Best Capetown Poems
She is the mother place of all humanity.
From her womb was birthed the first man.
The first self aware and inventive beast,
Standing erect, carrying tools of his own invention.
Science tells us that in the beginning....
All men were black of skin, Negroid of features,
With very limited amounts of body hair.
Befitting of the Continent that bore them.
Great civilisations rose and fell on her bosom.
In Egypt, Kush, Ethiopia, Somalia, Ghana,
While cities like Khartoum, Axum and Timbuktu rose,
We pale-skinned peoples were still living in caves.
Remember Stanleyville and Leopoldville and Carthage.
Remember Rhodesia, Zaire and Zimbabwe. Remember.
Tribes, not nations, in Rwanda, Sudan, Chad, at war.
Little peace, if any, protects the innocent and weak.
Still, the peoples are joyful and positive in outlook.
The Fishermen of Eritrea and Capetown, laugh for the fish.
The Masai, since the dawning of time, are cattlemen.
While Ethiopia is home to the oldest continuous Christian church.
Africa is a land no man may conquer but all men desire.
A continent where desert sands or jungles easily swallow,
And digest entire civilisations, leaving only scant traces.
I cannot but love the Continent and its inhabitants.
Growth,
For the growth of African global economy
Many African governments thought to have financial
bank which can be financing
most African mega-projects
as they don't have decisions
or holding shares in MFI bank
It seems as some western banks
failed them with fake promises
when they needed some financials
for many projects.
Growth,
They asked for the reform of MFI bank so that
African representatives may put their money
To hold shares for benefits
of fifty four African countries.
The African mega-projects which many leaders
Focus on now are
- expounding Barrage Inga in Congo river to supply electricity in almost twenty African countries.
- And modern railways from Capetown
" South Africa to Cairo " Egypt.
Growth,
Many African leaders are persisting with
the point of the reform of governments
systems as some western leaders
still thinking of neo-colonisation
whenever African matters
are discussing in many international summits.
All fifty four African countries are independent
but they don't have representatives
in the United nations security
council which is highly unlikely.
Growth,
Many African countries could be growing economically
by now but there is a stumbling block in World
oparating system.
Some Africans leaders pushed the agender
of New financial architecture where governance
and decisions are not in the hands of few people.
New financial transaction taxe at global
level whereby all the Countries will be paying
And the resources must not be controled
by the World Bank and MFI bank as
African leaders don't have final say in those institutions
So they wish an other institution of Equals.
Growth,
African youths put much pressure
on the senior African leaders to leave powers
as they seemed not working well.
Then many African leaders came out of their silence
in the recent international summits
of " Russia and France"
" Salome "
Salome some say her name to be~
Ship thus a'sail seven sea~
Fair of loft & figure soft~
Heart o'mine & hers set free~
Sail we shall my ship my love~
Sail we shall upon wings o'dove~
Sail now off to sea o'rime~
Sail so we o'mind sublime~
'Round our sprit shall be CapeTown~
Off our bow wind calms down~
Dutch nor Brit say naught to us~
For 'tis known we sail o'darkest lust~
To lands now far so set we sail~
All a'fore to so then prevail~
Walk this land amongst lion grand~
To finally with our children stand~
Salome so say her name to be~
Ship thus sail some seven sea~
Fair o'line & figure soft~
Heart o'mine... & hers set free~
Sail we shall my ship my love~
Sail shall we on wings o'dove~
Sail now off to sea o'rime~
Sail then oft.. o'mind sublime~
'Round our sprit shall be CapeTown~
Off our bow wind calms now down~
Man nor beast say naught to us~
'Tis known we sail... o'darkest lust~
To lands now far so set we sail~
All a'fore shall now prevail~
Walk this land among lions grand~
Thus well within... our dreams so stand~
SeaWolf
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Some opportunists
Can tell you
That Africa is
A jungle.
Just because they don't want
Some people to visit
Africa.
Just because they want some
People to look down
Africa.
