Long Shrike Poems

Drink the Namibia Countryside 

Namibia a West African country, on the Atlantic coast
Namibia’s beauty is wonderfully surreal and alluring,
With endless savannah and bushland 
With most stunning landscapes in Africa, 
with acres of ocean shores, woodland...

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Morountodun,
this is the place you'll find me
like the prey of a shrike
choked through by your thorny words
When the chase after Omo Ogun with your heart
Failed to be anything worthy to steal the cheapest glance from...

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Angifi Dladla

BAYEDE    

Bayede , Son of man, Bayede!
You who outsmart the invisible God of our ancestors,
You who perfect the creations of the One-Who-Cannot-Be-  
      Imagined.
Modernizer of...

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I researched the earth's endangered species list and this is what I found.
There's everything on the list from A to Z - rare species just abound!
I'll highlight some of the more interesting varieties just to...

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Across the limpid and serene river, the oasis of the Wild West pioneers,
there are ivory and charcoal peaks waiting for mountaineers
to discover as they rest under the long-leafed pines that sway;
on this side, the saw-tooth...

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Pastoral Quilt.

A pastoral quilt
Of varied greens
And russet tawny browns
Surveyed  by adoring eye
On verge of a hill
High above he ground
The provaling wind 
Reddens my cheeks
With a slight bite
And tussles my hair 
As I breath in...

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1/30/17


Shrike, planes, kites and satellites
In flight

Above pike, mice, parasites
And all other types of life

Atop the highest heights

Down in the deepest depths out of sight


Thinking twice
Just might
Suffice
For doing it right

During a life
Rife
With strife

Rituals and rites
Some of...

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A Poem for the Grey Shrike written on Earth Day 2016

At sunrise while asleep
I was called by a bird tweet
Like a childhood song
So sharp so sweet

Awoke. Washed. Dressed . Prepared to greet
But the voice got...

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betwixt the circuitous cocoon of rose hips wrestles a world of unfathomable infamy 
induced by light and shadow murmur influences ridicules scent.

conscripted into nature's loggerhead shrike chirp by forces unknown
influenced by the pestilence of greeds...

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