Short Somalia Poems

Their hearts filled with fear

Nothing could save them but us

Dying Africa*






© Demetrios Trifiatis
       06 April 2017


* Inspired by Cyndi's Macmillan plea for awareness: UN warns that more than
twenty million people in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen are threatened
to die because of a famine....

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Well babe,
 we is in Purgatory being purged during this ride,, 
and the turnstiles are waiting on the other side, 
to see whether its New York or Somalia on the flip side,
or a more subtle hell in the Earth...

to slide, 
this knowledge is all that you're worth,
not again came the echo ...denied...

Don Johnson...

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Jacks are played in Israel.
Jacks are played in Spain.
Jacks are played in Texas
And in the Florida rain.

Jacks are played in Korea
And played by kids like us.
Jacks are played in Hawaii.
Stop making all that fuss!

Jacks are played in Singapore.
Somalia and Zimbabwe too.
Jacks are played in Trinidad.
And probably Timbuktu....

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Wildfires rage in Texas,
Like they need the added heat;
And thirty shootings in New York
Made Labor Day complete.

Famine grips Somalia,
And the U.S.A.’s caught spying.
In Egypt, at Mubarak’s trial,
Witnesses are lying.

Eighteen in Yosemite
Have died while on vacation.
Victims of the hurricane
Are wracked with indignation.

A rainy day – I stayed indoors
And caught up with the news.
As if the rain were not enough,
The Times gave me the blues....

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Sandy nations of Arabia
bushes of Tropical Congo
rocky lands of Afghanistan
the dry soils of Somalia
waters of the Mediterranean
bush land of Karamoja*
forestland of Colombia
ragged dress of ozone layer
swampland of South Sudan
homeland of Aborigines
All dance to rhythm of same music
tragedy of intelligent man!

*Karamoja is the remotest
part of Uganda where the people called
Karamojong depend on cattle and nature!
Many die of hunger in a nation of plenty!...

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