Fakier's poems are emotional, engaging

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Poetry is an art form that one uses to give their emotions and opinions a voice. A poet unleashes emotions gathered in time, letting them gush out as he or she tries to make statements about an issue, be it of national or personal concern. Sharief Fakier, a 17-year-old student, is a poet. Unlike most Botswana poets who go as far as taking the microphone and harping their poems in public before audiences, he writes and publishes his works.

It is a good thing, for both posterity and most importantly documenting one's feelings and sharing with the reading public those ethos and thoughts. But then, others will tell you it is expensive to get your poems published into a book. They argue that poetry; especially one compressed into a book, will hardly put food on the table here in Botswana.

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