Garth Dutton » angola http://www.garthdutton.com Writer, Poet, Musician, Environmentalist Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:45:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Baia Dos Tigres, Angola – A Poem http://www.garthdutton.com/2010/05/baia-dos-tigres-angola-a-poem/ http://www.garthdutton.com/2010/05/baia-dos-tigres-angola-a-poem/#comments Sat, 22 May 2010 02:54:12 +0000 Garth Dutton http://www.garthdutton.com/2010/05/baia-dos-tigres-angola-a-poem/ Baia Dos Tigres, Angola
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I can envisage a bay
with shifting tides and currents,
and tiger stripes of sandbars.
The name suggests to sailors
that they sail into the bay
as one would walk into a jungle
in which it was known
there were tigers.
The name also shows
that the Portuguese Navigators
knew what tigers were
long before they reached India.

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