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Eulogy For Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai is not dead 
I roll back my tear
Peer from my window
Deep the grooming forest

Switch off my radio
Tear the headline
I refuse the epitaph
I write no word

Her monument must sprout 
Beyond the canopy
She died to defend

Let Wangari not die
Mother of mother nature
Where she lives!

Copyright © Peter Onyancha | Year Posted 2011

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Elizabeth Wesley Date: 9/28/2011 9:54:00 PM The third berse is so meaningful with your description. I'm sure she would be honored to think this was written for her Login to Reply

Peter Onyancha Date: 9/27/2011 8:44:00 AM Prof. Wangari Maathai is an institution in variety of manners. For us, Kenyans, though she died yesterday the work she she stood for in terms of our relationshipship with nature will indict us if we mourn and forget. As the first African woman to win the nobel prize, it bespeaks what humanly determination can proffer. Hence the tribute. thanks for your readership and feedback. Login to Reply

Peter Onyancha Date: 9/27/2011 8:42:00 AM Prof. Wangari Maathai is an institution in variety of manners. For us, Kenyans, though she died yesterday the work she she stood for in terms of our relationshipship with nature will indict us if we mourn and forget. As the first African woman to win the nobel prize, it bespeaks what humanly determination can proffer. Hence the tribute. thanks for your readership and feedback. Login to Reply Peter Onyancha Date: 9/27/2011 8:43:00 AM Prof. Wangari Maathai is an institution in variety of manners. For us, Kenyans, though she died yesterday the work she she stood for in terms of our relationshipship with nature will indict us if we mourn and forget. As the first African woman to win the nobel prize, it bespeaks what humanly determination can proffer. Hence the tribute. thanks for your readership and feedback.

Gwendolen Song Date: 9/27/2011 6:14:00 AM Good morning, Peter. Did u write this for her funeral? I believe these words are very powerful and give a great personifying effect...monument must sprout...great description.Sorry for this special loss....eulogies are very difficult to write. Gwendolen Login to Reply