Long Tata Poems

 TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan

(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west coast of...

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[Non-Fictional Preface: Fictional Old Folks Home/Apparition] "This is the story of two friends, both considered themselves start-up writers, whereas, one who was a bit more of an upstart, was merely known as, Robert Frost. Frost's...

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"Robert Frosts', friend, Edward Thomas was an indecisive fellow, until that one day they took the other road Edward wanted, and of course, Robert's piece was not Edward's choice to say the least, so when...

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CECE YA FAMILIA, HONOR, LIKE TWINS

She is looking at mi with love.
in her eyes and a look..
concerned about her bro...
i try to second guess her
today she inst playing ball
she stares back determined..
hedging me between a...

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I trace my existence back to

Iye mwen N’ogie (My great Mother).

You see when I was but a foetus

In a womb of the homo sapien whom I will

Later call my mother.

I lay brooding, developing and

Metamorphosing in...

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Why do we fight,
just cause we don't agree?
Seems like we have enough to 
waste of time and energy.

They made Shylock antagonist
but really he was more right than he was Jew 
for we all have the...

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Can you listen up to my heart beat
  Or is it the beats from that beat?
  It's the radio,
  Then it goes on gently
  Yes, like a long thin snake
 ...

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Know 
something you don't know.
If you hear about Nyamuhunda Namusabwa 
Who was married to Muhaila 
Kahumbuluka 
one of the princesses of Bavila
 in the nineteenth century, 
Sister of Prince Luhongeka Ngengethe Musabwa
and Lutambwe Kibaya Nyangamba Musabwa...

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Part Two

shrinking you again within our ruwai
though always fearing, always cringeing at the thought
of the day
when his brothers would come in numbers
bearing fire-spitting engines
over the sodden earth
in search of you

« My people… my PEOPLE…
Will avenge...

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We were black and beautiful
But now we black and blank
They came all the way from the west
To our precious land AFRICA
Look now we are the worse
.
We were black and rich
We had everything we needed
Skills, knowledge...

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18 July 1918
Mnvezo you gave birth
A birth to a son of Chief Henry 
Mandela
In the land of the Bathembu 
Tribe

You nourished your son with 
great breasts
The breasts the never dried 
out of milk
Fort hare and...

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A raging bull
Trapped in a cell
Counting the years
To the end of his fears

Robben Island
Dealt us a thieving hand
That stole our Tata
And left us in tatters 

But between mountains
Grew the heart of a lion
Between the largest...

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Ta pime yaah ta pime yaah bam
Rata tata rata tata bam
Ta pime yaah ta pimi yaah bam
Tears drip from the face of the weeping drum. 
The drum the drum the drum
Screaming and shouting
Crackling and rackling...

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I am a 2 gig desktop computer in the 21st century,
A phone model that’s just been phased out,
How can I convince the youngsters that I also had my days?
I am a Tata Nano right in...

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dedicatation about nature colors and beauty  to my love,my beautiful soul @fadingstarsilence ???tata micia ..you are my masterpiece in this universe


Sparkling nocturnal sky of constellations and glimmering stars, 
wraps our twining souls in their...

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P.O.E.m 2013

I.
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Pretoria isn't far from Soweto yet
Earth's curve still hid each from the other
As blind eyes denied the other's pride
Colored only, European only - apartheid
Eradicated, chance for understanding

Only blood and bombs could determine
Negro and white...

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Some believe that many names is a 
sign of stature, of importance.
How appropriate Tata that you are called
father, well as all those other monikers

Father of so many, how did you fill the time?
Three short steps,...

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For Madiba


as you continue the struggle some more, today for life...

'it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die' you said, all those years ago

as you stood in the dock awaiting the sentence...

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Children of absent fathers walk around with empty baskets in their hearts, waiting for anything that resembles love to fill them up. 

A lesson in love:

Your eyes are kind and beckoning, you must be a...

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Unkosi Rholihlahla Mandela,
born into the Madiba clan in the village of Qunu 	
grow up in Mvezo in Umtata,Transkei
Dalibhunga, the prince of the Tembu tribe
son of umama Nonqaphi Nosekeni 
son of Nkosi Hendry Mphakanyiswa Gadla Mandela

father...

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Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time

This teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though
that tremendous tugging

teasing tendency thirst trumped,
thru teaching this totally tubular
toothless titular Texan thuggish tyrant
(titled Tsar Terry Troutman)
transcendental theology

tenets taught transferring
torpedoing, taming threatening
titanic tsunami tempest
tastefully...

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This teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though
that tremendous tugging

teasing tendency thirst trumped,
thru teaching this totally tubular
toothless titular Texan thuggish tyrant
(titled Tsar Terry Troutman)
transcendental theology

tenets taught transferring
torpedoing, taming threatening
titanic tsunami tempest
tastefully tickling temperance
testing trying taut...

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(NOTHING MORE TO SAY)

I've seen the way you look at me
I've seen the way you look at them
Without wanting to admit, you hate everything I stand for
Lying to yourself, you are sweet, caring and better
Still,...

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8 CUPS OF STALE BREAD- TOASTED AND CUBED
3 CUPS OF COOKED BROWN RICE
2 CUP OF MUSTARD GREENS, DRAINED AND CHOPPED FINE
2 CUPS OF ONIONS CHOPPED
1/4 CUP OF GARLIC CRUSHED
3 CUPS OF COOKED HAMHOCK MEAT DICED...

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ISEYIN MY TOWN
If you don't know,
'Emi lomo ISEYIN  ORO
'Oro omo EBEDI MOKO.
I know my town, I love my town,
I celebrate my town, as great town to everyone, I praise my town, and I cheer...

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