Long Zaire Poems

Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted   
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous groundhog
gets his (most often male)
foretelling...

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Limricks prompted by a comment made by someone today

It's a fact, and no longer just a rumor
Some soup people barf at toilet humor
Have you sniffed your own butt 
It stinks so keep it shut
Pessimism must...

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I remember meeting you many years ago
That warm Sunday afternoon 
I remember the love I got from you, your mum, your dad and your sister 
Like an avalanche you guys embraced me with greater love...

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Misery accompanied, haltered, tethered... tattered web

This health conscious lx year
roam'n, hoodwinking hoodlum doth wear
two pair bullet proof underwear,
(which confession rarely trumpeted),
plus yours truly admits unclear
why tibia long in the tooth fellow,

prevaricates with tongue in cheek...

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Thine distorted reflection rippled 
within rain maker's pool 
   upon a midnight clear
full moonlight sonata 
   flooded shallow abyss, 
cleaved fractal structures of silence 
reverberating deathly hallow from 'ere
to infinity, whence...

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OKAY? WHAT FIEND STOLE THY BODY ELECTRIC!?

thine distorted reflection rippled 
within rain maker's pool upon a midnight clear
full moonlight flooded shallow abyss, 
cleaved fractal structures of silence 
reverberating deathly hallow from 'ere
to infinity, whence magic...

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Thursday, December 31, 2020 signals conclusion of latest leap year

Whether alphabetized, digitized, 
homogenized, marginalized, satirized... place names
from "A" to Zaire
Thursday, December 31, 2020
signals conclusion of latest leap year.

The Pacific island of Tonga first
to ring in...

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I Cannot Be Any Moar Pacific!

A welcome reprieve
     against blistering hazy,
     hot and humid
     meteorological suffocating air

found me voluntarily
    ...

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Captured by the beauty of Lillian
I think of her on the coast of Durban.
With her is where I want to be.
So beautiful she could be a Wodaabe.
There's no way I could assign a worth,
Indeed the...

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From Andover to Anaheim
Bangor to Boise
People speak up
Come on, get noisy

From Carteret in Jersey
To Cameroon far away
Speak up everyone
If just for one day

From Detroit to Dallas
Eaton to Ecuador
Come on everyone
Speak up some more

From France and...

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She is the mother place of all humanity.
From her womb was birthed the first man.
The first self aware and inventive beast,
Standing erect, carrying tools of his own invention.

Science tells us that in the beginning....
All men...

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What is it about a hug?  Have you ever wondered why
we use this little squeeze of affection 
when we greet our friends and family…
and…when we say goodbye?

The hug is universal…it can be found everywhere…from...

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Inspired by Joseph Mays Limerick 11 contest
and a bonus one.

NOT FOR CONTEST

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A randy old dentist called Keith 
Drugged patients and played with their feet
Sucked the toe of a marine
Who then woke up looking mean
Now poor...

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Brother Joseph 

Brother Joseph loved whiskey to drink
Never washed and oh boy did he stink
Monks  stuck him in a tub
All took turns him to rub
He's no longer called the missing link.

Old Sparky

A cruel robber...

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Aha! Where is Kwame Nkrumah?	
Black-unity champion with cocoa-filled head whose 
Calabash never misses palm wine for elders;
Departure to bliss not a reality, tell us why?

Everything must be done to wake up Patrice Lumumba
Freedom fighter for...

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It is the origin and hope of a thousand children, the love that transforms young seedlings to plants.
 
Its breath canvasses the woods of the Zaire o'er the hills of Zimbabwe down to the lowlands...

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De bor' ah is her Congo name,
To mispronounce it such a shame,
For few would read and say it right,
I asked: a sweet smile brought to light!
My travels though suggested in,
But butterflies? To trap's a sin!...

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Oh! Mother Africa!
From the East to the West, from the North to the South of     
               ...

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Great black apparition in the jungles thick
Soft loving bellows heard, rough articulation
Fairly a glimpse may been seen today
As your magnificence dwindles to nothingness

From a volcanic region you originate
Zaire, Rwanda and Uganda is all there is...

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Children already grown
Kisses already forgotten 
Plants already flowered
Flowers already burgeoned 
Forests depleted
Streams degenerated
Hear the desperate cries
Feelings already aged
Hearts already bruised
Souls already alienated
And lovers already gone
We have nothing left
The singing birds
The meowing cats
Always on our shoulders
And...

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Uncle Roo
I forgot to celebrate your 89TH 
Birthday but as you turn 90 
May be i will 
Some how for the some reasons

You know it
Gaddafi Is dead
'king of kings'
who died like a mole in a...

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Sunday 
Blank screen waits for me to fill it with strange letters, 
but there is no haste as this is a lazy sunny afternoon.
Earlier today when the window shutters were still on
someone knocked on my...

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MAIL   PUZZLE

Indians call India  Bharat, so now you know.  
And the Chinese call China   Zhong-Guo
Islands are called Malvinas by some guys,
And Falklands by those with different  ties. 
Congo?...

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Z, so zealously misunderstood, 
Zeus gives her zest, as only Zeus could.
Zigzagging and zipping in response 
To Zoology’s play,
We have to use Z more often,
or she will zigzag away.

Z barely takes up six pages of...

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Carrion kings crow callous things in settled twilight cracks;
Their cankered queens quote noxious reams down croaking fabric tracks.

A patterned noose attentive sits atop a patient peak,
Whilst zephyrs drone from Zaire to home to wheeze unto...

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