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Best Poems Written by Gilbert Mapengo-Mwanguku

Below are the all-time best Gilbert Mapengo-Mwanguku poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Dear Papa

by Gilbert Mapengo Mwanguku

Why so soon Pa?
I thought you should have been patient
Without being a patient on the hospital bed
You could have waited for a little while
To see me grow the seeds you bestowed in me
And let them glow to the world all over
But you hurried in a twist of events
Making events twist events of the future
You left our souls torn asunder
As you surrendered to the black thunder under
Whether it meant to be a starter of new life somewhere
None of us knew how to renew your life here
Like a thorn deep in flesh it endlessly pains
They are now calling us cowards 
The award of your departure driving us backwards
Misery oozing out from these ruptured veins
You were a hero our pillow
In you we were relieved of our sorrows
We mourn you every morning
So as you eternally rest
Let there be peace in your nest

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Before I See You

By 
Gilbert 
Mapengo 
Mwanguku

I 
imprignate 
my 
mind 
with 
illusions
weighing 
the 
naked 
reality 
of 
imaginations
sipping 
sweet 
spirits 
into 
my 
veins
before 
I 
choke 
in 
this 
black 
smoke
before 
I 
throw 
my 
heart 
in 
a 
burning 
cage
before 
I 
unveil 
the 
true 
colours 
of 
a 
hungry 
lion
do 
not 
let 
me 
fall 
in 
abyss 
of 
stress
leave 
me 
with 
one 
precious 
word 
in 
my 
vocabulary
one 
word 
to 
sail 
me 
through,to 
the 
very 
end
one 
word 
indeed, 
LOVE

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Birthday Attributions

By GIRBERT MAPENGO MWANGUKU

Decades on the run
I still shine under the sun
A soldier so strong I stand 
Trying to be a hero in my homeland
Helping this celebration are mocking birds singing
As my ears get fed with jingle bells ringing

Grown up; ready to put on rings
But still worried about what tomorrow brings
Celebrating the day some wished I would die
With a big cake on the table about to cut a pie
Only one prayer of thanks to God for the life so precious
Hoping never to change to become a monster malicious

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Hopeless

BY GILBERT MAPENGO MWANGUKU

Beliefs turning out untrue
Cherishing memories of bygones 
Wishes of en-kindling back
The moments of time lost 
Which is my next stride?
Hopeless


Fighting for freedom we won
But still slaves of deeds of our own
Dreams masked and corrupted 
By the key that untied our chains
Where is the sweetness after all that sweat?
Hopeless

Mutant is the generation
The metamorphosis signals signs of time 
Where man can marry man and mate
While incest news can be a dairy update
Is there a future for the unborn soul?
Hopeless

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The Cracked Pillar

By  Gilbert Mapengo Mwanguku


Unable to stand the horrendous cacophony
that comes with the holly typhoons from the west
A dwindling struggle for life with a riffle 
while the edges smuggle maggots and goats

Red eye is the destined transition
yet blue is the nature of the pupil 
yellow drops pour endlessly

The pillar is pregnant again
Now with triplets like pets
Melancholy, foray and agony

Tied up in a wagon of bygones 
trying to define a smile in times of a calamity
glory written on the faces of ants
they have found a home
yet in the other dark  crack is a rat
worried about the impending fate
in case the pillar is pronounced late

Then the earth sonorously quakes
the wheels of wind roll
like the rapid blood flow from the gallows
Darkest clouds in rage converge 
In the background pounding ambiances heard
Sober minds and sombre moods pass the time

Thunder cracks, and the pillar is down kissing mother earth

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Soliloquy

by Gibert Mapengo Mwanguku

Lost in the desert like the acient 
Hebrews of Israel 
The blood clot system try to kill 
me internally
I dig the truth and burry my 
pride eternally
Like a sickle celled body I am 
pale 
but I survived to fight another 
day cocooned in a coma 
I can still hear my mother pray 
Murmuring and mumbling words 
of hope 
a sister crying out to gods please 
let my brother live 
Walking towards light but 
something pulling me the opposite

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Tears of Love

By      Gilbert Mapengo Mwanguku

Hey! My ebony princess
The destiny of my heart
The path of my flowing passion of love
 Engulfed in flames of hope
I felt tall like sapitwa
But I was just a little bird
Flapping my wings at a highest point above
You sang I danced
Lyrics with patches and scratches
Oh yes! I was blind
Letting you prey and play in my circles
But I would be a fool to fool you
I blame my arrogance and ignorance
For trying to hatch eggs I did not lay
My love left dangling
With agape souls of desire
Reminiscing your fatal smiles, the first impression
As I shed these tears of love

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Longing For You

BY   GILBERT MAPENGO MWANGUKU

Desperate and destitute 
Far from your heart
Though I can feel it 
Beating and bleeding love 
Like water from a broken pipe
Laid underneath
Indeed great in need
As we cope up with times
The long distance killing harder
Emotions overflowing 
Romances pending
Longing and highly anticipating 
For the day we bond

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The Jupiter Dwellers

By GILBERT MAPENGO MWANGUKU

Rotten and forgotten
Mealing once a day
As if they are on a fasting session 
Jam-packed as they sleep
Like maggots in a filled latrine

Stinky is their world
Can’t even remember their toilet pose
As the bucket on the corner waits
Ticks host a party on them
No where to escape indeed

In white as they handle the donkeys job
Making one believe they are angels
Scars cover up their bodies
Addled with the most miserable pain
Invoked on their mare skins
By the so-called caretakers 

Masked with only one hope
Better days are yet to come
As they testify the hell on earth
The place called a reformatory 
Is now meant to be a deathtrap

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Let It Go

B y Gilbert Mapengo Mwanguku

Let the river flow 
And wash away the memory lane
For if you go with it to the future
You will end up stuck in regret

Dreams are dreams
But with hope dreams are visions
And failure becomes a source of knowledge
When you can’t figure out light in a mist of darkness

Let it go, let it go
Deduce the pain and relieve your soul
Let it fly away a million miles
And let a deep sigh bring you again smiles