SPECIAL NOTE: Link takes us to an article written by a frustrated young lady in Oslo, Norway, who feels she has no place to call home anywhere. Although my writing below may sound harsh, it is not personal. I am writing on the subject in general terms at her inspiration, from my, of course, highly subjective point of view. Believe me, I feel her pain, anger, and sorrow. I am a citizen of the world is another one of those idealistic statements of which poetry and literature are inspired. I am a citizen of the world as an emotional statement reeks of arrogance, ignorance, naiveté, self-centredness, patronization, and imperialistic tendencies. You don’t go calling yourself citizen of the world simply because you don’t feel at home in your country of birth, and/ or your host country if you are an exile in the Diaspora. It’s not up to you to declare yourself a world citizen, as if the world owes you any favours, to begin with …(Continued in the book: “MACHONA AWAKENING – home in grey matter”. Order book on Amazon’s CreateSpace here).
Simon Chilembo Riebeeckstad Welkom South Africa December 15, 2014
Keep Singing Sing onBabyMake meWant to love again The wayYou singYour voiceIgnitesFeelingsIn my beingTaking me backIn timeToAn eveningIn that phaseIn timeWhenA boy childTransitions toMan child…
AS IS COLOUR OF MY SKIN I AM I’m ‘y skin colourI waste no lightYou see no colourYou’re out of sight Light shines through youYourCondescendenceIgnoranceInsensitivitySuperficialityUbiquitous…
PANDEMIC FATALITIES This year 2021 I’ll hit My second life 500 000 kroners Fortune mark Beyond which I’ll stop counting As the zeros grow’n’grow I’ll start…
I am a citizen of the world is another one of those idealistic statements of which poetry and literature are inspired. I am a citizen of the world as an emotional statement reeks of arrogance, ignorance, naiveté, self-centredness, patronization, and imperialistic tendencies. You don’t go calling yourself citizen of the world simply because you don’t feel at home in your country of birth, and/ or your host country if you are an exile in the Diaspora. It’s not up to you to declare yourself a world citizen, as if the world owes you any favours, to begin with …(Continued in the book: “MACHONA AWAKENING – home in grey matter”. Order book on Amazon’s CreateSpace here).