Just because they want to get
Some money through those contents.
If you visit one of the African towns like
Capetown,
You can be astonished
To see some places
Which are very beautiful
and clean
Than
Some erears
Of the most
Popular world
City called,
" New York. "
I always
Say to world friends,
To visit African cities
And villages,
To learn more about Africa
And Africans.
Some Africans relocate to USA
Just because of the men made
unjust Systems
Which keep paralyzing
The developement of Africans.
Imagine ,
The most rich continent
In natural resources
Which could have strongest
Economy than the other continents.
May 16/2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe
Mussabwa Chris
I arrived earlier in time
To witness the great work of creation
When from the dust emerged the first man
I saw the destruction of the Noah’s world
And the reconstruction thereafter
The earliest civilization on Egypt soil
Unfolded before my very eyes
The reign of the Greek gods and
The might of Roman, I shared
I walked the streets of Paris
On the eve of Robespierre’s revolution
The triumph of Lenin, Trosky and the royal guards
Were mine at the proletariat Russia
With Cromwell, I drank from victory cistern
In Britain, in the battle against the crown
In the boat beside Columbus
We discovered the new world, America
In Berlin, we sat and scrambled
For Africa’s partition
From the rocks ravines of Kenya
I fought in the Mau Mau’s rebellion
Behind Ghandi, I walked
Paving the streets of India for independence
At Capetown, I teamed up with Mandela
For freedom in apartheid South Africa
I saw the the CIA at Congo Kinshasa
Murdering young Patrice Lumumba
At Lagos and Accra, I saw the magic wand
Waving over the peoples in the hands of Zik and Nkrumah
On stage with Bob Marley in old Rhodesia
I danced redemption song on the first of Zimbabwe
Last centuries, yesteryears, yesterdays
Today, tomorrow on pages and lines of books
Open before my very eyes and mind.
there has to come a way
to make change today
here in cape town
bad things are going down
all around the town
here in capetown
violence on the streets
this city"s losing kids
yet everyone I meet
is still pleasant enough to greet
here in cape town
when the system stumbled
when the walls were crumbled
the faithful still stayed humbled
here in cape town
so what would cape town be
pictured without the sea ?
ape town.....could it be?
Ridden Hard, Put Up Wet
Worn down landscape
Ridden hard and put up wet over eons of time.
Buttes interspersed with ravines and wadis,
Vast irregular symmetry.
Clumps of purple blue green sage
To have been seen by the riders of olden times.
Clusters scattered randomly.
A patchwork without design
Covering endlessly to the horizon
Intermingled with beef and horse.
The buttes come in irregular waves of shapes and sizes.
Conical breasts sprung up in ridges,
Or sometimes alone at the sky line.
Isolated flat tops
Or long Capetown table mountains;
African ant hill shapes,
Crenulated with skirts of vertical old rivulet stripes.
The overstory of bare hard scrabble thin land
Draped to the side of the ravines
Exposing the layers of understory limestone below.
Sentinel wood line posts, strong with wire, guard the narrow highway
That rolls with the landscape.
Occasional cotton wood ribbons
Crosses the roadway over the sign ‘Dry Run Creek’ which still remains dry until the rain comes.
All this
Served under the banner of blue sky
Shredded with a mare’s tail wisp of clouds
7/13/2020
FOR IX : EMIGRATING FRIEND
Fly lightly IX within Merlin’s wings
may your Mohican pony-tail
grow thick and strong
may Africa kiss America
with gentle sensation long
may salty breath of Cape Town
mingle with New York ~
may clear sub-atomic particles
continue to dance in humble service
with harmonious Awareness
may two crows and all Duality
dissolve into Unity
via your Trinity
We release you into
Big Apple arms beguiling
knowing you will not be
swallowed at an unknown core
as dual citizenry is but a feeble
stop to Total Dissolution’s door
the Truth is IX
your disposition is
Pure and your belonging
is everywhere
sure