Drum-Beats of Coming Clan-Kings
& the echoes
come
ah! coming
like a trudge of nature’s drums
of light horns & urgent trumpeters
setting my home
aflame with songs!
songs!
to remind the lords
of their ancient drum-beats -
songs!
to remind the maidens
of the moon-light dance!
of new drum-beats
songs!
of ever-coming millennia clan-kings -
& she
seeing
saw it all
the temple up the crest
of a thousand mounts –
& she
hearing
heard a full trump
a full blast of mixt songs
with drum-beats from village huts
near her niger’s banks
near her neophyte’s nest -
in came
her song-throated maidens
like my mbari dancers
near nri clan
in came
her retinue
her century-old pages
drumming
dancing
with the hosts
of the ever-coming millennia clan-kings
Copyright © Canny Amah | Year Posted 2012
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