Mario d'Offizi

Mario d'Offizi is a Cape Town based writer and poet. He is also assistant editor of Sawubona magazine.

Mario's work has featured in many publications over the years and his writing - prose and poetry - has been critically acclaimed thanks to its unfailing honesty and the warmth of his poetic voice.

Banana Crates & Wire Mesh

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Banana Crates and Wire Mesh spans several decades and sheds Mario d'Offizi's unique and often brutally honest light on a wide range of subjects, from the taboo to the mundane. Mario published his first poetry at an early age, but Banana Crates and Wire Mesh is his first anthology - it's a book that brings a lifetime of observations on the minutiae of South African life to the fore.

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Mario D'Offizi on the Victor Dlamini Literary Podcast
the tabloid
2009.05.21 07:30:05
Mario

keep a lovebird in your heart,

but don’t cage it.

keep it

unlocked,

unbounded,

unconditional.


keep a lovebird in your heart,

but don’t smother it.

nest and nurture the small thing.

let it grow and it’ll bring

everything beyond your reckoning.

(rapturous joy, silent pain;

a binding ring, a broken chain?)


keep a lovebird in your heart,

but don’t hold tight.

let it free to find its wings,

leave it to its wanderings.



keep a lovebird in your heart.

but don’t tame it.

leave it wild

like an inner child…



  poetry
 

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