Okapi thought he was a horse
Attempted to blend in, of course
Zebras kicked him out
Horses ran about
But okapi had no remorse
A Congolese okapi brings me
Your love letter, darling !
You decided well to not send
It via the sky this time.
You said that you want to see me,
Face to face.
Oya! Well done darling,
My future wife!
You are so rarely
Like a Congolese okapi !
You are most beautiful
Like an African peacock!
I think you won't faint
When you will see me
Because I am not handsome.
No one will call you a robber
If you succeed to steal my heart.
No person will call you lazy girl
If your one look provokes
Earthquake into my entire body.
I don't know how I will be feelling
Seeing the moon in my house daily.
My late grand father used to say,
" A man can achieve
Many things when he is in love."
My grand mother always said,"
If you knock on the wrong door,
You find a bad girl and
You will be finished."
I am already a victim
As I knocked on a wrong door earlier.
I think you will not mess up
My hard achievement.
I think you will always be poetry
In my entire life.
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe
Mussabwa Chris
A giraffe, an Okapi and a blue wildebeest
Walked into a bar hoping to have an horde ‘ore feast
A bongo, an Asian water buffalo came in too.
I’ve decided to sneak out. How about you?
I love to see to see bunnies, so hoppy,
with small twitching noses and floppy,
cute ears or a llama,
the cause of such drama.*
I'm charmed by the unique okapi!
Stumped viewers are always inquiring,
“What IS that?” They stare, so admiring
this zebra-giraffe,** for
it is neither one nor
the other—and so awe-inspiring.
*a reference to the popular children’s story “Drama Llama”
(about a llama that gossips and stirs up trouble among the
other animals) and the topic of entertaining videos
**another name for the okapi, native to the Congo
I went to the Zoo and saw an Okapi,
Unlike the Hare, he did no hippity-hoppy.
But, like his cousin the Giraffe,
It truly had to make me laugh,
Its long tongue kept its ears from getting sloppy.
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