The island of Gili Meno
is a best-kept secret, they say.
Where all the fashionistas go;
until it becomes a tad passé.
I read it in a glossy mag
while waiting for my root canal;
with where to go to see a stag;
the secret life of Marc Chagall.
Some other best-kept secrets were;
where you can buy THAT wedding dress,
or should you tip your dad’s chauffeur?
And are there monsters in Loch Ness?
I found an ‘unknown Cotswold pub’
the secret to a perfect pie’
a secret door to a nightclub’
and that it’s cool to grow bonsai.
That Lady X once dated HIM;
that he collects his navel fluff;
quite why that singer’s rather slim
(and she was photo’d in the buff!)
A best-kept-secret hideaway,
the booking details right below.
Where is the best all-day buffet,
in France they call their water eau.
Best-kept secrets are all around.
Shush, don’t let everybody know
exactly where it was you found
how to book that French chateau.
Kosa Lipi kukukosea?
Penzi Mbona waniteka!
Hisia sizo tetereka,
Kuni za huba kuchochea,
kambani kunifunga,
Penzi nisikutoke,
Hata usiponifunga,
Penzi siwezi ponyoka.
Mitetemo yenye huba,
Mapigo ya moyo kuchonyota,
Yanifanya kibogoyo,
Hali kuwa nna meno,
Niseme nini tena?
Penzi laniteka!
Kutekwa penzini,
Kutoroka siwezi.
Mtekaji ni laazizi,
Kwa Mapenzi simuwezi,
Kanifunga kwa hisia,
Minyororo yenye kopa,
Kutoroka mie siwezi,
Kwa mapenzi namuenzi,
Ameniteka milele,
Burudani yetu milele.
now over forty
Peony arrives
all dressed in white
her perfume
still attracts
NB our peony is 47 this week
Voyagers, convene thyselves to return, among us...
Caesura, crown nigh clod, a sylph unwept,
elision thy silhouette, meno thy minuet...
Thine late occurence on thee, wake of cerise sand
Thou belief, like a billow, upon your whitish cheek,
'Twas marina bay, her twaddle a garb of mer,
A henchman docks, thy quay, girdles stymie ebbs,
but he cannot dream aloft a dream she confers...
O'er to woo hand in hand, thou overture unto Sirocco,
Plagues thy pirate ships, quakes men with mar,
His and his only demand, an aegis for lagoons amidst...
Once deluged, sun askew above, one abyss of bagatelles
Deters a tocsin, feign mooting mammals, thy kin a boon,
Aquatica, thee damsel for diminuendos, spurns thy sire,
Her gentle mettle, calls thee, His fervor season calentures...
Aloof thy celestial kisser, nay thy nine, vim domiciles solitary
Doomed skulls ravish, an age id by ice, culls thee, for chastity,
Some may not know, we died to have our love live, over and again,
Amity vows posy littoral seaflowers, buoys colonnades of adventure...
thence, cradles await upon matins, sail thy Oceanus genesis, amen.
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