Poetic Healing--exploring love in the times of HIV and Aids.In July July: see month. , Ibis ibis (ī`bĭs), common name for wading birds with long, slender, decurved bills, found in the warmer regions of both hemispheres. The body is usually about 2 ft (61 cm) long. Most ibises nest in colonies. and [Spoken Word] in collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. with the Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre celebrated the ten best poems This is a list of poems that have a page about them in Wikipedia. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
See also Medicine. Achilles’ spear had power to heal whatever wound it made. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] Agamede Augeas’ daughter; noted for skill in using herbs for healing. [Gk. Myth. competition. The competition invited poets to explore the complexities of love in the times of HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. and Aids. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Why did the organisers choose love as the central theme, instead of throwing a more open question, such as how HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome affects your life? "We felt it was an issue pressuring from the inside, something we needed to verbalise, and something which is not given much attention in the spectrum of things which HIV/AIDS put its fingerprint fingerprint, an impression of the underside of the end of a finger or thumb, used for identification because the arrangement of ridges in any fingerprint is thought to be unique and permanent with each person (no two persons having the same prints have ever been on. Something nobody really speaks about ..." Itayi Duve and Annette Forsingdal explain in their foreword fore·word n. A preface or an introductory note, as for a book, especially by a person other than the author. foreword Noun an introductory statement to a book Noun 1. to the publication containing the best poems. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Already the day after we had advertised the competition, we started receiving the first poems. Soon we realised we had lifted the lid on a steaming issue. We were amazed a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. at the quality of the poems and not least the willingness of the poets to share some of their inner feelings and thoughts. The content of the overwhelming response gave us insight into understanding why HIV/AIDS is such a hard nut to crack. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The poems reveal the complexities of living in a high HIV-prevalence country when it comes to love and sex--being young, being naturally curious to explore love, sex and sexuality Sexuality Flowers of Evil, The thoroughly explore the possibilities of vice, depravity, and sin. [Fr. Poetry: Baudelaire The Flowers of Evil in Magill III, 399] Hite Report surveys men’s sexual habits and performance. , whether living with HIV or not. A new dimension has been added to falling in love, being loved, giving love or sharing love. And we are all in it." The two poems published here, both written by young women, won top honours honours or US honors Noun, pl 1. (in a university degree course) a rank or mark of the highest academic standard: an honours degree 2. observances of respect, esp. in the competition.
Unknown By You
Do you have any idea what effect you have on me?
I think about you all the time, I struggle in my mind.
How I disclose to you, the way I feel?
How I disclose to you, my deepest secret?
I wish I could tell you everything I know, everything I am.
For friends we are, we have learned to share,
Everything we got everything we know, everything we are.
We vow to protect each other.
My secret is buried deep in my appearance.
I can't bear it anymore I want to get close.
Is it dishonest to love you this way?
How will you react, if you only knew?
Show me what to do, show me you tolerate.
All I am all we are is a victim of epidemic.
In my mind I see, how it can be, once you know.
Is it all a dream, a fantasy? I am afraid to discover.
How you'll react.
For friends we are what can separate us.
The question remains.
Such a wonderful being you are, I am afraid to guess.
What your thoughts are.
Give me a clue.
--M. Amakali--
Tell Love
Tell love of my search for him
Crusades of my heart's promise
Floating on the clouds of this vast land
Sliding down banisters of forbidden fruit
Swirling in pools of perplexity
Hoping I might find love in the waters
My eyes evading sleep,
Whence my body has been dormant for hours
Drifting in love's possibilities
I'm trapped in a generation,
Where love has lost its romantic connotation
A lustful society's creation
A negative moral implication
Is it truly peer-pressure's persuasion?
Or is it the reality of HIV/AIDS?
I don't want to be the girl who gives sex for love
I don't want to be loved for sex
Tell love I may never be one with him
His acquaintance promiscuity is not in my favour
I dine with abstinence
Sip on the possibility of true love
Tell love I may never be one with him
Imagination's note book
Scribbled prince charming
Now I have a broken heart
I have never even loved
A broken heart -
For will I ever love?
My life
Prophesied, written
Now I must edit it
HIV/AIDS has affected my life
I don't want to fall prey to this hunter
So my life I must now rewrite ...
--Chiwimbiso (Bibi) Gava--
Artwork by Ismael Tjijenda. The publication Poetic Healing. An insightful collection from Namibian Poets is available from Ibis, Tel: 24 5556 |
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