Short Kenya Poems

A kaleidoscope 
spinning her colors
africas  kenya...

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Kenya summer walk
Heavy footfalls approaching
Pride passes by...

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scouts stand proud
two spears and shield
immortalizing Kenya's legacy


Name: Teddy Kimathi

Country: Kenya...

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no sun like an African sun
her waters turn a pinkish red
are those zebras or unicorns?
nothing surprises me here
Kenya is a magical place
center of the world...

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Her left side and right side are not the same
Zebra from Kenya, hunter’s big game
Her stripes are as diverse and unique as they can be
Sometimes in groups of twos, tens or threes...

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THE LADY WHO BATHES IN PUBLIC


                         Harlot Moon
                         Languishes in Star-bath
                         Shamelessly



Victoria Anderson-Throop
12/27/12
Juja, Kenya...

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Kenya kangaroo flying colorful kaleidoscope kite
gnawing nimble gnashy night crawlers on Nairobi’s night
enticing enthusiastic Englewood eagles, filling them with excite
making melodious music, merrymaking magic as they might...

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Safari buzz is near...
A continent no luxury
To domesticate its giraffes and steer-
Plows mud enclaves
As the storm leers

Yet full of good cheer
No worries-
Especially in Kenya

We're all out on loan
To the universe
Let's see what we do...

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It was love at the start.

Not even the distance of their countries,

 could keep them apart.

Their love climbed many mountains,

and swarm the sea.

Too bring their hearts together,

like a contiguous disease.

Love Deborah...

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Bloodied  but not 
down,    red the colour of 
our flag, risen at dawn, to 
build under the sky,  a 
nation under the stars, 
tears flow due to the 
loss,    of the ones  we 
love,   the sons and 
daughters,   forever we 
are one. 
Kenya...

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Red for Blood
White for Peace
Black for People of Kenya
Green for Natural Wealth

Pain
Depressed 
Tears
Families 
Kids
Stolen wealth/youth 
Destroyed lives

Peace, Peace
Peace, Love and Unity
The shield and spears for Defence of Freedom...

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LOVE THOUGHTS AT DUSK

                                         Bathing in twilight
                                    recollections grab my sky--
                                          indigo captive



Victoria Anderson-Throop
Dec 25, 2012
Juja, Kenya...

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If you're looking for a UNIQUE getaway, now don't laugh
In Nairobi, Kenya, there's a hotel where you can feed giraffes
Through your second floor window
No, I'm not some kind of weirdo
These gentle giants wait to be fed and pose for photographs...

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Afrika of Mapendo
The foetus is smiling in her Tumbo, 
Which is big like an African Tembo.
Afrika of precious Roho,
singing  lovely Rumba,
traditional Ngoma
making Simba
dancing on long Mulima
Which is  called Kilimanjaro
In Tanzania 
And Kenya. 

July 17/2023...

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carpe diem
live for today
eat that piece of chocolate pie with the whipped cream
swim the length of the English channel
photo-hunt those lions in Kenya
jump out of a 747 without a chute
okay, maybe I went a bit too far
but you get my point right?
carpe diem
live for today!...

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I & U 
never made it to perfection.
		I remain un(decided) about
	weather and storms
(orclearskie);        and
	distance of another world;
		
			africa(Uganda;Kenya) is an

		un(faith)ful friend. & finally th(is)
	Not a poem about l(u)ve
they’re as un(likely) as we're[1]...

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I look at the mist and gloom 
and I'm rapt in thought of
the northern summer
for though I stand on the equator
For that is my station in truth
Yet this is but cold and misty
For if the truth be told
That is how things stand here
On the slopes of Mt Kenya
In the hot summer of the north....

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The setting sun smears the western clouds orange
Africana sunset hue
A Full moon rises on the east
And steals its way stealthily up the heavens
A portable portrait in the vaulted skies
A silhouette painting of a nursing mother
Playing hide and peep between the clouds

CENTRAL KENYA, OCTOBER 2014...

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WINDOW PEACE

Bird darts
Behind the blankets and the sheets
Crushed hearts
Tear holes in lives that once were neat
Day shines
On grieving heads too sad to lift
Refines
Life that adapts to steely gifts
Moon glows
To ease eyes on a broken place
And
     I’m told
            My endless peace rests in your face


Victoria Anderson-Throop  12/03/12
Juja, Kenya...

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The Kenya natives still tell of the time
The flying elephants came out of the mine.
They flew through the air and knocked things down.
People were shrieking and running around.

It was terrific! The ones who were young always say.
It was awful! Say the inflexible, the very worst day.
Quite exciting! The enthusiastic ones said.
I could barely fathom it in my little head....

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THE KILLING NIGHT IN KENYA

Lush green fields cushion diamond skies--
Cattle rustlers burst through night
Machetes swinging like a game 
Mid spring blooms whose scent delights

Rifles slung like children’s packs
Hug shoulders that should lie abed
Blood trails flow moonlit from stealth feet
Leaving sixty sleeping people dead

Victoria Anderson-Throop
12/30/12 ©

Death week of 12/22/12...

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It seems so far yet so near
we must get there without fear
this is something we hoped each year
and now at fifty years we still must steer
to build Kenya our country so dear.
fifty years we are not still at pur
But look back and see we are from far
we have wanted always to shine like a star
and in our effort us nothing is going to bar
to build Kenya our country which is so dear...

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We are one nation, one blood,
In times of sorrow, we calm each other,
In moments of horror, we cluddle together,
When we slip on the way, we hold each other,
When terror strikes, we defend together,
We are one nation, one blood.
We shed it for each other.

(Dedicated to my beloved Kenya in memory of Westgate attack. In times of difficult we have proved our unit and boundaryless love - God bless Kenya)...

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ROMANCE

Rarely do I find a fragrant love note at my door
Often when I read of love I want to try once more
Maybe golden dalliance is lurking round the bend
Always I am hunting for a lover and a friend
No one should be lonely-- that is what I’m told
Carelessly we treat the kind & hanker for the bold--
Excitement may be nice but I want hugging when I’m cold



Victoria Anderson-Throop
Juja, Kenya
Dec 25, 2012...

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Oh, pretty pastel lion with your puffy cheeks
Beauty is in your colors, your eyes green as creeks.
A mere description is not enough to show your worth.
I hear you have admirers from Kenya to Perth.

I wonder about your heritage your fur is so true.
With a gorgeousness about it in both pink and blue.
Oh pretty pastel lion, you are what we talk about.
However, we do not want to meet you on our walk-about....

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