The Bubbles bubbling me-Betty Makoni celebrating new book by Tantra Zawadi
“Tantra-zawadi’s new collection is a must to read. It bubbles through every corner of the world. The symbolic bubble lofted in the air will leave many with multiple meanings of the beauty of life — a dose of inspiration — bringing the world closer to peace and hope. I am permanently inspired by Tantra-zawadi. She is not only a poet — she is my hero. Let history not leave out those who remained on the ground inspiring communities and breaking taboos whilst at the same time uniting the global village. I fully endorse this book and I ask every human being in the world to bubble their lives with this amazing great piece of art.
— Betty Makoni, Founder of the Girl Child Network and a 2009 Top Ten CNN Hero
“A work of love — what Tantra-zawadi makes — what she achieves through her art, envisioning, she says, the ‘unseen reality.’ A sublime soulfulness suffuses it, pungent like incense, subtle sinuous trans-formation shape-shifts as a genie might, rustled by a reedless wind.
Bubbles: One Conscious Breath by Tantra-zawadi available now onClick here
My youthfulness
My girlhood
My innocence
My imagination
All soaking soap in water
Forming just bubbles
Forming something to blow gently up
All bubbling with bubbles
My head high up
Blowing gently
Blowing up and up
Just gently lifting another woman up
Just gently lifting another girl up
As well lifting self-up
Softly blowing their heroism up
Softly cheering their up and even up
Till one, two, three and a hundred bubbles blown
Small ones blew out faster
Now with art to be gentle and make them bigger
Breathing my life air, giving the breath I take
All bubbling bubbles
Bubbling my inner bubbles
The dance with bubbles up and up
The song to all my bubbles up and up
The ceremony to count all up
My imagination as a girl
Would that one day not an atomic bomb
Not a day a mass weapon that blows
Just a peaceful bubble
Nothing tearing life
Just bubbles Tantra poetically twined
Bubbling round the world
Putting rockets and bombs to shame
Peace and bubbling like bubbles
All bubbling with bubbles