Dreams of Africa

By Serge Charles Frechette

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 17, 2009
• ISBN: 9781462820351

Serge Charles Frechette

The author/ Serge Charles Frechette, semi-retired; (poet, writer);published in French and English, residing in Kirkland, QC, Canada; writing and teaching technologies part time .

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Copyright © 2009 by Serge Charles Frechette.

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Falling dusk in Tanzania

By Christine Lengvari

March 2005

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Contents

Foreword

She Dreams Of Africa

Serengeti Ritual—

Starlings Of Dusk

Himba

When The Last Lion Calls

Worm Of Malice

Ife Of Ages

Sands Of Time

The Lepoard

The Bantu Of Old

Wangari Maathai

A Country Of Desert

The Great Shadow Run

African Night Shaman

Ochre Girl

Kalahari Meerkats

If It Rained In The Desert

Dream Of Africa

Where Have All Your

Children Gone, Sudan

The Mango Girl

Goodbye Zimbabwe

Of Gabon

Welcome To The Danakil

Tanzania

Gentle Breed Of The Congo

The Mbuti Of The Congo

Darkness In Cape Town

Brown Is The Color Of Your Skin

Saharan Haunting

Made Of Clay

South Africa

Prodigal Land

Lioness Of Kenya

Setting Foot In Africa

The Acacia Tree

A Genome Encryption

Dune

The Elephant’s Eyes

Shaman’s Fantasy

Eating Stones

Wind’s Rhyme

Of Cassiopeia

Winged Hope

White Silk And Diamonds

Children Without Tears

Thoth’s Secret

The Sacred Crypt

Among The Fire Reeds

Ivory War

Pyramids Of Sudan

Senegal

For A Handful Of Diamonds

The Blue Nile

Hyenas Hunt

Camel Friend

The Boy And The Lion

Côte D’ivoire

Sands Of Time

Silverback

Where Zebras Run

Uganda’s Song

Blue Butterfly

The Ocean Talks

When It Rains In The Congo

Edens Upon Edens

Deep In The Ocean

Once Upon A Honey Badger

Mozambique

Lofty Butterfly

Tall As A Giraffe

Chad

Whispers On The Mali Winds

To The End Of The Sky

No Borders

Welcome To Eden

Serpent Of Old

Fisher Woman

Madagascar

The Pod

On The Shores Of Nigeria

Winds Of Morocco

Skies Of Algeria

God Of The Nile

Adrar Plateau

Togo

Calabash

In The Land Of Ouagadoudou

Under The Baobab Tree

The Gambia

The Addax Of Tunisia

Cameroon

The Lady In The Mangrove

The Hidden Face

Desolation

The Old Seer Of Rwanda

On The Winds

The Zulu

Rolihlahla

Noah’s Ark

Bushmeat Of The Congo

Kilimanjaro

Flight Of The Cranes

Impenetrable

Somewhere In Namibia

Once Upon A Sea Horse

Ghost Of Botswana

Jane Goodal

Dr. Linvingston I Presume

Panthera Leo

Pan Troglodytes

Freetown

And The Water Goes Round

Do You Hear

The Long And Sad Shores

A Visit To Africa The Zoo

Hail The King Of Swaziland

This Way Comes’ The Wilderbeast

The Intrepid Mishi Mtile

The Little Hermit Crab

The Great Zaire

On The Wings Of Tragedy

Niger’s Wodaabe

I The King

Fabled Land Of Punt

Burundi

Sao Tome

Karthala

Eye On The Horn Of Africa

Silent Shores

Dark Day Of Namibia

Comes’ A Tide Of People

A Country Of Thorns

Zambia

Of Mauritius

Portal To Misery

Pirates Of Somalia

The Great Lands Of The Congos

A Quiet Sea

Lucy

Dark Man Of Old

Pirogues Of The Gambia

Children Of Mandara

Where The Sweet Grass Grows

African Sunset

Echoes Of Demise

When It Rains In The Congo

African Nights’ Lullaby

Man’s Best Friend

Strange Times

Lost Cities Of Africa

Kingdom Of Dahomey

Dance Of The Masks

Searching For The Nile

Dhows

The First Africans

Hatshepsut Pharaoh Queen

The Sudd

Long Live Amina Of Zaria

Njinga Of Ndongo

A Beast Of Old

For What Remains

Africa’s Name

Of Cain And Able

Tattered Dreams

A People From The Tower Of Babel

Scarecrows In The Maize Fields

A Greedy Man

The Last Emperor

Long Road To Freedom

The Puppet Man

Dark Night In Comoros

Goree

Cottonwood Tree

Khephra The Scarab

Luanda The Beautiful

Lebu Fisherman

Djibouti

At The Edge Of Another World

Nairobi

Guinea

Strangest Tale

