How thoughtful were the rainfalls To water our gardens and flowers The flowers spread wide garments To celebrate their terminal beauty
The joyful frogs occupied my pond To orchestrate their vocal prowess They taught me to take blind leaps Like lightning bouncing in the skies
Squatted, stretched, beeped down I was a millstone on the pond floor My slippery pond mates wondered How soft I was in the maritime arts
Mortally rescued in a muddy mood The clouds sent in rescuing showers To confirm my firm loss to the frogs Like a grain of salt cast into the seas
673. MONEY BAGS IN THEIR BODY BAGS
The money bags shopping for their body bags Waggled through the makeshift supermarkets
Their ancestral homes they plotted modernity Like the general gathering fine forces together
To the villages they made to return with pride Like pregnant elephants caught up in the mud
Their desolate villages are deep and sickening Glowing flamingly in the crucibles of local gins
The dusty and gravy pathways are like furnace Burning the leather off from their frozen souls
Traditional birth attendants cut off their cords And zipped the money bags in their body bags
674. A GLORIOUS DAY
The new day spoke powerfully Like a war making superpower And his voice roared forcefully Like the skies forced to shower
The sunrays came dynamically Like love responding to silence Beauty crawled in submissively Like the mixed arts and science
One eagle soared energetically Like lions feuding in the colony Far clouds relocated peacefully Like souls betrayed to harmony
The breeze sighed thoughtfully Like horses galloping on the lea Inspiration unfolded thankfully Crowns monuments with a pea
675. THE FOG BANK
The sun had gone to pay our bill in the fog bank The world foggily crawled into the strong rooms Darkness demonstrated her strong mindfulness Provided for the strong gale with lurking shrieks
The black paint billers snowballed to our dreams With the bill of exchange for wild sunny excesses Ghostly bats emerged with the bill of indictment In demonstration of our acrophobic dispositions
We packaged the sunrays for our folk memories To reassure the day of our eternal followerships We cherish our follow-throughs in our dark beat To usher the sunlight out of the hollow fog bank
676. THE PROTRACTED INTERNECINE FEUD
These things had happened before we were born Like sulphur deep into our fresh hearts they burn Now we stumble on the bumpy terrains in horror Like one frightened by ghosts in a standing mirror
The internecine feud has razed our men of valour With their carcasses dumped in their cold parlour Our community cattle graze in the barren pasture Like the unrepentant sinners awaiting the rapture
For our plight the once glorious sky is grown pale Like the ***** fetching territorial waters with pail The storms have rolled off the catalogues for rain All our efforts to mop up the mess end up in vain
677. THE AREA LEADERS
They cracked coconuts on the heads for the crown And embraced our days with their castaway pollen Sadness and sorrow have dyed our garment brown With the strongest song sung when night has fallen
These are the blinding dusts from our barn’s grains They breed cunning serpents in the soft pasturages They are failed cargoes on our broad societal trains They dedicate our common committee to outrages
Now our days seek deliverance from their tentacles Like the colourful fields immersed in gloomy beauty They play our eyeballs with the stenciled spectacles With our consciences to sight and found us off duty
To rescue us the colossal clouds were born gadarene Our communal life was willed to pageants of gaieties Then moonlight stories held us for a larger gathering Now all the objects we sight dress up like cold deities
678. THE LAST DESCENDANTS
The rapacious thunderstorms ***** the skies for their tears The hot embers were born to glow mourning the late forest The moon crawled out of the blue like a great grandmother Cuddling her descendants wrapped up in her ancient shawls
The wild waves were weird weavers weaving withering wails The captioned wigs gyrated on stunning shoes upon auctions The little creatures crouched in primeval baskets of the night To gnaw at the generational tubers in the creative farmlands
The dazzling specimens of dentitions relaxed in water basins Like bright red artistic architectures on potent ocean boards Golden hearts glow in the threatening prisms of the furnace As beautiful sunset defines her beauties in her nightly corset
It had been a sweet pill for the past descendants to swallow Depending on the colonial masters for loaves, lore and lures Our creativity had been packaged in their mortal depravities Like the tranquil days resting sorrowfully upon the dark oars
The centenarian thunders downgraded our minute whispers We had been kept upon our toes by the eternally sworn foes At last our worthy artworks have worn their wormy catwalks The refreshed dawns greet our easting days in their greenery
679. VICTIMS IN THE VALLEY
The victims in the dark rally Caged, dried and browning Therein their meanings tally With waves born drowning
In the depth of a cold valley Horrible nobles are cultures Like pilgrims in the dark alley Willed to ravenous vultures
The victims all robed in tears With hearts like potter’s clay For pains they have no fears Only mimed games they play
For victory awaits the victims Alien to a blind mimed game Glorious are eternal rhythms For death Christ died to tame
680. THE GIANT SCARS
These are our giant threatening scars Engraved on our demonstrative heads Our sympathies crawled on superstars Weeping for us on their moonlit beds
They threatened us with nasal sounds Like thunderclouds seasoned to burst For us their galleries are out of bounds Behind the iron bars plagued with rust
Our patience passed their wildest tests Like the lions roaring in the thick jungle On the heart of the Lord our faith rests Like numbers posted on the right angle
681. A LADY
In a lady’s handbag Is her hidden hunchback Stuffed with her heart ache For the pains relieving groom
In a lady’s tender smile Is hidden miles of similitude Marked with the zebra crossings For the ever winning marathoner
In a tender lady’s heart Is hidden her cowboy’s hat Soaring within the white clouds To soothe the earth with the latter rains
682. BRING BACK OUR GIRLS
Bring back our homesick girls Their vacant cradles are bleeding Bring back our innocent girls On the chariots of fire descending
Bring back our suckling girls Their feeding bottles are weeping Bring back our infant girls Their mothers’ ******* are heavy
