This poem was written in memory of the first five women killed in the struggle for Angolan independence. They were the first women to join a guerrilla detachment of the MPLA (People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola). All five were captured in 1967 and later murdered.
March 8th
the flowers of the world are for you
for the feminine eyes of the rainbow of the earth.
The flowers of my garden.
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from the bushes in flames.
March 8th
with water reaching my chest in the walk to the flowers which must remember
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and the hopes of Africa.
March 8th
I don't abandon the arms dreaming
in the silent ambush, that the flowers of the entire world are for you
for the feminine eyes
the rainbow over the
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