Random Heart Poetry - Visions and Voices

By Mala Naidoo

Visions and Voices are reflections on life's angst and joy spanning the past and present.

Poems in the collection include truth and justice, inspiration, loss and longing, memories, a creative life, inspiration and nature as the visions and voices of the writer's life in South Africa and Australia.

 

 

Mala Naidoo is an Australian author. She has worked as an educator in Australia, and in South Africa during the grip of
apartheid atrocities, and the early days of its dismantling. Mala Naidoo upholds justice for all in her novels and poems on
culture, race, gender, and identity. Her writing mission is: in our angst and joy we are ONE under the sky of humanity

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mala Naidoo
• Release date: Nov 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9780648809012

Mala Naidoo

Mala Naidoo is an Australian author. She was born in South Africa during the apartheid era which is the impetus for her fictional stories. Mala believes literature speaks through the values and culture of its characters, instilling understanding when readers connect to a moment in time, an event or conversation that brings clarity to daily existence. Mala Naidoo is the author of Across Time and Space, Vindication Across Time, Souls Of Her Daughters, Chosen Lives, and The Rain - A Collection of Short Stories.

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1. Haiku

Truth, both angst and joy

are exposed by ticking time

when justice prevails

Nature’s Classroom

a dividing line decreed

by human law and unlimited need

to split chop and deny

a fair go to all who

breathe nature’s free air

to divide and rule

the fairer portion to steal

from a babe sucking nothing

from an empty teat

unsatisfied — growth denied

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but in nature’s domain

fauna and flora coexist

decorating the landscape

blending in bright coloured unison

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human hand and mind

have much to learn

in nature’s classroom

where abundance not greed

is aplenty for all to