It’s the Little Things
Our modern means of communication are little things that can say so much! Ndaba Sibanda captures this in the delightful poem below!
Of Emoji Images And Insinuations
Maybe photos speak louder than words
Think of smiley symbols, emoji symbols
Different icons for different network users
On one’s media platform, on one’s page
Think of animated emoji reactions to a post
For instance there was a story of one celeb
Who left his better half for a fresher beauty
I saw pouting, laughing, weepy or dazed faces
And a few comments like: “This won`t end well”
And “The beauty is a classic, the man a clown”
Then one “reactor” had a photo of a teasing kid,
She had a body that was being fanned and toweled
One post had a beating heart icon …was that love?
The other chap had another idea: a thumps down!!
Poet:
A 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee, Ndaba’s poems have been widely anthologised. Sibanda is the author of The Gushungo Way, Sleeping Rivers, Love O’clock, The Dead Must Be Sobbing, Football of Fools, Cutting-edge Cache: Unsympathetic Untruth, Of the Saliva and the Tongue, When Inspiration Sings In Silence and Poetry Pharmacy. His work is featured in The Anthology House, in The New Shoots Anthology, and in The Van Gogh Anthology, and A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Poetic Intersections. Some of Ndaba’s works are found or forthcoming in Page & Spine, Peeking Cat, Piker Press, SCARLET LEAF REVIEW, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the Pangolin Review, Kalahari Review, Botsotso, The Ofi Press Magazine, Hawaii Pacific Review, Deltona Howl, The song is, Indian Review, Eunoia Review, JONAH magazine, Saraba Magazine, Poetry Potion, Saraba Magazine, The Borfski Press, Snippets, East Coast Literary Review, Random Poem Tree, festival-of-language and Whispering Prairie Press.
Sibanda’s forthcoming book Notes, Themes, Things And Other Things: Confronting Controversies,Contradictions And Indoctrinations was considered for The 2019 Restless Book Prize for New Immigrant Writing in Nonfiction. Ndaba’s other forthcoming book Cabinet Meetings: Of Big And Small Preys was considered for The Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2018.
Sibanda’s other forthcoming books include Timbomb, Dear Dawn And Daylight, Sometimes Seasons Come With Unseasonal Harvests, A Different Ballgame and The Way Forward.
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