Best Immortalizing Poems

scouts stand proud
two spears and shield
immortalizing Kenya's legacy


Name: Teddy Kimathi

Country: Kenya...

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Shahjahan built the Taj Mahal, a mausoleum
Situated on the bank of the River Yamuna,
In memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz
With whom he fell in love...

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The Writer

Inspired by darkness he writes only at night;
Studying stanzas—seducing spellchecks
With the stroke of a pen he is anyone or anything
His great works are subjected...

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Simplicity seduces stunning symmetrically salivating stimuli
Complexity confounds controlled curiosities calculating clarify
Ambiguous ambitions amplify arousing academics admirable
Mellifluous melodies making magical memories memorable

Poetic pendulums pondering pensive promiscuous...

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Rushing to take a stand for what is right,
Using the gifts from above to strenghen your stance,
Throwing your fist in the air and yelling with...

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While out and about
an unexpected over bare ring bout
to defecate arose,
     where sphincter asserted clout
and would excrete
    ...

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The nails cut deep into my clenched fist
Blood escapes life to death’s never ending list
My ebony skin has healed from your banishment 
My translucent soul...

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Rumor has it one takes pictures of stuff
that one is afraid of losing.

The girl who captures moments with her camera
seeking the company of entangled dwellings
beneath...

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resounding echoes in
caves of timelessness
my hands caressing walls of rock 
never kissed by daylight
walls that speak loudly
of proud ancestors
immortalizing their
essence and
existence
painting
dwelling
hunting
sleeping
making tools
raising families
communicating 
telling stories
leaving...

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Behold!  that human angel hovering
not in bright skies but on far-distant land
a siren voice, hypnotic, echoing – 
desperate singing, sundry songs without demand –...

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Walking',
that barely-Summer beat;
the wind with butterfly kisses 
flushing my cheeks 

So much potential 
packed into  the thickness,
dreams undressed 
in the eyes of a lamp post 

a billboard of stars
illuminating  nights...

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Devious and mischievous illusions
Run through my tired mind.
Happily ever after will never be.
Longing for forevers is a farce.
A few spared whispers,
A few poems relishing our...

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This is my pencil.
There are many like it,
but this one is mine.
With this pencil I can create.
I can write about hatred and mistrust,
unrequited love and...

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Food displays no preference for by whom it is consumed...gloves do not pre-qualify the hands that would intrude...
Cameras show no favorites when immortalizing ‘Life’...and photos...

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Butterflies don’t die,
instead they become Frankenstein
electric shocked and back to life;

Hot and cold heart,
hopelessly frozen yet fiercely beating;
Stomach just short of regurgitating,
butterflies are alive;
So blue...

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