Tafadzwa Chimwe, Author at Ipikai Poetry Journal https://ipikai.org/author/tafadzwachimwe/ The Story of Zimbabwe in Poetry Wed, 17 Jul 2024 21:00:58 +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 Tafadzwa Chimwe, Author at Ipikai Poetry Journal https://ipikai.org/author/tafadzwachimwe/ 32 32 200483121 The Gourds We Carry https://ipikai.org/issue-6/the-gourds-we-carry/ Wed, 17 Jul 2024 21:00:45 +0000 https://ipikai.org/?p=1907 We go to the river banks and weave joy out of algae. We scratch the slime off with trembling fingers.Surprisingly, it always comes right off.We weave joy. We will it. We seek it and so it becomes. When we go home and share it with our kin,It is never labelled ‘the joy that was weaved… Read More »The Gourds We Carry

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