Cry Uhuru Cry Freedom
...Until the blood
Flowing in my veins equals
The blood flowing in theirs
The cry for freedom
Will persist and insist
Uhuru is my cry for freedom
Until the tongue
I speak ...
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Categories:
uhuru, analogy, angst, feelings, pain,
Form: Elegy
Monthly Rhym One
...I have to nail my sale of pail on a board, otherwise my employer Will, will wail and say that I am a fail yet I save to sail in the boats of Uhuru Park. Dear friend will I ever make a good sale if I ...
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Categories:
uhuru, inspiration, motivation, poetry, spoken
Form: Rhyme
Peaceful Stolen World
...As I sit and watch
Watch you denounce the obligatory violence
Announcing and pronouncing the fabricated freedom
Joyfully commemorating and celebrating your assassinated true leaders
The enemy kil...
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Categories:
uhuru, africa, freedom, leadership, peace,
Form: Free verse
Kilimanjaro
...Far
Away
in space
and time, yet
fixed in memory
we wake in the dark
and climb the spree by
flashlight reaching Gilman’s
Point where we watch the sun rise
in the east over the Indian ...
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Categories:
uhuru, memory, travel,
Form: Shape
To Boldly Go
...My training at Starfleet was over, they were now deploying me
I was over the moon when they called; I was full of glee
I entered the transporter room where I'd dematerialize
And within seconds...
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Categories:
uhuru, science fiction, space,
Form: Rhyme
Hope For Uhuru At Dawn
...At the darkest hour of night
Before night shadows
Steal across the wall of darkness
Into the welcoming hands of dawn;
As with defecting soldiers
At Korea's demilitarized zone
With my spoke,
I ...
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Categories:
uhuru, africa, inspiration, peace,
Form: Prose Poetry
Uhuru
...UHURU
No one ever gets freedom on a platter of gold...
Without a fight, indoctrination may continue for
Another generation, convincing and bold..
Till a people fade with time, c...
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Categories:
uhuru, africa, art, freedom, poetry,
Form: Quatrain
The Africans of Old
...THE AFRICANS OF OLD.
The Africans of old
At night, slept and of Africa
For Africa they dreamt
Of a day to come
When Africans will be free
Uhuru Uhuru Uhuru
From every form of enslav...
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Categories:
uhuru, africa, allusion, black love,
Form: Didactic
Africana
...Africana, a poem that details the pre - colonial, colonial and post -colonial Africa, her rich history, struggles and unique cultural heritage in a picturesque execution.
Africa will Rise Up Ta...
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Categories:
uhuru, africa, black love, books,
Form: Prose Poetry
Memory
...Memory !
What a brainstorm your are
A translation of nature so beauteous than ever
An illustrated Cupid in my imaginations
With your arrows pointing to sweet bitter notion
You diffuse in a viral...
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Categories:
uhuru, leadership,
Form: Blank verse
Weeping Africa
...I hear Africa weeping
gnashing her teeth in cold
but custodians sit in glory
Cows mooing
bulls bellowing
trees whistling
wind blowing dust in eyes
land cracking and dusty
insects invading c...
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Categories:
uhuru, africa, cry, political,
Form: Free verse
From the Other Side
...it feels like recently
when you typed my name
our names
on a piece of paper
in our computer class that day
in Nairobi
it feels so close... learning ms word, ms excel etc
newbies t...
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Categories:
uhuru, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Africa Chants
...The beat of the jembe, a pulse of unity between embodiment and self.
The seeds of Ubuntu, our grandmothers sowed in murmured displays.
The grunt of a Kudu, an imprinted bellow of pride in the herd...
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Categories:
uhuru, addiction,
Form: Epic
Mama Nigeria
...Mama Nigeria
I was born not with a silver spoon, but gold and diamonds
I live in the midst of plenty and abundance-
Splashing about in a free flow of milk and honey;
I glory in an amazing empir...
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Categories:
uhuru, africa, patriotic, poems, poetry,
Form: Verse
Kangou
...I stood at the edge of exhaustion
quietly sipping my cup of palmwine
when I saw Sabri,
frazzled but unyielding in her soft scrubs,
our eyes locked for a brief moment
In her gaze were buckets of ...
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Categories:
uhuru, art, beauty, desire, destiny,
Form: Free verse
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