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Voyage

VOYAGE
we got to the shore
with a common goal to score
who sees us through the vast?
the lot was cast
it fell on  goat 
to paddle the boat afloat

never was such a story told
but who could be bold
to question the rat-arsed gods
whose empty heads are wisdom 
pods

yea the gods were too wise
never to have thought twice
to know a goat can't 
concentrate
when a bag of grain  is a 
boatmate
deep in the water's deep
all passengers left to weep
the grains. o the grain
got goat's sight drained

the water gave a wink
we were about to sink
anytime the water frowned
goat sat down for a human 
compatriot to drown

insane goat leading poor souls
towards a common goal
left some souls to perish
for mere maize to flourish

the journey. dreadful journey 
was to the island of honey
we started long ago
but not even a fourth way thro
to save maize is goat's aim
forgetting the reason why we 
came

we were deceived 
we were deceived
our fathers thought on seeing
the gods we've seen the 
Supreme Being
the Supreme Being never lies
He, the Almighty One never dies
the deceitful gods lie
the mortal gods die!

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Yellow Mango

Ripe mango. Succulent mango 
How bright your yellow glows
Sweet mango up on the tree  hang
How sweet you'd be on my tongue
I wish i were a monkey
I'd climb up and pluck thee
Lucky you, my dear mango 
that no wind blows 
and my breath can't do
what does the wind too
If my words could turn into stone
hurled at you, you'd be my own 
Man go O man go
Your name spells so
Never will  i heed that 
Your root shall be my mat
Untill a merciful wind ride
on the wing of time

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Black 'N' White

Black and white are
never of skin
but of coal and snow
the colours nature
distinct show 
which is pure and
which is sin?

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The Shape of the Star

THE SHAPE OF THE
STAR

....................I
                  am
                a
star
            You
might
see me twinkle
bright far
    in a cloudless
night
       with my
sisters
      servimg mother
      moon. 'n' the
sun
     is my         
   Sister
    too            
        am I
    	   not
beautiful?

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The Shape of Love

Love             has
     shape. The    shape of a
   heart which cares and feels
    the woe, sorrow, and pain 
     of lonely souls. Love has   
       two- curved apices and
          a pointed base that
              that never will 
                  hurt. See 
                    This I
                      did

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The Cross

.                 The cross of Christ
                  wasn't mere slabs
                  of wood nailed to
                   form an addition
but basket for carrying all stained robes
of the world into the
laundry of Mt Calvary
where he washed all clean by his sacred
blood........................his blameless blood
 	              light it really was
                     but made heavy
                     by the load of sin
                     taken upon it so
                      you and I can be
                      forever free
                      same cross             
                      Christians bear
       	     and in his pain
                                       share
                     ours also full
                      with pleasures of doom
that must be disposed of
into Christ's basket that never will be full

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Penitence

Father Father bless me
I bear a burden of sin
sin a heavy block of tin
pray God thee
I need break free
from the evil bondage
I've in been from early age

Father I'm the little mouse
a squatter in the mission house
My heart is full of mischief
I'm that wanted thief
who operates in the sacristy
Eating the communion pastry
and never the wine—none with 
you shares

But you waste time to punish
the innocent postulants
for this act deemed devilish
So implore God to graciously 
grant
my confessional wish

The postulants clean the 
chapel 
floor-pew-santuary clean
I cause the daily trouble
of spreading, litter, nuts and 
beans
on the holy floor
and yet you spark up your rage
on the postulants for act of 
sacrilege 

I surrender all
my iniquity
and and my ungodly duty
I surrender all
So plead God to reverse any 
curse
that must on my head befall

What reparation
or recitation must I do?
so I can go to the postulants to 
apologize
for stealing the communion 
wafer
and putting the chapel in scatter
for them to in your hands suffer
But should I tell them you 
drink the wine too?

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Oh Ghana

Our nation is very old
   the land of cocoa and gold
Here is found peace
   that never will cease

Great nation at birth foretold
    by the oracle of old
Half a century passed
    she's still at low class
Africa's hope she was meant to be
    but now what do we see?
Nkrumah's Ghana
     borrowing, begging for  manna
Aaaah! The beggar-borrower's bread
      is never sufficient, Granny said

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Our World

Our world is such a ludicrous stage  
artistes perform a pantomime
For blind folks comfortably seated 
Anxious to to have a good time 



Written on 27/08/2014
for Dr Ram Mehta's contest, Chastuska Me .

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Beauty, To Teresa Brewster

Beauty...to Teresa Brewster

I see you in the rising sun
In the glamour of it's setting
You wander with the lonely butterfly
sucking nectar from the open flowers in my heart's garden

I hear your voice 
In the sunbird's song
In the highlife tunes
My heart sings

I smell your presence
In my favorites food's aroma 
In the sweet scented herbs
In the first mass incense

Anything beautiful
Anything appealing
Anything pleasant
Rings out your name