A season of brotherliness,
Times of friendliness,
Cities and homes wear different shades,
Boundless joy pervades
the weary and encumbered hearts,
Celebration is spiced with savoury tarts.
December 6, 2022.
Bitesize Poem No. 56 Poetry Contest,
Line Gauthier.
Categories:
brotherliness, celebration, christmas, hope, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Amid the hisses and rattles
Of shameless emissaries of rift,
The nagging voice of virtue proclaims:
“Quench this conflagration!
Why set the house ablaze
To smite a thieving rat?
For when dogs pull down their shelter
Over a piece of dry bone,
They make themselves victim
Of the midnight downpour”
Let the flame of peace
Light up our hearts darkened by hate.
Let the sounds from drums of peace
Drown the hissing of our hate.
The thick wall of distrust
Which had blurred the light of brotherliness
Will be razed by our mutual smiles.
Then our sons shall learn
To eat from the same pot.
Categories:
brotherliness, freedom, peace, political, power,
Form: Free verse
A new world,
A new home for all,
Everyone on equal footing,
Even distribution of resources,
None needs necessities,
I’m not held by the pangs of hunger,
My brother doesn’t dwell in shanties,
The world is not ravaged
by sicknesses and diseases,
Crime and hostility
do not lurk around the corner,
We don’t indulge in recriminations,
No one takes a pound of flesh,
Guns, bombs and missiles
are not wielded by us,
We don’t hurl them at each other,
We raise no walls,
The air is clean and conducive,
Nature is in its pristine state,
Unharmed and not endangered,
I’m not at my brother’s mercy,
I’m not his puppet,
A world for the weak and strong,
A world for the low and mighty,
A world for the gifted and paranormal,
Brotherliness entrenched,
United with one voice.
Categories:
brotherliness, change, earth, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Recriminations take the backstage,
Angry words pushed down the drain,
Hate speeches take the exit door,
Let not my words be misconstrued,
Ask for me to throw more light on dark areas,
I might have stepped on your toes,
I ask to be pardoned,
I was only expressing my feelings.
Let’s come together,
Let love flow without pretence,
Let’s speak the truth in love,
Let’s make room for one another besides,
Weave a web of true fellowship around,
Entrench brotherliness
despite the barriers that abound,
It’s a world of complexities and perplexities,
We have to row against the tide,
It’s a place deeper than we can view,
Let’s maintain our balance
as the unexpected unfolds.
Like colours,
We can complement one another,
Let’s weave our fabric
together and make a colourful piece,
Let’s integrate our cultures,
Foster a home for all,
Our ideas pooled together
to surmount any problem,
No weapon of mass destruction,
No test run for its escape flight.
April 8, 2022.
Categories:
brotherliness, joy, peace, together, truth,
Form: Free verse
Fate placed me here in Africa
Application I did not write
Now I love Africa, I serve Africa
I do not wish
to be British, American, Russian
I do not tell others to be African
Let Whites be Whites, Colored be Colored
Let Blacks be Blacks
Do not convert me too your thing
We live on earth- each at a corner
to play games of life there;
strikers, goal-keepers, defenders;
there are spectators to give morale
But do not relegate me to morale boosting
when I can be striker or goal keeper
We live on earth as one human race
to emphasize brotherhood of humanity
Brotherliness compels us to live as family
but be you, and let me be me
fate sealed the contract
We come, live, go
one life, one journey, one direction
no passport, no check point, no exit
each with deeds on the head for accountability
African or not
Categories:
brotherliness, africa, philosophy, satire,
Form: Free verse
Hey, you! Come here!
Where are you going?
I am going home, sir.
Where do you live?
I live with my brother.
Where does your brother live?
He lives with me.
And where do you both live?
We live together.
Okay, you may go.
Categories:
brotherliness, brother,
Form: Free verse
TOGETHER
We were one, brothers in continents
We were alike, humans in this world
Millions ages ago, we trek together
You the lovely Maya,Incas and Menorah's
You the friendly Chin, Malay and ...........
Paying homage to each in the past centuries, we love
Yes. It is true,I remembered
The great treks from Amazonia through Sahel to Himalaya
We rested in the overgrowth's of Borneo
Those nights we hunt together
Those dawns we worship together
The tree Idols, the Sun, the Moon and the crop gods
That is the blood of brotherliness in us
Warriors of Asanja,
The keepers of the sacred covenants.
True brothers, true humans
Never depart and let not us
Our journey is near to end
Let be together and not asunder
To pray our last.
Call to Amadioha, Chukwu and Onyankopong
As smokes of burnt sacrifices rises high
As those olden days
Calling to him, that shadow of our messenger
To go and see the master for us.
Categories:
brotherliness, black african american, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Mr Ayers staggers across
The evening news
Unwrapped
Like a bojangles
from his blues
Pictures of things to fly
Tangled in the hair
Like bats
Lips on golden fruits
His finger moves
And from the basoon rise
A string
Of melodies blending
on surprise.
Do not stereotype the sound
Classic Bethoven
On the melting ground
Winged to light
Shutting the shades
Of psychiatric nightmares
Sterile scholarship
Without seed
For what gnaws a man's soul
That beauty is a pursuit
That will not allow
Unfaithfulness
The eyes cannot see
Another form undress
And be true
To the mating of the soul
With the gift
Bare upon the breast
Of supple loveliness.
Strange how many times
We past the treasure
Insignificant
Waiting for the discovery
Of another's eyes
Because we cannot deny self
To walk alone the tossing sea of shivering storm
We more fragile
Than the toxic nerve
Our esteem too sensitive
To recieve
What this man
Looking down
Yet not out lives to give
Now we rinse surprise
And love
The prairie hen
Rising to eagle our eyes
Unmuting the strings
Of human
Brotherliness.
Categories:
brotherliness, caregiving
Form: Free verse