Long Savannahs Poems

A KIND RECONSIDERATION 
OF THE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS
IN A DIFFICULT TIME
I
I am interested in Moses,
the baby in the bulrushes
who eventually was able
to speak truth to power and
delivered his people to a
promised land
I am interested in Saul...

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I was a successful, scientific explorer, traveling to the remote, distant lands,
Bettering noble lives of many, like budding, green spring which understands.

And every day held fruitful discovery, as when the autumn colors are flying,
Or when...

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I was an ambitious fine watchmaker, looking forward to sunshine tomorrows,
Like the remote edge of a fuchsia horizon, where gather racy, blue swallows.

I worked on clocks of all styles and sizes, repairing both old and...

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FEEL AFRICA

Silence!
Silence Africa!
One can hardly get Africa to be silent;
Africa habours a pulsating bubble.
Everyone in Africa bounces to rhythm resilient.

Africa, like Zambia, or
Zambia, like Africa;
Dear ones, whichever comes first
Swells with energy in the sun!

You see...

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In Africa's embrace, freedom sings,
Through vast plains and rivers' springs.
A continent's heartbeat, strong and true,
Where dreams take flight, where hopes renew.

From ancient tribes to modern days,
A tapestry of colors, myriad ways,
The spirit dances, unbound and...

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Did you see the showman,
His act a lion he outran!
Let me tell you how it all began,
When in youth he lived in a van.

Where the lion hunted,
For food it was confronted.
A sad tale it resulted,
In...

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Acid has become our rain
and oceans with mercury do we stain
dioxin lies beneath our ground
in everything toxic materials be found
 
E-coli is used to alter genes in food
where recombinant DNA is understood
heavy metals do the...

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Raise the flag and let it fly high
On every mouth of joy they cry
File unto the street with dance of many styles
This is a special day for a mankind

Raise the sword in the air for...

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Mother Earth bearded with trees, 
Blanketed with skin of sod,
Her stony organs composed
of caves, caverns and caches, 
Banking precious minerals and gems.
Sustained by the Solar system surrounding her,
and nourished from relished rescources within.

Her ferocious fiery...

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Where sun-kissed savannahs endlessly sweep,
And acacia crowns the skies, a verdant keep,
A titan walks, with earth-shaking tread,
A monument of grace, with wisdom bred.

Oh, Elephant, colossal and wise,
Your eyes, like embers, gleam beneath the skies.
Your ivory...

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Honoured is our kin 
fed with a sliver spoon
bred and reared in Elysium.
Swith is he, an ironic typhoean _
(he 'l be)- Our immerse hero..
So will he slump a thousand times
but not like a coward.
 ...

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Moral army, 
As always said," African youths
are well organised and disciplined." 
Fighting with the westerners  
in african territories 
It is not the calls or visions.
Everyone is tired to see dead bodies 
of the innocent young...

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I had a chat with Africa, and these were her complaints, Whispers carried on the winds of forgotten saints. Her voice was a tapestry woven in hues of despair, In her heart, the weight of...

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"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces." - John Ruskin  1853

Remnants of a Rainbow

Empty road
Winds the season of afternoon
Through still, anticipating, plains -
Wilderness savannahs -
Chases earth’s ever sloping curve
Lost in time
Under the...

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Africa…. Just the mention of her name creates a range of mixed feelings  
Feelings of joy, disappointment and rage, leave me baffled, exhausted!
So vast and beautiful is this land blessed with amazing contrasts 
From...

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Yesterday's loud welcome 
Dance of the night. 
Linda-Marie's dot pens 
Celebrate  the happy woman
and the love lair
Spicing the world.

But not just happy woman
The ribful happy man too
Whose rib gladened 
And brought her forth
To rule...

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hieroglyphics would have been more appealing
in epitomizing a backward spin to the ancient scenes
the heart of a glorious dynasty to have existed
a time machine of reviving words will do the trick
and pay tribute to the...

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In the land of my birth,
Where the acacia trees stretch tall,
And the savannahs extend beyond the horizon,
I am reminded of my roots,
Of the days when my ancestors roamed these lands.

But now, I wander,
Lost in a...

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I Wish I Was

You know if I were an animal
I'd wish that I was
I wish I was a giraffe
For only then I could eat of the fruit trees and not grass
I'd wish that I was...

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The ancestral savannahs of my people
Are still alive in the unseen horizons
Our grandparents have told us many
Wonderful things about our tribe
Before they arrived, we were here

On the banks of the rivers and streams
We stood and...

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We are the keepers of hills
Of creeks and rivers and savannahs
Yet the shrills
Of the afflicted echo throughout the world
Filling Earth’s threshold with painful noise
We sleep amidst the desperate cries
Of animals, lands and skies, though
We percede...

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I
You have seen them tell ... of things Indian
In dark South Africa, in the 1960s, BOMBAY ...
MADRAS, and CALCUTTA were destinations
As great as LONDON! We didn't know NYC, or Paris
Yes, old cultures have stories, much...

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when the sun sets and the moon arises
the real things come with their dark surprises
 lay low down and shut yor mouth
and wait for the wild things of the south

  Florida panther and the...

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"I Shall A Mighty Hunter Be!"

“I shall a mighty hunter be,
The King of Kills, by God’s decree!
Savannahs always guarantee
a vantage camouflaging me.
  
I’ll lie in wait with sharpened claws
… until her keys unlock our...

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I want to take a scalpel
And surgically remove countenance
I want to fire a chainsaw
And massacre fast food consciousness
Sever and slash rinky dink rememberance

If you want to honor the dead
Let's go dance on gravestones
Not forgetting the...

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