Gabriel Gidi, Author at Ipikai Poetry Journal https://ipikai.org/author/gabrielgidi/ The Story of Zimbabwe in Poetry Wed, 28 May 2025 09:47:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/ipikai.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cropped-ipikai-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Gabriel Gidi, Author at Ipikai Poetry Journal https://ipikai.org/author/gabrielgidi/ 32 32 200483121 GRIEF https://ipikai.org/issue-7/grief/ Wed, 28 May 2025 09:47:44 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=2143 When you lose a loved one,Grief is like a black cloud that perchesin your heart and mind.Like metastatic cancer it spreads toparts inside of you.It eats you from inside.It makes you live in the pastas you seek to write another chapterwith a mother, a father, a daughter, a sister.Photographs, favourite foods,places you used to frequenttrigger… Read More »GRIEF

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]]> 2143 Diaspora mourning https://ipikai.org/issue-7/diaspora-mourning/ Wed, 28 May 2025 09:47:44 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=2145 News of a death received from homein the middle of a shift,Your manager says, “you can’t go before the end of your shift,after all, you are far away from home,” he rationalises.They don’t realise because you are far away from home,you grieve double.Grieve that you can’t be there.Grieve the loss of a loved one. At… Read More »Diaspora mourning

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]]> 2145 Grieving the death of a child https://ipikai.org/issue-7/grieving-the-death-of-a-child/ Wed, 28 May 2025 09:47:43 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=2147 The death of a child is not easy.Whether your child is an adult, a teenageror a toddler.Grief has the same smell and taste,Acrid and bitter.Grief sits in your stomach like constipation,Waiting to stretch you a bit wider before releasing you.

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]]> 2147 Lament for a friend and a brother https://ipikai.org/issue-7/lament-for-a-friend-and-a-brother/ Wed, 28 May 2025 09:47:43 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=2149 In Memoriam A.M., 1974 – 2021 Pain. Anger. Confusion.Anger at GodAngry streams of tearsFlow down my cheeks.Why now? Why him? They said he was well enough to travel,to take up his new postingAs an itinerant Methodist minister.A preacher.An Evangelist. Then he tested positiveFor the Big CThe wretched RonaRavaged his lungsSucking out the oxygenAnd that booming… Read More »Lament for a friend and a brother

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]]> 2149 The Other https://ipikai.org/issue-6/the-other/ Wed, 17 Jul 2024 21:01:41 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=1897 She is the significant other.An object to beGazed at,Admired,Loved.To love and to hold.Or is she the insignificant other?An object to beGazed at when one is horny,Admired when still young and fresh,Loved for her looks, shape, and body size.When beauty fades, shape changes,and she is endowed with a menopausal body,as folds appear in all the wrong… Read More »The Other

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]]> 1897 Mothering https://ipikai.org/issue-6/mothering/ Wed, 17 Jul 2024 21:01:38 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=1929 An African mother’s life can be hardBecause it is a lifetime commitmentTo mother.Like mothers everywhere on God’s earth.You have to have reserves of energy.You can’t retireEven though you can sometimes enjoy retirement benefits.You mother even if you never gave birthBecause you are;An aunt,A great aunt,A sister to a mother.A neighbour.A village that helps mother the… Read More »Mothering

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