Long Parlous Poems

Tom Mboya, son of Ndiege
From the craggy islands of Rusinga
--the craddle of his progenitors
He sprouts like avens in the loamy knoll
And out to the urbs he sets off his journey
A parlous journey to his martyrdom

Look...

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Never attempting of striking it rich,
whenever my cravings give me another itch,
I'm used to a quite and simple life:
enjoying good food and sharing a coldl glass of wine 
when relatives and friends drop by;
why be...

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Legends speak of banshees of the blue briny deep, whom cast bewitching
Spells mesmerizing voice and song, beware youthful mariner for charms echoing
Beauty, may cause deceptions fall from grace, nay naivety’s innocence
Attracts creatures of passions folly!
In...

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Christmas

           A zure Sky rejoiced and glanced on Green Earth.
           B ethlehem Star glistened, glittered...

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IF NOT

If you can’t keep your head when all around you 
Are keeping their’s and blaming it on you.

If you cannot trust yourself when all men look to you
And condemn them for relying on you...

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Parlous decisions
Have been made
Regarding our plants
Wrong hands played 

China now top nation
In terms of output
By manufacturing jobs
Leads USA hard put

Where do our parts
Come from for repairs
Where does our military
Gear appear~ despair 

Where do our vehicles
Arise?...

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When bludgeoned fell the mornings might
and parlous was the gloomy night,
the pillars of eve had moved away,
did horrors in the courtyard play;
Within a cold and vacant street
did night a man-less shadow greet,
rebellious each whose futile...

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Make your way through the parlous fog and place your trust in God,
As heather, moss and bracken fern embrace the peaty sod. 
Take the fork at the Roman road that seems the wilder choice,
Then wander...

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The darkest word in English is the darkness.
The real darkness differs from a starkness,
a rut of death with pennies on her lids.

The darkness, I repeat, has no bearing
on covered mirrors, farewells, despairing
and mourning lilies in...

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Twelve royal labors, you faced each challenge hard and mean.
Claimed delicate favors; made good on stripping a warrior queen.
Amazon rider, you jump her bareback as you please.
You get soul deep inside her with the pretty...

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C-ontain contagion of poison, 
R-epel rabidity of virus; 
I-solate the positive person, 
S-top the threat so serious.
T-ry to contain contagion
I-n each and every country; 
N-eatly bring it to oblivion, 
E-liminate the mystery: 

J-ust contain contagion
O-f...

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HIDDEN GIFTS

So long we live within confines self made
In patterns of our lives that seem unchanged
For safety of familiar curbs we trade
Our power where ‘cross parlous world we’d ranged

Why hazard chance of failure should we...

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