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Poems

Valentine Mbagu Oct 2013
MOSQUE has 6 letters so
does CHURCH.

QURAN has 5 letters so
does BIBLE.

LIFE has 4 letters so does
DEAD.  

HATE has 4 letters so
does LOVE.

ENEMIES has 7 letters so
does FRIENDS.

LYING has 5 letters so
does TRUTH.

HURT has 4 letters so
does HEAL.

NEGATIVE has 8 letters so
does POSITIVE.

FAILURE has 7 letters so
does SUCCESS.

BELOW has 5 letters so does ABOVE.

CRY has 3 letters so does
JOY.

ANGER has 5 letters so
does HAPPY.

RIGHT has 5 letters so
does WRONG.

RICH has 4 letters so
does POOR.

FAIL has 4 letters so
does PASS.  

KNOWLEDGE has 9 letters
so does IGNORANCE.

Are they all by a
coincidence?

WE should choose wisely,
this means Life is like a double-
edged sword.

WE should always choose
the better side of Life.

Twitter:
@ValentineMbagu.
Every day you play with the light of the universe.
Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water,
You are more than this white head that I hold tightly
as a bunch of flowers, every day, between my hands.

You are like nobody since I love you.
Let me spread you out among yellow garlands.
Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.

Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window.
The sky is a net crammed with shadowy fish.
Here all the winds let go sooner or later, all of them.
The rain takes off her clothes.

The birds go by, fleeing.
The wind.  The wind.
I alone can contend against the power of men.
The storm whirls dark leaves
and turns loose all the boats that were moored last night to the sky.

You are here.  Oh, you do not run away.
You will answer me to the last cry.
Curl round me as though you were frightened.
Even so, a strange shadow once ran through your eyes.

Now, now too, little one, you bring me honeysuckle,
and even your ******* smell of it.
While the sad wind goes slaughtering butterflies
I love you, and my happiness bites the plum of your mouth.

How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me,
my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running.
So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes,
and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans.

My words rained over you, stroking you.
A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of your body.
Until I even believe that you own the universe.
I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses.
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.