Best Ngoma Poems

After Daktari kugoma
Aty juu amesoma
Mpiga kura huyoo amecoma
Mp wangu alisafiri bungoma
Alialikwa kukula nyama
Huku nikiteremsha mahindi choma
Alicampaign tukiwa kwa Chama
But juu ya njaa wacha niweke comma...

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I’m a failed poet 
A bowled out game of cricket
A boiled nugget in a poetrysoup to market 
I rule my lines straight like a wicket
I am an insane bullet
On a collision course with a stuffed Muppet
Take me seriously like a moving target
You’ll find me famously...

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My name describes and summarizes me 
my essence, vitality, and pressence  
it is the model I search for 
with stretching arms 
and pray in my heart to become 
it is a constant reminder of my potentiality 
forever linked to my Congo ancestry 
spoken indefinately...

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Bantu ngoma sounds in dark nights,  
                       "Tunti! tunti! tunti! tunti! tunti! 
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