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Best Chieftains Poems


The Chieftains Wrath
Once i lived with an uncle in a sleepy coastal town
who had a very beautiful house help from upcountry
now my male cousin Kiki desired to have a relationship
with our beautiful house help who was very lovely

One day Kiki arrives home alone he tries his advances...

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Categories: chieftains, africa, bullying, cousin, family,
Form: Narrative
Chieftains of the Land
The dim past houses warriors of yesterday
whose  lachrymose trail of tears 
continue to whet the sympathy of one diehard
dilettante commissar born and bred
upon the soil those indigenous Tribes 
(with that ill-fitting misnomer of noble savages)
left their legendary mythic and epic legions of prowess
yet fell...

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Categories: chieftains, angst, death, loss, native
Form: Elegy

Book: Reflection on the Important Things