Poems About Africa by Top Critiquers

in the heart of auburn equatorial sun    
drumming wild with wet thunderbeats    
of shrinking craniums & surfacing    
uraniums- with  winking tricky glints    
of golden diamonds, busy feeding    
the bloodied cartels    
   
where also the social bonobos    
still thrive in the feminine reigns    
enriched by the gushing wide    
riverine Congo & the falling high    
Zongo in sand~ slurried screens    
   
   
i stand    (fading pale and blinded    
as a frailly miniature grouped out ant     ...

Let us spend our nights under the same mosquito net,
Consummating what has grown up between us since we met.
In the safari lodge below the African sky
We can lie together as the outside world goes by,
Under that net at end of the day we can undress;
The insects may see, but never touch, the nakedness
Of us, two human creatures who make love not war,
For whom the Kenyan natural world fills us with awe.
Thus we can have intimate, passionate nights,
Our bodies untouched by the dreaded mosquito bites.
The linking of our bodies, one male, one...

My Lioness Flickers Between Serengeti Moonbeams        

Our African vacation starts at a luxury hotel in Nairobi. But I pine for a photographic safari into the Serengeti. Over breakfast, I break some news for Jane. “Hey let’s try this on for size. Jane, I want to take you on a safari into Tanzania. Maybe we’ll have an adventure like in a J.G. Ballard novel.”
She says, “You’re so crazy, but truly we could face off with a pride of lions looking for supper. The signs ain’t good darling. The continental breakfast bar at this hotel is more than enough for me. We can go to the...

The rickety bus jolted as we were driven across the only real desert in Africa . I'm trying to stay positive pushing back thoughts of how easily it would be for the old bus to break down at any moment    
I decided to dismiss the thought because we had finally reached Cape Town. I couldn't wait to see all of it and film everything in sight    
But it wasn't  in the cards as things changed in a split second. Suddenly , I feared the worse as our bus was flagged down by two men    
They were  white men that climbed aboard with guns in hand wearing nothing to disguise what they...