By Sabina Elago
WINDHOEK-“Water is wet and if you put your hand in water they will be wet,” you might understand that but yet feel like there is more to it. They say it is much better a poem when expressed. I attended the poetry night last week Wednesday at the Warehouse theatre and it turned out to be another show not to have missed.
I’m sure everyone who attended the poetry night was on the same page as the poetry was stirring with a lot of local talents and artists who have so much potential. The poets shared human diversity with no fear of letting loose as they presented their poems to an audience hungry for jests. They talked about their muse, which most of them were, people in their life, how they love them and how they fail them. “She is the author” by Glen talk of the girl he loved and how she was the author of the story of their life and how he just had to let her go. Solange described how hard it was growing up without his father and how he make peace with it through music. “Music, the dad I never had,” he explain how music was there on for him when his father was nowhere to be found, and how he just have to make peace with the situation because he believed music will forever be his father.
One could not but learn that there are good guys out there who never made it because being good just brings them pain. “Only pain” by Harry Msimuko describes how good people always get hurt. It talks of the man who loved a woman who never looked at him, and how he was always royal to other but what he got in return was always pain.
My best was of all was “hunger of a child” by Sven Weyand. This was dedicated to unfortunate kids. Asking with worry of who they are that malnutrition occupy them and how did they got in that situation. “Am I the son of a man who forgot who they are, am I the daughter of a mother who try so hard but just don’t get there, where do I stay then, if my home have no roof, where will I eat then if there is no water or food”? This was the best description of the homeless children with lots of questions that do not have answers. Wishing it could get a bit longer but it take a real poet to write that poem you will understand and relate to and so you might know the list is always short.
I think they should host this event more often because, who ever thought music can be fathers to some, or that being nice can only bring pain, some of these things you will only understand if you attend the poetry show and I’m sure other poetry lovers would agree with me…
The poetry night featured Namibia’s own local talents such asPat Sam, Nunu Namises, Glen, Leilani Michélle Riddles, Om’sy KoBe Sand, Solange, Sven Weyand, Harry Msimuko, Mark Mushiva, Unotjari, Nathan Wilkinson, Ranadjua, Don Stevenson, Elizabeth Mbaeva telling their Muse. Poetry night is every first Wednesday of the month at the Warehouse Theatre featuring local poets.