Enchanted and Eloped, poetry written by Ndaba Sibanda at Spillwords.com
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Enchanted and Eloped

Enchanted and Eloped

written by: Ndaba Sibanda

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she was short and slender
her voice vivid and tender

it beamed an invisible smile
infectious even from a mile

she was a blessing to her patients
as she treated them like her parents

she told them high blood was manageable
with diet and lifestyle changes—all was doable

one day one foreign suitor charmed away the adorable
the one doctor whose services poor elders found invaluable

Ndaba Sibanda

Ndaba Sibanda

Ndaba`s poems have been widely anthologised. Sibanda is the author of The Gushungo Way, Sleeping Rivers, Love O’clock, The Dead Must Be Sobbing, Football of Fools, Cutting-edge Cache: Unsympathetic Untruth, Of the Saliva and the Tongue, When Inspiration Sings In Silence and Poetry Pharmacy. He was nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize in Poetry.
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