Solomon Ochwo-Oburu Poet Free verse

Lady's Mountain

You can see the hills from afar
Standing out on a large plateau
On grassland plains are mountains
Which never lie still but tremor
But the mountains are animate
and they are lady’s mountains

You see them only when they shout
Only with second look you discover
The reality of their tremor and thunder
As birds conferencing in the grasslands
Disperse in chaos when scared of echoes
Though high above, they are hidden
Though hidden they are never still
Moving they cause earthquakes
But no clouds cover their tops
Fogs and mists veil their ribs

With hills on the frontiers 
You can see goats nipping at tufts
And the bulls scratching hard
For puppies to climb to lick tears 
And sweat bulls and goats create


The valleys are heather-filled  
Bearing no rivers and no lakes	
But have unfathomable craters
And with rolling dangerous magma 
The volcanic lava flows ceaselessly
  
When old men rush to squat there
To warm themselves rapidly in solo
When the sun goes to its bed to rest
Many are victims of volcanic ash
That pours and burns without care

You can see swallows twitter above
To find lonely space to build nests
In the beautiful hills and escarpments
And vultures squinting their eyes
As they pray for any happy accident
To befall guests on lady’s mountain

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