Long Wote Poems

NO BI STRANGERS:
No bi strangers to Our success,
dis na anderson walkingshoes.  
 i'm part for ya world for strangers, 
intensively,our focus are metered,
ova di hilly regions,we keep flopping from discovery,
di discovery na wey concern...

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NO BI STRANGERS TO OURSELVES:
dis na anderson walkingshoes.  
 i'm part for ya world for strangers, 
intensively,our focus are metered,
ova di hilly regions,we keep flopping from discovery,
di discovery na wey concern awa sef realisations,
make's...

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Nakuja
Kwa wito, NINAENDELEA – I COME I PRAISE--

I come
To the calling
I stand at this gathering
I stand
At my calling
With lifted hands—praising
I praise to the All Father
My Father-God
I come to the calling
To the calling of my Lord
I...

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To his Hungarian Jewish village, Moses returned
Atrocities were dismissed, his warnings spurned
He described Jews buried in ditches, gave details to persuade:
Agonized children, naked corpses, but the villagers were not swayed

Moses was diagnosed by his listeners...

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la la la la la (moja- means one)

Moja la la la la la
Hakuna nguvu Zaidi
Chochote zaida ya chini
Muumba wa mbingu

I praised that in Swahili
and in English it's. . .

One la la la la la
nothing more...

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English verse>
gimme sum mutual praise
gimme sum mutual praise
gimme sum mutual praise
All them there people's of the world;
Coastal dwellers praising; All day long, all the day long;
Rejoicing, and repenting of their wrongs.
Everybody on the islands;
Everywhere on...

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BA BA WA AJABU   Wonderful Father  by James Edward Lee Sr.

{{This is the most liked and viewed poem in my PoetrySoup roster with more 
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English verse>>
Oh, Lord;
I want you to help me;
My, God
Please God restore me;
Please God look out for me;
Please God endure all and all and all for me;
And I say'
As I pray;
Please God allow me to go...

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(I wote this after seeing an older man laboriously carrying water in a bucket and 
watering his small corn plants one-by-one.  The field was large and the task seemed 
to me to be hopeless....

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Talkin bout 'Ahunda,
Talkin bout 'Ahunda,
Talkin bout 'Ahunda;

Mtu huyu huko na suti ya kijivu cha flannel;
Yeye huko juu na takataka ya kuzungumza kwa kinywa hizNi jivin kufikiriNi yeye ni mzuri sana;
Na kumchukua dada huyo huko, yeah...

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-- Kukupenda wewe  Loving you  Loving You --swahili

Kukupenda wewe Loving you  Loving You
Kukupenda wewe Loving you  Loving You
Kukupenda wewe Loving you  Loving You
Hakuna mtu anayeweza kuwa bora zaidi kuliko wewe;
Hakuna...

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Lord you yet love me 
And I am so glad you do
Ninatubu kwa dhambi zangu
Zot. Bwana wewe bado upendo mimi
Sassssa mimi majuto nillipoteza
Mengi ya haki
Kwa sababu nilikuwa funga juu
Katika dhambi  zaangu
Na mimi alikuwa kufurahia...

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What an appropriate and applicable poem for Epiphany.
Iasiah wote about this and what had happened to Christ.
TS Elliott also wrote Travel of Magi

On a long trip Magi would travel
They rode on a plodding camel
Over hills...

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suicide
is the pain worth taking?
will i be better at the end?
shall the pain stop hurting
and i be brand new?
should i wait till it's my time to go?
havent i suffered enough?
the pain is still hurting
the sickness...

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Mungu
 amenisamehe katika dhambi zangu muda
 wote
 Mungu wangu Mungu wangu
 amenisamehe 
amenisamehe Wewe imani yangu kuwa 
mbali Bado na bado anakusanya matumaini yangu,
 ndoto yangu Mungu 
amenisamehe Katika dhambi zangu muda wote 
Mungu wangu,...

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