I am so PROUD of my tentie. She had been working on a farewell poem, to sum up our time together and our experience and feelings and all that good stuff that goes with a trip like this one. As you my blog entry have been made of these marvelous people and Lisa has done a farewell poem. It is an amazing piece of work and it sums up our whole trip so please enjoy it as much as I do each time I read it.
I am PROUD to have you as a friend Lisa.
THE TRICK OF REMEMBERING AFRICA
The trick of remembering Africa
Is the trick of using both feet
A journey is a dusty road rising up to the horizon
It is a new blue sky
Meeting is a handshake
It is two backpacks dropped together
Music is the wind through a truck window
It is a whistled song about the sun
Friendship is a dance under a full moon
It is the hug of a Masai blanket
Laughter is a bird call, a hippo grunt
It is flapping arms and falling cups
Adventure is a jump
It is a white tumble of water
Home is a tent under acacias
It is a circle around a camp fire
Stories are red cave paintings
They are blogs and photos and stamps
Peace is a misty green rainforest
It is the lick of the sea on hot skin
Beauty is the stars against the dark sheet of night
It is the golden plains of the Serengeti
Memories are rocks which hold the heat of the day
They are flashing metorites behind your eyes
Love is a glance, a smile
It is the one who sleeps next to you
Farewells are the edge of a continent
They are cloudy skies
The trick of remembering Africa
Is the trick of using both feet
Both feet
To follow the tracks
It made across our hearts
…and find our way back
Intrepid Africa Encompassed
60 days Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda and then Nairobi to Cape Town
16 July - 13 September 2011.
LISA JONES – NEW ZEALAND
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