Lebogang Mashile

LOVE IS ELASTIC

Poems

• 1 TOMORROW’S DAUGHTERS | Translations: de
• 2 INSIDE OUTSIDER | Translations: de
• 3 LOVE IS ELASTIC | Translations: de
• 4 SISTERS | Translations: de
• 5 I KNEW A GIRL ONCE | Translations: de
• 6 EVERY CHILD, MY CHILD | Translations: de
• 7 TELL YOUR STORY | Translations: de
• 8 YOU AND I | Translations: de

Language: english

Translations: german (LIEBE IST ELASTISCH)

LOVE IS ELASTIC

When I am closed
Used up
You are stretched at your fullest width
Ready to give
I want to jump
Into you
And feel this life
As you do
Perhaps then
I could give as you do
Perhaps then
I could live as you do

Translations:

Language: german

LIEBE IST ELASTISCH

Wenn ich verschlossen bin
Verbraucht
Spannst du dich zu deiner vollsten Weite
Bereit zu geben
Springen will ich
In dich hinein
Und dieses Leben spüren
So wie du
Vielleicht dann
Könnte ich geben wie du
Vielleicht dann
Könnte ich leben wie du

Lebogang Mashile

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* 07.02.1979, United States
lives in: , South Africa

Lebogang Mashile (1979) is a young performer, writer and facilitator who was born to exiled South African parents in the United States. She has been living, studying, learning and growing up in South Africa since her family came back home in 1994. Mashile studied law and international relations at Wits University.

Lebogang Mashile is one of the most important poetry performers in South Africa. Her publications and performances have had a decisive impact on the world of young female poetry.

photo © gezett.de

Mashile uses a very powerful poetic language characterized by extraordinary musicality. The performance of her poems accompanied by a band recorded on the CD Lebo Mashile Live! shows to what extent her poems are closely linked to the performing act.

In 2003, together with other South-African poetesses she founded the Feela Sistah! Spoken Word Collective. In 2004, she was nominated for DaimlerChrysler South Africa Poetry Award and in 2006 she was awarded with the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.

In the film Hotel Ruanda by Terry George she made her debut as an actor. Moreover, she is the producer and presenter of a documentary serial, which presents the everyday life of South African women.

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