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    Aswito Darling
    Aswito Darling
    Aswito Darling
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    Aswito Darling

    By Brian Kibet

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    An ode to the literary work of East Africa's greatest poet Okot P Bitek. A Tribute to love and all our naked emotions. A tribute to the rising and the setting of the sun. A tribute to the trees that worship and dance in silence to tunes of the wind, melodies that only plants listen to. A tribute to love that cannot be contained, love for mama and papa, love for blood and the love for all things beautiful. This is a letter of the birth of love, it's babtism,  it's marriage, her own children and her sad demise. This is a letter for you Aswito, a letter for you, my sweet darling. Share it with the wind, read it to the waters of the flowing stream, sing it and let the wind dance to it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian Kibet
    Release dateSep 11, 2020
    ISBN9781393239352
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      Aswito Darling - Brian Kibet

      Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. — Carl Sandb

      Synopsis

      I have written you a letter, my sweet darling. A letter of misery and hope, of love and hate and hate turned love. I have written you a letter Aswito, a letter explaining the ways of our people, a letter talking of love in an African manner and why things happen the way they do. I have written you a letter Aswito, talking about the great words of our ancestors. Listen Aswito...

      Dedication

      For my sweet darling. For Caren and all my siblings

      PART ONE

      Where are you?

      Have you heard the Greek Mythology?

      The creation tale of the white man

      They say that humans

      Were created

      With four arms

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