The Little People

Principe

Seychelles

The Basotho Horseman Of Lesotho

Queen Of Sheba

Somewhere In Zimbabwe’s Past

The Green Sahara

Train Ride From Maputo

Far And Away From Enugu

Sweet Memories Of Madagascar

Highway To The Future

Madagascar Now

Travelers Of Eden

The Dying Daisy

Khayelitsha

From Cairo To Cape Town

To Zimbabwe With Love

The New Homer

Western Sahara

Nomads

Through The Namib

Ghosts Of Africa

Serengeti Wanderer

Dedications: this book would not have been possible without the encouragement of my wife Nina, my daughter Leanne and my son Jason and my friend Christina Lengvari who has lived in south Africa for many years and was a source of knowledge.

Author/teacher: Serge Charles Frechette/poet/teacher

Born in Montreal, QC, Canada in 1946, now living in the suburb of Kirkland.

Published in anthologies and other poetry works in french and english.

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Books Published

Poems For All seasons

Of Legends and Love

Mon Pays Blanc(poésies française)

Dreams Of Africa

Anthologies

The Best Poems and Poets Of 2004

The Best Poems and Poets Of 2003

Best poems and poets of 2006

The Colors Of Life

Forever Spoken

Who’s Who In Poetry

Our Picturesque Runes

future books

A Hungarian’s Journey (George Lengvari)

Girl From Midnight (fiction thriller)

The Amulet( sequel to Girl From Midnight)

L’Ombre De Mes Pensées(poésies française)

Foreword

About this book

Poetry is the language in which I express myself ;it is a personal language, of feelings and search for answers, a lifetime of learning.

Africa, this vast land with the most ancient history, where humanity began; is this where fate lies in humankind?—Its paradise was once abandoned and what remains is lost in faded times; it is a land archeologist are still discovering, since the last ice age; how many times history has repeated itself. We will have to rekindle the fire of love and search within our souls if we ever wish to find our way back again to the Eden that once was.

Explorers and exploiters alike have come and gone, wishing for something that wasn’t there, blinded by greed and their own sense of worth and pride; civilizations blind. They have all failed, looking for lost cities and wonders, rivers and great monuments;

Perhaps we will never find these fine monuments, buried in eons.

We do know of its slavery for many thousands of years, upon our own brothers; the worst of holocausts. Our first mother, if it was Lucy would have cried in shame, we are shameful if not humble.

Will the last lion call into the night on Africa’s last light sunset?

If we fail to see the meaning of life as it should be, we shall perish also. In this vast land encompassing many time zones, a multitude of diverse peoples a continent of enigma and paradox.

One wise writer about Africa wrote that there are so many different people in Africa and that they are quite tribal, making it an almost impossible challenge for this country to be a viable and sociably democratic entity; but aren’t we all this way, tribal as all countries have their ethnic diversity and we debate this in many wars to prove the point.

This book is an attempt to understand the soul of Africa, it is only a poets vision of this great mystery, to dream of this intangible Eden that so many fables talk about; in all this I can see a glimpse of faces and places and upon them are the runic writings of humanities past. The creatures that live in its flora are haunted by restless ghosts walking among them looking for the paradise that was. Does it belong to them only?

She Dreams Of Africa

(Dedicated to Christine Lengvari )

who has lived in South Africa

for several years; a traveler of the world

and a philanthropist. )

In a city she dwells, far away, stranger than tales;

for there, are seasons of another world

Wind wisped blond hair, still clinging to youth’s fare

and a secret