This Blues Thing is Us: Ke Kgale Re Tshwenyeha (For ntate Nchipi Phillip Tabane) before your planned action our feet constructed pathways we’ve been moving here before do not harm the free motion of our bodies with arranged movement your prepared melody with its calculated harmony is in disharmony with the spontaneous tinkling of the birds in the air echoed in the unpretentious refrain of our swift response to the holler of the cane grooving to the puff of the wind before you kill our swing with your stuck-up structure & order show us any order and timing in the wild rush of the waves and the calm sigh of the sea we have been here long enough to know how the sight of the rage of the marching waves quietens storms in troubled hearts how it takes anguished hearts to know that without song the spirit cannot ascend that it takes trampled minds & wretched souls to blow the horns & beat the drum for the sake of getting the spirit listen…. the blues is how we live this jazz is how we speak there is life in this swing we have suffered long enough to know for sure this getting happy is not a simple stuff
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:18:16 +0000
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