Long Lala Poems

You are a narcissist and a gas lighter although you claim that you’re not, can’t you see inside, the decay of your soul? The turmoil, all of the rot
 I guess that you can’t because...

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Date:  March  2051

Warm nearly spring afternoon 
Some Hakims were assembled 
On the vast front lawn with their
Luggage. Sidney Saderi Dolly Molly
Spoke with mother Daughtry about
The children's care.  Damian spoke
To Pierce and Tiffan...

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In Ongata Rongai's club, a memory song weaves,
A tale of Newton Karish and daring thieves,
Late '90s, New Year's Eve, a lively show,
A sold-out crowd, in high spirits, they'd go.

Karish, unlike modern stars who mime,
With a...

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To the legendary teacher I pay tribute
For imparting live voices to the mute
You paid gratitude
To the multitude
On the mountain top you stood
And all the heads understood
You never said ‘Never’
As admired in Geneva;
Tremendous work for real
Remains...

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Lili Marlene

In times of war, love can subdue cynical adversaries
(Men separated from their vocation, now filled with hatred)
And quell the beast inside their misdirected hearts,
And free their consciences, to allow sorrows’ comfort.

A noisy silence pervades...

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(Bal-e-Jibril-151) Javed Iqbal Ke Naam:
(On receiving  first letter of Javed Iqbal(Late Son of Dr Allama Iqbal) in London)
https://youtu.be/jGv1lCDjHEk
Senior Justice Javed Iqbal (5 October 1924 – 3 October 2015) was a Pakistani philosopher and senior...

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Yo I know 2 poets, one young and one old,
Bold, and bright, bodacious,
But still gracious, perspicacious, never racist,
Moving to the beat of two generations,
Elations, facing nations, speaking truth to power,
This is their hour, 
Yo, I...

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Before I left I turned and told her
I didn't care anymore, this was just a blurr
All she did was take me as I was
But I guess that just wasn't enough

So I walked into the great...

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MINI VACATION

sweetness of four days
off in a row

to pitter, to dream, to combat
the clutter and dust, even the walls

how have i missed that? to dream
on paper with dot to dots, morse

code – oh, help-me-not! ...

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She is in the kitchen making cheerios pie he is in the music room clanking at the keys 
a Maestro prodigy yet to potty train  airing out little notes and driving her insane; 
With...

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Perhaps I have a sweet voice 
Perhaps I can convince and maybe.. warn
Is it that my legs are fast
And my hands filled with swiftness
Perhaps so special I am, physically and spiritually
That I have been sent...

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SICIMILE ISIBANI SAMI
Ibhalwe ngu :N.W. Mchunu

Sicimile isibani sami 
Sicimile isibani sempilo yami
Sicimile ngasala ebumyameni 
Sicimile ngasala osizini 

Ubuyisibani sokuphila kwami
Sona ebesikhanyisa kimi
Bengingesabi lutho 
Ngoba wena ubukhona
kufikile isiphepho somoya 
Sacima isibani sempilo yami
Kube sengathi liyaduma izulu...

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In the night when I can not sleep,

when I dream about dreaming

when even God is sleeping

and the devil is out looking

for lost souls.

I think about silly things,

I think about the baker

who just woke up, his

poor...

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I can’t smell the aroma of your perfume
I can’t taste the sweetness of your lips
Of you essence;
Ever present, present;
I can’t taste a thing; I keep hearing friend’s voice;
This is my choice, my choice;
As I smell...

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My heart sleeps by the Ocean.. Give me beach therapy please..
When all this world's troubles come upon me.. just let me dip my feet in the sea..
I don't ask for much just a little sand...

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It was never love! Maybe in some form oh yeah it was but it was never the real thing!
What thing? You  might ask well, that one feeling we all seek like NZT , that...

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A poem for republic day.....
~~~~~ Jai Hind ~~~~~~~~
From great nation, India, we hail,
Where Indus valley used to prevail.
Emperors came, emperors gone,
We always regained our own throne.
Last was the English invasion on us,
Brutal than Alexander, Ghazni,...

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I never knew I was a love poem 
until he read between my lines 
Intertwined he defined
my meaning by reading
the inner mystery inside
His penmanship casted spells
as he scribed strawberry letters
across my quintessence
his language was dipped...

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Never forsake the lineage in which we
originated from because
the ancestors are watching us
Their eyes are on the sparrow
anticipating us to soar into
our excellence 
Wash ourselves in their royalty
while remembering they were 
kings and queens long...

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Oh, pretty little bird, what a pretty little mess
Stepping to the wild side in your pretty little dress
They had you, they held you, to every little thing
scorned you, and bound you, to every little sin.

Won't...

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Why do I do it to myself. 
why do I expect everyone to be so honest and so open
I feel like my trust has been broken so many times that i'm in denial that all...

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Mushin Ajina
   Bojiojimi
   Eruobodo, ogongo baba eiye
   Ofigbogbo ara shogun bi olosha
   Gidigbalo dawa omowipe ebi npa omo enikankan
   Iluola ti ki nsekan labo afi...

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My lala mal flats is skinking like that
Shimmy, Jimmy, gimme some of that hat
We're fleshing and flexing, cheek to cheek
meshing, on do-own
Shimmy, little Jimmy will ya break a my heart?

My pushaloopa swish swash skirt
gonna twirl...

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JUST BECAUSE IT IS WHY WHY
WHY IS SO HARD TO LIVE IN COMPLEX WORLD
 TELL U MY SECRETS SO FAR OUT I SEE YOU 
IN MY HEART SPIRIT LAUGHING NOW WHAT
 IS IT I HERE...

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The moment



The sound of your voice made my heart stand up and pay attention. 
I'm sorry, that's not true.
The sound of your voice made my heart actually pitter patter and jump and wiggle. It released...

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