Echoes Of My African Mind - GRIOT

<p><em>Echoes of My African Mind - GRIOT</em> is a poetic journey across landscapes both internal and ancestral. Told in four sweeping movements-<em>Personal Odyssey</em> <em>Love Lost & Found</em> <em>Griot</em> and <em>Vignettes of War</em>-this collection bears witness to a mind shaped by longing and rebirth memory and silence resistance and tenderness.</p><p>These poems inhabit the space between cosmic wonder and earthly ache threading the personal with the political the spiritual with the tactile. In verses that echo like remembered names Alf crafts a lyrical record of lives carried and lives forgotten of home as a question and identity as an unfolding. The speaker walks a while in his own shoes but invites us too to feel the path beneath our feet-whether on a Sunday morning in Harare or lost in a storm of arrested departures.</p><p>At its heart <em>Echoes of My African Mind</em> is a griot's offering: a chorus of remembrance truth-telling and sacred imagining. The poet reflects on the legacy of stolen names fractured families and silenced histories-but never without hope never without the fierce beauty of survival. In poems like <em>In the Ship's Hold</em> <em>I Lost My Name</em> and <em>The Circle Is Complete</em> the reader is not simply observing history but carrying it forward.</p><p>Through the chapter <em>Love Lost & Found</em> we're brought face to face with tenderness and absence passion and aftermath. Whether in quiet meditations like <em>I Remember You</em> or charged introspections like <em>Perfect Release</em> the poet navigates the fragile landscapes of desire and memory-where intimacy is both balm and ache.</p><p>The final movement <em>Vignettes of War</em> wrestles with the lingering ghosts of colonialism displacement and political grief. Here Alf's voice turns fierce and solemn documenting not just war-torn lands but war-torn psyches and the dream-still alive-of an African future shaped by truth not trauma.</p><p>This collection is not just a gathering of poems; it is a living archive of emotional histories and cultural reclamation. With language that is precise yet expansive aching yet uplifting Alf composes a song for those in search of home of voice of belonging.</p><p>Whether you are drawn to questions of identity entranced by lyrical storytelling or seeking a deeper reflection on love exile and return <em>Echoes of My African Mind - GRIOT</em> will leave its mark on your soul. This is poetry not just to be read-but to be remembered.</p>