Soundprints of the rolling drums
(for Wally Serote, Teller of the Tough Tale)
Let the drums roll
Let songbirds unfurl their wings
Let a rallying chorus spring forth
From the music of waiting proverbs
One sigh, one sky
One night, a thousand stars
One purple laughter above the hueless whisper
Warm handshakes across the oceans……
The winking night
Plods towards a cloudless dawn
No matter how wide the wanderer’s ways
History is never far from the home address
Bridge over the gulf
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One mouth, many tongues
A million, million rooms
In the house that friendship built
From the South to the East
From the Blue Mountains to the Yellow River
Let the rolling drums possess the wind
Let willing legs obey their accents
and References to A Tough Tale, The Night Keeps Winking, and History Is the Home Address, three of Serote’s collections of poems.