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Odinkwa Kiyoshi Smalling

Offering yielded, yield back to the sovereign king Devoted to duty, rise in the morning of its flame Intellect's child, imprinted on Yahweh's soaring wing Nurturer. natured with heaven's milk, sweet you came Kindness kindled in hibiscus fire, passion against defeat Wisdom that shall not from the incongruous retreat Ambitious heart, panting at the throne for armory of grace Kingly, in my visions, I yielded you to lead my void Imaginatively, so imaginations tower may rise aloft Young, youthful, fresh to hold the course against doubts slide Organized and organizing the voyage of culture's craft Sacred ship, through bulrush castling a kingdom's name Honest to the core of soul, humble to life's bright esteem Innocent of vice, I wanted a cornerstone of unscaffold dream Son of shrewdness, Smalling brimming to honeyed core Motivated and motivating the journey abandoned at the door Ask now the art to feel, and from your feelings yield Learned lessons where the learned mind may drink again Lead, listen, what winds the sails of your people keel Inspirer of them, feel you not the mettle masking in your grain Native of the civilized past, nest not now in silence down Gallantry calls the gallant, and God his grace the gracious has shown.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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Date: 11/15/2010 2:31:00 PM
David, I hope your son reads this. I wish my father wrote it for me. It has everything that makes a poem poetry. One love
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