Saaleha Idrees Bamjee. Vertaling in Afrikaans
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Saaleha Idrees Bamjee. Vertaling van Engels in Afrikaans.
Vlegsels
Dogtertjies word in die steek gelaat
deur ons wat geen
opsies aan hulle bied nie. Dink
aan die verspilling van ʼn vlegsel,
getrek en
geolie en
ge-Love-in-Tokyo.
God het aan ons die kennis
van ʼn skêr gegee.
Om te dink ek sou so vry kon wees
soos Abdul oorkant die straat.
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Plaits
Saaleha Idrees Bamjee
We fail little girls by not
presenting them
with the alternatives. Think
of the waste that is a plait,
pulled and
oiled and
Love-in-Tokyo’d.
God handed down to us
the knowledge of scissors.
To think I could have been as free
as Abdul from across the road.
Bronverwysing:
Bamjee, Saleeha Idrees. “Plaits”, Zikr: Poems. Cape Town: Uhlanga, p. 35.
