Short Nairobi Poems

Like a lazy patient serpent 
Machines line up to an infinite stretch
Yonder is Nairobi, barely minutes
Away, only if traffic would thaw 
No option but enjoy the engines' hum...

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She is from Nairobi, a highlighted nation of luminaries
A country that encourages the education of women
She has her masters and her PHD but none of that matters
When the men see how beautiful she is, they discount her brilliance....

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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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SUMMER NIGHT IN THE NAIROBI BEER GARDEN


                    goats crop blooms
              tall herders nonchalant 
                      nip an ale

                      sun drops low
               crickets are counting drinks
                      last call squeak...

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Going to Nairobi
To make some macaroni 
I will be back
With candy, full bags of candy
I will miss you, in my trip so fancy
I will bring stories and tales to last a year
Of handsome strong African men
Of beautiful brown African women
Of kids, with their freedom and flame...

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The warmth of Nairobi in January is gone now.
Here it's cold and drizzly, a savannah 
of tarmac and metal jumbos before me.  
My natural rhythms have given way
to this soaring erratic chase of the sun.
But I return to warmth—the desert heat
of southern Arizona, and the ardent glow
of my heart when I hold you in my arms....

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A place to call home
A field in which to roam
A hundred and fifteen reasons
As many Christmas seasons

We are justifiably proud
To be one of the crowd
Come rain or sunshine
We are just fine

Under lockdown, our spirits soar
To toast each other, once more
As,our illustrious past Chairs, we praise
To Chairman, John, our glasses we raise...

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There was a fancy snake from Paris, France
Who had a thing for lacy underpants
  He tried to put some on
  But they only slid down
They were designed for cute, pink elephants


There once was a rattler from Nairobi
Who found himself in Arizona's Gobi
  When he saw a rocket ship
  He thought he'd take a long trip
Aboard spacecraft "Obi wan-Kenobi"...

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Dark Cloud


( Nairobi Mall Attack)

What the Dark Cloud bestows
no even a Clairvoyant knows

Unless if it breaks into a Flow
None can estimate the blow.

Rolling, writhing 'fore rupture
wicked, amorphous structure

Eerie and dark, low it hovers
menacing to break its covers:

For, Hate is that heavy cloud
brandishing Guns in its shroud

Bursting into a grisly Flood
of Tears, and innocent blood!



25th September 2013...

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N ows here the place Joy Adams was chased
A s the lion cubs let loose followed her scent
I n haste through stores and stalls in riotous glee
R ight to her they led George he begged her to stay
O utwitted in her ploy to go she tried again to leave
B ut the lion cubs sure had other ideas and circled her
I nstead she found  that no way could she leave them 

written 09/19/2013

contest skipping six,Going Straight to Seven- Acrostics challenge #3...

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David Guetta said it best

Mine has no cowboys, horses or guns
Mine is just us two 
Just the way we met under this sun
Walking the streets of Nairobi
Exploring the city's day and night
Drinking cold beers 
Mostly listening to your stories and dreams
Napping to you reading poetry to me
Watching your goofy dance that one night
The three moods that made us: the anticipation, the excitement and the continuing wonder.
Keeps the shine on......

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