Envious Muta* sealed the lips of the beloved with a kiss silencing thus clamant love!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
12 August 2017
*Muta: Roman deity personifying silence!
Categories:
muta, death, love, silence,
Form: Monoku
Mother of the forest green
Across a complicated boundary
Of loyalties
I bring you esteem for life
Surging through the forest heart
You are a shade
The brains of it, the blood
That bled from the umbilical movement
Of its urge to be
I heard Kilmanjaro thunder
Rain was about to fall
I saw the pregnant cloud
Black and strong
Bountiful with the juice of wind
Wangari Muta
Maathai, the mother
Of the green revolution
I saw the new morning
Forbidding the rape
Of a beautiful body kindling desire
From the first fire
Of creation
The thunder broke sweat
Like a river from the sky
Pouring your veins
Content in a movement
Protecting the innocence of the trees
It was a beginning
That marked
The end of Arap Moi footsteps
Up the mountain of power
O you made so
Beautiful hour
Your courage after the blow
That's the moment
I loved you
The martyr for the trees.
Categories:
muta, black african american, dedication,
Form: Free verse
I am a Maroon
Flesh and blood and everything
My spirit cries against the toxic air
Of cities, and broken moon
Perched on skyscrapers
Surveying ruin
Blowing with greasy scraps of paper
Through the horror of night
Eagles with broken wings.
I want to enter the bush again
And be still
Within the wash of rain
Far from the folding clothes of pain
Cankering my will.
I am Maroon
Lover of the land like Muta
Baruka
On when the California fires burn
I sit and smile with the sun
Staring at my wings of wax.
Categories:
muta, allegory
Form: Free verse