Bring back our harmless girls The united universe is thundering Bring back our dewy girls In the sharp sun rising in the skies
Bring back our beautiful girls Like light plucked from darkness Bring back our glorious girls Aboard the shore-bound waves
Bring back our worthy girls On their fresh faces our lights seek to glow Bring back our living girls Our fountains of joy are bubbling to burst
For our returned girls the skies shall bear Roaring rivers, singing seas, chiming clouds With gongs and songs, pianos and praises Dulcet dulcimers and documentable dances With healthy hymns and eloquent embraces All nations shall into a common cathedral flow
683. ****** GENEOLOGIES
They electrify their demonic high tables with old fears Only their ****** genealogies are bookmarked to reign The sight of their portables whetted our eyes to tears We are reinforced by the clouds born to the later rain
Our skins have renovated the sickening cattle wagons With our dreams flying upon huge smokes in the skies Beneath their tables we abridge their creaking jargons Upon their floors with our generational landmark tiles
The dew drops dropped like old crops upon our brows To soften the veils falling to the flaming edged swords The flaming hearted sword of the penetrating sunrays Born to pluck us alive from our hotly bandaged bruises
684. LET US SPEAK UP
The light is climbing downstairs And danger is sprouting abroad Our feet are listening for a word Let us speak up lest they go deaf
The light is melted on the glades And terror grazing our eyelashes Our feet are listening for a word Let us speak up lest they go deaf
The light is late and lately buried The mourners are on danger list Our feet are listening for a word Let us speak up lest they go deaf
The light has divorced the grave Her grave clothes are dew dyed Our feet are listening for a word Let us speak up lest they go deaf
Silence is a forgotten tombstone Lost in the din of cold morticians Our feet are listening for a word Let us speak up lest they go deaf
685. THE SUN
The sun smiles on all prescriptively Like the waves spreading on shores The green grass glows descriptively Like the full moon upon dark sores
The sun is a tailor fixing the buttons Preparing the sky for incoming stars Like the weaverbird weaving cottons To conceal the day’s damnable scars
The sun is a marker on diurnal pages Tall grace he bestows on the flowers The sun retains his graces for all ages Bees and butterflies are his followers
Our common laughter is endangered When sun bows down in big setbacks All mortals have the starlets fingered When the night comes on drawbacks
686. UNTIL HERE
(For Lou Lenart and his team)
Their floods came seeking Jewish bloods Like streams they roared for our dreams They emerged as columns of soldier ants Like whirlwinds they zoomed towards us
Until here we were crumbs for the reptiles Until here we were like airborne cloudlets But here the sudden change unveiled to us From here the elusive victory embraced us
With skeletal jets we fought like bold lions Soared like eagles and spoke like thunders We conquered columns of invading armies The bleeding armies turned back and blank
From here we turned from victims to victors From here enemies’ defeat our greatest feat Upon this memorable bridge it all happened Victories leapt upon our pool like joyful frogs
687. JOY UNLIMITED
The fledging sun offers its rays And the rays offer golden trays For our joy a platform to spray Rowdy paratroops like thunder To scoop roses from pure oasis
Our joy is ripe upon celebrations Our celebrations with decorations Decorations with documentations Documentations for all generations Generations in our joyful habitations
688. ANOTER RAINING DAY
The dark clouds are wandering river basins Spiral bounded by breakable outer casings The rivers and the seas display empty cups For the swift blessings descending the tops
The rains come as defense troops’ missiles And the drowning lands look like imbeciles Now we are groaning in the watered claws With the liberated scales marking our flaws
The retreating clouds crawl away in a belch Dumping the missing cargoes on the beach The winds bow in a state of shock in a cord Praying and fasting for a visit from the Lord
689. GRANDMOTHER
Grandmother, please wake and get up The sky is quarreling with her husband Soon they will spill their freezing sweat On our bodies for us to catch dead cold
Grandmother, please sneeze not louder The sky and her husband are quarreling Soon they will send old floods like gales To sweep mankind away from the world
Grandmother, you are everything I have My moon, my sun and my morning stars Provoke not the couples with your cough Lest they refill their greasily wraths again
Grandmother, the big reptiles have come With their lethal grandchildren following They are laced with secret burial shrouds With sympathetic tears tearing their eyes
Grandmother, I kiss you a shaky goodbye With broken pains roaring within my soul Grandmother, where are your groundnuts To conduct my solo heart as you sing away
690. A NIGHT WALK THROUGH THE FOREST
Lured away on an alluring dream by fables I trudged along the grassy paths with fears Upon my steps spilling the prevailing dews The shadows bowed their heads in silence Like the soul issued with a death sentence
The night crawlers emerged above boards Throwing light upon contrary communities In their hearts and eyes were painful tears Crawling down their exaggerated eye ***** Like a handbag filled with rotten cosmetics
The shadows were bold animators’ shelves Stage managing the horror motion pictures In the ghostly commodities I met wild hosts Lifeworks evaporated from my fresh breath Like foreign tragedies in common comedies
The sorrowful shadows cast away their veils Like the candles letting go of the weird wax Sadly I sat in the sack for conflicting fetuses Another sun appeared like a serial divorcee Counting the testicles of another naked day
691. SUBJECTIVE SUBJECTS
The sad sun descended upon her haunting melodies Reeling from mysterious layers for electoral riggings To harden the flowerbed for flower girls born tender Disenfranchised voters came weeping in barren polls Dressing the blank nest for the fat electoral parodies With the mourners the faulty bells they came ringing Like the angry water castigating a ****** port fender And the smokes climbed upon their wide aerial poles Arching over the emptied shelves with liberal singing They subjected their subjective subjects to all objects