Long Rift valley Poems

When our cries travel not again through the sky
And the sun shines directly on our barren heads
Communal labour to clear filth render to apologies
The wise who hear and cautions spoke of no truth
And the land...

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Inverse Goddess of life,
You destroy what you refuse to love,
Love not, what your loins thirst for,
The smallest act of pleasure for you,
When you pee, when you poo,
Drives another nail into the weathered,
Worn planks of my...

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mother star beams as she beholds her errant brood
  six diverse, rocky planets
  the innermost, a dense, two-faced, frosty furnace
  the outermost, pulverised
  much interfered with by a jovial neighbour
 ...

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an average of 2,830 cubic meters

per second of rich silt

forms an alluvial plain 

spreads outward in a fan shape

from sedimentary deposit whereby

ancient Egyptian civilizations got built

adorning arid topography invaluable

like aorta pumping blood at the nape

of...

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The home of mankind and makind’s favourite drink
existing in a size bigger than spain and france combined
with its new flower, a diplomatic capital of its continent
and a paradise for vegetarians having the tastiest, healthiest 
and...

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From Tripoli to Cairo
I saw the intifada leftover
After Tunisia and Yemen
Like a dam broken
After it had sucked life from dry sand
Morocco, Kuwait, Djibouti and Oman
I heard birds singing at the cliff
Falsetto dawn
In the rift valley...

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MOMBASA

Full moon uneasiness
Veranda dining, seven course style,
One day after my thirty sixth birthday,
I dine alone, in a poem.
Waiting for the Moon to pass to wane 
and contemplate for Zanzibar, in vain. . .

MARATHON

Leawa Downs Marathon
Elevation...

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Take a journey through the East African Plains soaring temperatures of 120 degrees and that is in the shade. Intensified sounds of insects humming and buzzing. Going
about their daily life cleaning things up and pollinating...

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HONEYMOON DESTINATION

Homo sapiens have travelled very far in time
From the gaping rift valley all around the earth
Invented science, shaped their future and dream
Modern man evolved to get full value its worth.

Space is pierced by rockets,...

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I
Salvation is the first freedom of humanity
"Homo Sapiens," self-defined, "Wise Man" from
Africa, Olduvai Gorge, the Rift Valley, experts say
Research especially why we are special: conundrum -
Every BOOK (& Bible) said we are SPECIAL, mutes (The...

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HER WISH….
To strip its last dignity have it bare and hopeless
longing for warmth. The sun rays to kiss its soma burn its soul leaving nothing but a
ghost clothed with shame regret and loss. 
Loss of...

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KILIMANJARO

Almost lost.  Scanty  ice below equator,
Trackless wilderness of ice and fire.
Africa’s king.  I’ve climbed none  higher.
Kilimanjaro  with majestic  crater

Like the  long-gone  dodos,  -   ...

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What great energy
existed
way back then
and what
or who
thrust it out
in all
directions
with
unimaginable speed
How
was that energy
transformed
becoming matter
gaining mass
Was it
by design
determination
destiny
or
random behavior
of the elements?
Carbon
oxygen
hydrogen
acting
interacting
in all things.
Forming bodies
heavenly
earthly
Creating
evolving.
Giving us
life
giving us
home.
Dropping us
down
in the
Great
Rift Valley
to start
our journey
to somewhere
or nowhere.
???????...

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