Long Ngoma Poems

In My Language

This you might not know is a conversation,
It’s a conversation not of persons.
This is a conversation of multiple languages.
If you could observe the functions of my mind,
You would marvel at the thought processes
Criss-crossing...

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Poetry Soup Hero's

Poets with golden ink and pens 
You make us move forward with your inspiration
With kind an honest, encouragement  and compliments 
Small act of caring all which has the potential to turn a...

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English verse>
gimme sum mutual praise
gimme sum mutual praise
gimme sum mutual praise
All them there people's of the world;
Coastal dwellers praising; All day long, all the day long;
Rejoicing, and repenting of their wrongs.
Everybody on the islands;
Everywhere on...

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THE SOUNDS OF THE RIVER DRUMS---part 1

AS THE SOUND OF THE BEAT GOES, TUM, TUM, TUM
As the sound of the drum beats boom, boom, boom
Running river waters streaming;
heading down the valleys screaming
Flowing where it may...

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I’m lost in the tingle of your hair
Overcome in a tangle of beauty
In its glow like a nebula cloud in the night sky

I’m taken back to the music
When you moved like a leaf on a...

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We’ve laid down our swords
And hanged up our shields
But the war still rages on in our hearts

We’ve tamed the warhorse
His saddle rests in the stable
But his stride still charges our frontlines

Our trenches buried
A soldier never...

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Eyes like silver beams
Emanate a full moon
Moonlight my dreams
Be my event horizon 
Invade my dark room 
Filter through secret’s curtain 

Soak the sky
In a rain of tears
Heard a painful cry
Echoed a thousand light years
If I’m...

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Swahili verse

We, bwana
Kaw kweli
Kwa kweli
Hebu ngoma yaani HIM
Kwa kweli
Kwa keeli
Kuja juu sasa
Hebu kuimba, sifa
Kuimba kwa sauti nyimbo na
Sauti kwa mfalme
Mkuu mimi ni
Baba, Mungo wa Baba
Njoo sasa, njoo sasa
Hebu kuabudu kwanza hapa duniani
Silaha na mikono aliinua...

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Locked in place on a high cross
Swords spoke the foreword
A quick glance at eternal peace
Combat defined his wounds

Only the pen of history
Penetrates his heavy armour
Behind his shield lies purgatory
At the height of an evil empire

Cracked...

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Can you feel the footsteps
Of time running out?
The world’s standing…
On the desert remains
Of the sands of time

We stand on the doorstep
Of a new beginning
The future's upset
Life's a shameful past
History's reset

High on nuclear
Minds so unstable 
Race...

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Savoured roots at the tip of a spade
Dying leaves escape their own tree’s shade
We’re in a draught, spare me your tears
Unless you’re a portfolio full of shares

The land is levelled by green boots
Their orders given...

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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...

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over your bed of molten wax
hover remnants of toxic black smoke
I feel your heat beneath my feet
feel my heart admit defeat

and all that I am melts away
as my bones turn an ashy grey
I know you’ll...

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For a man to walk alone...in a city of millions
For a heart to be forlorn...in a world of billions

For a man to wander...purposelessly below his limits
For the soul to wonder...why it even exists

The first raindrop...fell...

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In my present absence
I’m trying to remember where I misplaced the key
To unlock the door to my own existence

I rise with the smelting icecaps
Only to come crashing down with the rising levels of pollution
So I’m...

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Was his theme song to his life story
An old record...from present to history
A soundtrack
To any sidetrack...on his block
To his black...and back from his black

He knew the words
As though he had written them
He loved the melody...it...

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gaping mouth kiss to canvass
on my jugular death’s caress
my spirit’s quenched combust 
a champion in defeat’s bust

eyes swollen shut, “and he’s out!” 
down for the count on my gut
prey food to a superior predator
beneath the...

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My eyes taste your DNA
As you breakthrough to a new day
Then, like a beautiful thought
Your mesmerising presence floats

I’m sure man was made from your rips!
How else is he able to fit through your hips?
Yes, creation...

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Time crystallised into every golden grain 
Fine as the flakes off my skin 
For a thousand years void of rain
Rising to Rah with the slope of the dunes

Crocodile tears fill the Nile
For they flourish for...

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Further down passed my own chilling past
I stumbled upon man in a Neanderthal mask
When I wandered so much like an outcast
I wondered what had been his place in the world so vast

The archaeologist measured his...

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A morning in a gown of mist and dewdrops
Blankets my world with her warmth
I bask in her torrential shower of love
And slip into her tropical depths 

Last night we shared a dream to a distant...

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Eye, make up your mind
Undressing me like a windscreen wiper,
Up and down
Until your sprinklers emit a teary drool
Then dressing me up?
Make up your mind
See to your heart’s content
Glued to my perfect composition 
Watch until your...

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The open road echoes his soundtrack
Going double platinum with each new track
His footsteps felt for miles like a shockwave
He’s the love of music we all desperately crave

Tops the charts could never keep him down
He's a...

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The deep cuts of our scars
Are like the quiet drift of the stars
The longer we hold onto the hurt
The further we both drift apart

I hope we don’t miss the mark
On our return journey back
‘cos babe...

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Gasping in the frozen marrow
Galloping the slopes of the straight and narrow
My essence fragments to brick stone
Whenever your rock tune builds my ringtone

Raptured blisters muster to your guitar 
My dim heartbeat pleads to your imploding...

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