A season for all women

Abigail George

Instruction makes us beautifully useful
Common sense, elegance, manners, excellence,
lack of flamboyant demonstration, mayhem
and the end of undesirable chaos sensible.
 
It implicates that here in more sophisticated circles;
a secret society has been at work with secret devices
In which signatures, lies and radiant embellishments
took to ruffled light collectively like mist on glass.
 
There is something invincible about womanhood
that is instilled in the wild imagination of make-believe
Miracles like flying and birth are cast out like spells
by the west, the east carries mysticism like a shroud.
 
The essence of African women folk lies herein, in dreams, in strife
They believe in the transmission of the human soul, in love and matters
of the heart, in instruction like a live hive they are extravagant
They lead as every woman does a secret, double life.

LitNet: 23 August 2006

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