Millard Lowe Poet Tanka

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TO RIVERS OF BABYLON AND ZION SHORES   

                   (Apropos Of A Nona Tanka)

 

Be aware of this,

We’ve all survived worse:

All ethnicities;

Present day oppressive times

Will also be overcome:-

 

We’re not a kingdom,

All here are here equally,

And destined to be:- 

These oppressive times today,

We must send them on their way:-

 

These Babylon days,

Shall likewise be cascaded

Into liberty:

We are of Zion sailings;

Liberation shores waiting:-

 

Come, Babylon child,

Let’s rise up and set our sails;

A new day coming:

We conquering these waters

Of Babylon with justice

 

Rise up, my people,

We have sailing chores to do;

There’s no resting now:-

God’s chartered the way for us;

It’s time to get back on course:-

 

God’s navigating,

Let us just get to sailing;

The shores are waiting:

Let waves of change froth us on,

With God's wisdom and guidance:-

 

Remember Zion,

God’s the wind in our sails, too;

Let us sail onwards:

Sailing the ancestral way,

To justice and equity:-

 

Time to hoist our sails

Into coming winds of change

Sailing likewise waves:

Oppressive Babylon ways,

Daily splashed with Zion froth:-

TO RIVERS OF BABYLON AND ZION SHORES

TO RIVERS OF BABYLON AND ZION SHORES    next                   (Apropos Of A Nona Tanka)

Be aware of this,
We’ve all survived worse:
All ethnicities;
Present day oppressive times
Will also be overcome:-

We’re not a kingdom,
All here are here equally,
And destined to be:- 
These oppressive times today,
We must send them on their way:-

These Babylon days,
Shall likewise be cascaded
Into liberty:
We are of Zion sailings;
Liberation shores waiting:-

Come, Babylon child,
Let’s rise up and set our sails;
A new day coming:
We conquering these waters
Of Babylon with justice

Rise up my people,
We have sailing chores to do;
There’s no resting now:-
God’s chartered the way for us;
It’s time to get back on course:-

God’s navigating,
Let us just get to sailing;
The shores are waiting:
Let waves of change froth us on,
With God's wisdom and guidance:-

Remember Zion,
God’s the wind in our sails, too;
Let us sail onwards:
Sailing the ancestral way,
To justice and equity:-

Time to hoist our sails
Into coming winds of change
Sailing likewise waves:
Oppressive Babylon ways,
Daily splashed with Zion froth:-

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