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Poems in Revolution Recollected and New Struggle Poems deal with, among other issues, the North African uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and intersects into the Middle East conflicts in Syria, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the never ending conflict between Israel and Palestine. These poems previously came out under Revolution: Struggle Poems, published in 2015, and the rest of the poems are from my latest poetry collection I am currently working on entitled Disobedience Poems. Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a Zimbabwean publisher, editor, mentor, thinker, literary artist, visual artist and musical artist with over 40 books published. He writes in English and Shona.

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Publié par	Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
Date de parution	10 janvier 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781779272522
Langue	English
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Revolution R ev o l u t i o n R e c o l l e c t e d Recollected AND Ne w St rug AND New Struggle Poems gl e Po ems

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

REVOLUTIONRecollected and New Struggle Poems Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, Chitungwiza Zimbabwe * Creativity, Wisdom and Beauty

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Table of Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………...vThe Tunisian Revolution……………………………………………….1 Why Am I suddenly Responsible for Nelson Chamisa’s Spaghetti Roads Complex: Tendai Rinos Mwanaka for Nyanga North Constituency in 2023?.....................................................................................................................2 The Egyptian Revolution………………………………………………3 Here, Now……………………………………………………………...5 The Libyan war………………………………………………………....6 #ZimbabweanLivesMatterand the Villager……………………………8 The Ivory Coast war……………………………………………………9 Rivers of Despair……………………………………………………...10 The real nuclear threat………………………………………………...12 Sexually Transmitted Leadership……………………………………...13 Caesar’s breathe……………………………………………………….14 Team Israel……………………………………………………………17 Team Palestine………………………………………………………...17 The Middle East Game……………………………………………….18 Perpetuating 1967……………………………………………………..20 Nazi Israel…………………………………………………………….22 For Her You Arrested Yesterday……………………………………..24 The rush to own………………………………………………………26 Infinity………………………………………………………………...29 Doing A Camus……………………………………………………….31 Fundamentalism………………………………………………………32 Is this the "next Rwanda?"……………………………………………33 Every God…………………………………………………………….36 Karma’s “shoe” list……………………………………………………37 Undying echoes……………………………………………………….38 A text for Haiti………………………………………………………..39 Licking Wounds………………………………………………………42 Murphy’s un-thought………………………………………………….44 SOMALIA, “the death walk”…………………………………………45

Untitled……………………………………………………………….47 Euro burning………………………………………………………….48 The Shadow Now Gone………………………………………………49 Fermi’s paradox……………………………………………………….50 US grand political theatre……………………………………………...51 for the mullahs in Iran………………………………………………...53 He Was Never Free…………………………………………………...55 Syrian Unrest………………………………………………………….57 We had no right to be there…………………………………………..59 We don’t need another war: NOT IRAN!....................................................61 An enemy inside………………………………………………………63 2, 5 years of Obamania(less)…………………………………………..65 Nobel Prize 2009……………………………………………………...66 REVOLUTIONS: The sparrow’s fall…………………………………68 The king’s burden……………………………………………………..69 Is The Remainder Of The Way So Long……………………………...70 Gadaffism: Gone!..............................................................................................72 Autumn……………………………………………………………….74 Revolution re-focussing……………………………………………….75 It took a Judas………………………………………………………...76 Bahrain/Yemen/Saudi Arabia- the music of the triangle……………..77 A text for Baga………………………………………………………..78 ECB vs The Federal Reserve: Dead wood institutions………………..81 Squatter slums………………………………………………………....82 CORPORATISM vs. PEOPLE: occupy Wall Street………………….84 The benched refugee………………………………………………….86 Bibi Aisha of Afghanistan……………………………………………..87 POC…………………………………………………………………..89 Pretty this grief………………………………………………………..90 Terror war: through the eyes of Bush and Cheney……………………91 Saying what’s already said……………………………………………...94 Drone Attacks………………………………………………………...96 Mmap New African Poets Series……………………………………....97

Introduction his anthology was primarily inspired by the Middle East uprising Ta decade ago, and I wrote most of the poems as the events unfolded thus the poems read like essay poems (some form of prose poems that are steeped into the real social events and straddles both the essay form and poetry inflection). And these poems previously came out underRevolution: Struggle Poems, published in 2015, and the rest of the poems are coming from my latest poetry collection I am currently working on entitledDisobedience poems Poems in this collection deals with among other issues, the North African uprising in Tunisia, Egypt, the war in Libya, and intersects into the middle east conflicts in Syria which 10 years later is still on-going, and in the process creating the worse refugee problem ever, with at least 9million Syrians now living outside of Syria. It also looks at the other countries in the Middle East like Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the never ending conflict between Israel and Palestine There are poems about the economic problems that bedevilled the world post-2008 US crash, how each country affected was trying to deal with the situation, and how in America it later inspired the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, the 99 percent vs 1 percent fight, and how upto now that hasn’t been resolved, with the 1 percent getting more richer. And other poems look at religion, and how it is used to enslave people, and I did this by focussing on the world’s most influential religions, Bhudhaism, Christianity, Islam etc, how religion is now another yoke that has enslaved us. The other poems deal with the Zimbabwean situation. The lack of wherewithal for an end to Zimbabweans political problems, the refugee crisis and xenophobic attacks it created in South Africa which are still the staple of the day. Other countries with struggle problems I lighted on were Central African Republic, theSomalia’s Al-shabab terrorists, the Haitian post-earthquake struggle stories, Nigeria’s Boko

