#ThursPoetry: Samantha Vazhure – When my teenage daughter asks me whether mermaids smoke seaweed

#ThursPoetry is again this week, in partnership with our associates at Gourd of Consciousness, for model new Zimbabwean authentic poems.

Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure is a British-born Zimbabwean bilingual writer who resides in Wales. She spent her childhood in Masvingo, Zimbabwe the place she accomplished her schooling at Victoria Main College and Victoria Excessive College respectively. She returned to the UK in 1999 after finishing her A Ranges. She studied Legislation and Enterprise Administration on the College of Kent in Canterbury and proceeded to review a Postgraduate Diploma in European Politics, Enterprise and Legislation on the College of Surrey. Samantha is an award-winning poet whose poetry assortment titled Starfish Blossoms gained within the excellent poetry ebook class at Nationwide Arts Advantage Award 2023 (NAMA). She works as a regulatory guide in monetary companies. She based Carnelian Coronary heart Publishing Ltd in April 2020.

POEM
Title: When my teenage daughter asks me whether or not mermaids smoke seaweed
Location: Wales

I expertise an epiphany. An abused mom is simply too sore and too drained

to nurture her youngsters the way in which Mom Nature meant her to. Her coronary heart

was ripped out by a silverback gorilla who chewed her entrails and spat them

out into its enormous palms when she didn’t style proper, and it remembered that

bamboo was its favorite meals. It tossed her tattered innards and battered

her up earlier than feasting on the fibrous canes. Then it instructed her:

Gorillas solely assault people once they really feel threatened.