Poems About Africa by Top Critiquers

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...

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     ...