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Museum of Human History

A site of nature’s appreciation
in wildlife and physical geographic beauty
blessed with a set of spoken identity
having over a hundred and twenty limbs
of which the Bantu stretches the longest of them all.

It is the creator’s Museum of human history;
its song of natural pride and general patriotism
is unbelievably shared with two of its neighbours
as its existence feeds on a unifying regional government.

Habitat to the globe’s largest and most delicious crab,
preserving the world’s largest and intact volcanic caldera,
a site for its continent’s highest and lowest points
and the continent’s largest and deepest lakes.

A major African contributor to the allied forces of world war two
and prides in the most expensive hardwood in the world.
With such a wealthy history and enviable reputation,
its still stuck in the major challenge weighing on the dark continent.

Copyright © Funom Makama | Year Posted 2015

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Kelly Deschler Date: 7/14/2015 1:07:00 PM Tanzania sounds like an amazing and beautiful country from the way that you described it... A very well written poem, Funom. Great imagery! Login to Reply Funom Makama Date: 10/13/2015 8:01:00 AM Thank you so much Kelly

Duke Beaufort Date: 7/10/2015 7:49:00 PM OK, I love that you left comments above that explain your connections. Your work should be on the travel brochures. It also makes it easier to remember these wonderful things about places. The melancholy feeling I get from this brings tears to my eyes. So for today, you have restored my faith in humanity. I will probably visit your poetry often to make myself feel better! Login to Reply Funom Makama Date: 10/13/2015 8:01:00 AM oh Lord... Thank you so much for your encouraging words Duke Beaufort!!