Madagascar poetry
Song of a Common Lover by Flavien Ranaivo,
Don’t love me, my dear, like your shadow for shadows fade at evening and I want to keep you right up to cockcrow; nor l…
Madagascar poetry
Madagascar poetry
Song of a Young Girl by Flavien Ranaivo,
Oaf the young man who lives down there beside the threshing floor for rice; like two banana-roots on either side the …
Madagascar poetry
Cactus by Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo
That multitude of moulded hands holding out flowers to the azure sky that multitude of fingerless hands unshaken by the…
Madagascar poetry
She by Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo
whose eyes are prisms of sleep and whose lids are heavy with dreams, she whose feet are planted in the sea and whose …
Madagascar poetry
The black glassmaker by Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo,
whose countless eyeballs none has ever seen, whose shoulders none has overlooked, that slave all clothed in pearls of g…