WALK EASTER AWAKE

Grow my palm leaf
Grow into faith
Of birth, death,
Crucifixion, resurrection and ascension.

Grow my old hope
Grow into sympathy, empathy,
Triumph and mercy

Ferment like yeast
Firm like a seed, mustard;
Grow my palm leaf
Into apple real
Of ap ril
As we easter this holiday

Biography:

Chenjerai Mhondera has authored several books including HURRICANE TORTURES OF NOW, HURRICANE TO THE WORLD, A CASE OF LOVE AND HATE, MASASI ACHINOZ (CHINOTIMBA JOKES), MANIFESTO# ANTHOLOGY OF PEACE, ENCYOPEDIA OF CONSCIENCE and many others in the literary domain. His works appear in over twenty publications – published on online journals, blogs, magazines, anthologies and so forth; including PAROUSIA Magazine, Writers Space Africa (WSA), Ace World, PaZimbabwe blog, ALL Poetry, PoemHunter.Com, Enthuse#Magazine, MUPAKWA WERWENDO, BEST NEW AFRICAN POETS (BNAP) 2015, BNAP 2016, BNAP 2017, and BNAP 2018 respectively. ZIMBOLICIOUS POETRY 2016, 2017, 2018 respectively. He is amongst the 8 Poets from Zimbabwe that made into a Great Trekk of the Great African Caravan (GAC) –(Cape to Cairo route pioneered in 2018). He has prefaced, edited and co-edited several books in the literary industry. He is a performing artist and actor as well. In 2011, he was the Editor in Chief of Plan Internationals Magazine in Chipinge District. Has featured and or appeared before several literary platforms at Universities, schools, colleges and academies – book reading and presenting. Chenjerai Mhondera is a citizen of the World, comes from the East and lives in Zimbabwe. He is a patron and founder of the International Writers Association (IWA) formerly Young Writers Club in Warren Park- Mabelreign District, that helps to identify, nurture and publish young, up and coming writers. He was reviewed in almost all local newspapers – has got attention National Radio stations as well as National Television. By identity in writing, he is just but a unusual character – interviewers and reviewers stand to discover and rediscover. Currently he has had two interviews against his name.