, culture, migration, gender, family, seasons and more on everyday experiences that speak to the soul in 'aha' moments. Poems range from haiku form to sonnets and free verse.

    While the shade poems capture moments of angst the light poems offer inspiration in embracing the beauty of life as one to be celebrated.

    Random Heart Poetry reflects the ordinariness of life experience illustrating Perfection in Imperfection.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMala Naidoo
    Release dateMar 31, 2020
    ISBN9780648485483
    Random Heart Poetry - Light and Shade
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    Mala Naidoo

    Mala Naidoo is an Australian author. She was born in South Africa during the apartheid era which is the impetus for her fictional stories. Mala believes literature speaks through the values and culture of its characters, instilling understanding when readers connect to a moment in time, an event or conversation that brings clarity to daily existence. Mala Naidoo is the author of Across Time and Space, Vindication Across Time, Souls Of Her Daughters, Chosen Lives, and The Rain - A Collection of Short Stories.

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      Random Heart Poetry - Light and Shade - Mala Naidoo

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      Women

      She is Woman

      Grandmother of generations

      Mother of life

      Daughter who carried forth

      The candle Divine

      Sister who cried with us

      Girlfriend forever there 

      Wife of the wilful

      Granddaughter of Grace

      Lighting a star-laden sky

      Basking in maternal warmth 

      Drawn from eternal strength

      Touched by compassion

      Serene and ceaseless

      She is woman 

      Carrying hope beyond time

      Mama Africa

      Dewy mornings, hot days, warm nights

      Lush rolling hills and starry skies

      Graceful impala, giraffe and springbok

      Adorn the landscape

      Down in the valley smoke

      Trickles atop a thatched roof

      Eyes open to sun’s rays

      Pap bubbles on a coal stove

      With a rainbow scarf

      Swirled to crown her head

      Her long swishing gown

      Caresses her ankles

      She hums the song of motherhood

      Body swaying in rhythm

      To soothe and protect

      To love and support

      To nourish and grow

      Her babies too adorn the landscape

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      Symbols of Light

      Salt of the Earth

      Dark shadows light up

      In a heavenly promise

      Withered winter leaves

      Spring forth in radiant splendor

      Snowy acres melt into the earth

      The locked soul’s key

      Rests with self-love

      For who will love thee

      Without the light of self-love? 

      Love orbits where love shines 

      Honor the salt within

      To be cherished in return 

      Nature’s resilient child

      Springs back to life

      Lit in the blood, bone and salt of the earth

      Diminished

      (First published as ‘Light Within’ in A Spark of Hope Vol 11)

      Crushed by the immoral conduct

      Of untold hostile human attitude 

      I retreated into dark solitude 

      Where the safety of diminished light

      Was a promised refuge ever so slight 

      Then in the silence of that

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