Haram. I also lighted on the terrorism war through the Bush/Cheney eyes and how the two used the law to abuse suspected terrorists through inhuman methods like waterboarding, the drone attacks, the senseless bombing of other countries like Pakistan etc. I also lighted on race issues, how the western wars are always about racial prejudice. I experimented with all sorts of styles, forms, creating concrete poetry, visual poetry, ekphrasis, essay poems, number poetry etc….

The Tunisian Revolution It started with Mohamed Bouziz, gunning an unstoppable bullet with his death. He was 26, married, and married with children. Had a university degree, couldn’t find employment. Had a market place, was a hawker, selling…his things confiscated by a woman police. He Had protested and she slapped him, the humiliation of it all! An Arab woman slapping an Arab man, is unthinkable? He tried to pursue the case with the authorities, they ignored his complaint. He committed suicide, electrocuting himself, the speaking protest, an untidy rhythm. The suicide started humming, like winter metal. Tunisia exploded and Bennali was kicked out, creating debate leaf-shaped points, across the Arab world....The Arab world: is now a boiling pot... One country after another, each, a long Moor’s hour, from unriboning decades of dictatorships.

Why Am I suddenly Responsible for Nelson Chamisa’s Spaghetti Roads Complex: Tendai Rinos Mwanaka for Nyanga North Constituency in 2023? So if you want me to be a politician with a religious syndrome, just look at Nelson Chamisa’s preaching everyone down to the hades. The emperor Nero thinks he is a fucking African Jesus. So if you want to be in a party that talks vote rigging into winning an election, look at the MDC. Oh please! Don’t ask me which MDC? Everything with that moniker, including even their front porches. Even when I had reached the near insanity of Matendadama, followed by Malema’s comical theft of 100 minutes of Cereal Ramapostponer’s SONA address, I am nowhere near Nero’s eclectic vaulting blues; moving and flying everywhere from his village airport of Gutu North. Who cares which part of Wezhara Province the vibes are issuing from? What you need to understand is how to be under the influence of Chaunga (multitudes). And the Chihuahuas Mbiti, Jobho wemaronda, and Mwuorora barking the little boys and little girls (I mean Boy = ma(H)wende + girl = Maheremuka) into silence.Quiet, quiet, quiet enters the place…Not to talk of the Super Beer has insulted me. Cartons of super, rice, sugar (graders that level the roads every election year) allowing the super beer to transport the sugar and rice to buy back the vote. If you want me to win the Nyanga North Constituency I have to cat fight marujata Ghupa and the quiet discerning “strategic” eye of the professor Wales whose man and IDiot “Nehanda nyakasikana” Munyangagwa… the two play them like the tambourine man.... 24/7 melodic dwarf undertones.

The Egyptian Revolution Young babies, young children, young people out-welling, youngling, unwarping. Christians and Muslims taking us to the edge of intention and showing us what lies beyond doubt? Old men down-warping, fathers and mothers. The Israeli press called them stray dogs. But the figures kept ballooning. It started with tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, then millions... Cairo is bustling; a mass mortality horizon, Alexandria and Monsouri city are swamped. Tahrir, the liberation square is the hub of this monsoon chanting “The nation wants the ouster of the regime.”The day’s song is a lament drawn out like a final breath lost in the stars. Itsmillions wearing the country’s flag as if the pharaohs have thumped every other country at the CAF African nations cup to win it again. Jubilant, passionate, angry... It is a carnival atmosphere. It is a nation raising its bread, the symbol of its suffering and hunger. It is a nation crucifying effigies of its napoleon. It is a nation waving placards written with the fine point of their anger and pain “Mubarak go to hell”“America butt out”“Tel Aviv is mourning”“Mubarak leave-we want to live.”They name the forms of control, youths screaming for an open road to somewhere. Over 30 years of mis-governance, human rights abuses, curfews..., suffering. It is over 30 years in which America and Israel ruled by robot controlling Mubarak. Giving the top brass of army and security the loot of the 2 billion dollars, American taxpayer’s money: just to protect Israel. And Israel would joke