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"ethiopian" poems
She’s got scars on her legs, calls them battle wounds, I’ve got the music up way to loud, so loud we can’t hear our thoughts, city lights provide the background, as we lose control and make love, doing anything to feel anything, because it’s 2018 and it feels like no one gives a fck, so we fck, and after it's said and done she says, “I don’t usually do this.”, yeah well we often do things we don’t usually do, no road home and no rules, no control no lines no tolls, keep knocking and you can come in, but no one’s home, what’s going on up there, how can you be so terrifyingly beautiful, why are you armed with such a stare, I know you’re a weapon but what do you use it for, armed to the teeth no bark all bite, I say she’s a unicorn she says she’s a vampire, and I don’t fall in love but with this one I just might, because we better express ourselves before we expire, got burned from her fire, but it hurt so good, like those cuts that we inflicted onto each other, feeling erratic I guess blame it on the mood, always ready to talk about anything except the truth, she says she only lied to me once, and that was about not liking Ethiopian food, and I pretend to care but honestly don’t know if I give a fck, what the fck, I’m drunk, and I don’t usually drink, but I often do things I don’t usually do, and I don’t mean to be rude, but I’m not sure I love you, because even if I did, I’m not sure it’d matter to you so what’s the use, you want the truth, the truth is we’re born alone and we die alone, and in the middle is where I found you, and for a moment this runaway thought he'd found a home, and I wanted us to stay forever in that moment, laying there naked in each other’s arms, but you were insecure and covered yourself back up, because you didn’t want me to see your scars, you’ve got scars on her legs, calls them battle wounds, I’ve got the music up way to loud, so loud we can’t hear our thoughts, city lights provide the background, as we lose control and make love, doing anything to feel anything, because it’s 2018 and it feels like no one gives a fck... ∆ LaLux ∆ Melbourne, Australia October 2018
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Oct 19, 2018
Oct 19, 2018 at 10:10 AM UTC
Battle Wounds
She’s got scars on her legs, calls them battle wounds, I’ve got the music up way to loud, so loud we can’t hear our thoughts, city lights provide the background, as we lose control and make love, doing anything to feel anything, because it’s 2018 and it feels like no one gives a fck, so we fck, and after it's said and done she says, “I don’t usually do this.”, yeah well we often do things we don’t usually do, no road home and no rules, no control no lines no tolls, keep knocking and you can come in, but no one’s home, what’s going on up there, how can you be so terrifyingly beautiful, why are you armed with such a stare, I know you’re a weapon but what do you use it for, armed to the teeth no bark all bite, I say she’s a unicorn she says she’s a vampire, and I don’t fall in love but with this one I just might, because we better express ourselves before we expire, got burned from her fire, but it hurt so good, like those cuts that we inflicted onto each other, feeling erratic I guess blame it on the mood, always ready to talk about anything except the truth, she says she only lied to me once, and that was about not liking Ethiopian food, and I pretend to care but honestly don’t know if I give a fck, what the fck, I’m drunk, and I don’t usually drink, but I often do things I don’t usually do, and I don’t mean to be rude, but I’m not sure I love you, because even if I did, I’m not sure it’d matter to you so what’s the use, you want the truth, the truth is we’re born alone and we die alone, and in the middle is where I found you, and for a moment this runaway thought he'd found a home, and I wanted us to stay forever in that moment, laying there naked in each other’s arms, but you were insecure and covered yourself back up, because you didn’t want me to see your scars, you’ve got scars on her legs, calls them battle wounds, I’ve got the music up way to loud, so loud we can’t hear our thoughts, city lights provide the background, as we lose control and make love, doing anything to feel anything, because it’s 2018 and it feels like no one gives a fck... ∆ LaLux ∆ Melbourne, Australia October 2018
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My Bipolar Disorder is a stout-bodied mammal with horns and cloven hooves. There are two types of My Bipolar Disorder: Domestic, and Mountain. My Bipolar disorder typically spends its days grazing on grasses My Bipolar Disorder will dig depressions in the ground to sleep, rest, and bathe in. My Bipolar disorder is super social during the winter, and tends to go solo during the summer. My Bipolar Disorders tail usually points up! (Unless it is frightened or sick) My Bipolar Disorder is extremely Curious and Intelligent. Once My bipolar disorder has discovered a weakness in its fence, it will exploit it repeatedly. There are over 300 distinct breeds of My Bipolar Disorder. Within' minutes of being born, my Bipolar Disorder is up and walking around. My bipolar disorder used to live in the white house with Abraham Lincoln. One day an ethiopian Herder walked in on My Bipolar Disorder liteally bouncing off of cliff walls because it just Discovered Coffee. My Bipolar Disorder has four stomachs The horns of My Bipolar Disorder are typically removed to reduce injury to humans. My Bipolar disorder will explore anything new or unfamiliar in its surroundings, mainly with its mouth and tongue. My bipolar disorder readily reverts to the wild if given the opportunity. My Bipolar Disorder is more susceptible to Parasites and other infectious diseases when it is mismanaged. My bipolar disorder has had a lingering connection with Satanism and pagan religions My Bipolar Disorder is considered a "clean" animal by jewish dietary laws. According to Zeus As long as you leave it's bones whole, My Bipolar disorder will keep coming back to life.
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May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016 at 1:19 PM UTC
My Bipolar Disorder
My Bipolar Disorder is a stout-bodied mammal with horns and cloven hooves. There are two types of My Bipolar Disorder: Domestic, and Mountain. My Bipolar disorder typically spends its days grazing on grasses My Bipolar Disorder will dig depressions in the ground to sleep, rest, and bathe in. My Bipolar disorder is super social during the winter, and tends to go solo during the summer. My Bipolar Disorders tail usually points up! (Unless it is frightened or sick) My Bipolar Disorder is extremely Curious and Intelligent. Once My bipolar disorder has discovered a weakness in its fence, it will exploit it repeatedly. There are over 300 distinct breeds of My Bipolar Disorder. Within' minutes of being born, my Bipolar Disorder is up and walking around. My bipolar disorder used to live in the white house with Abraham Lincoln. One day an ethiopian Herder walked in on My Bipolar Disorder liteally bouncing off of cliff walls because it just Discovered Coffee. My Bipolar Disorder has four stomachs The horns of My Bipolar Disorder are typically removed to reduce injury to humans. My Bipolar disorder will explore anything new or unfamiliar in its surroundings, mainly with its mouth and tongue. My bipolar disorder readily reverts to the wild if given the opportunity. My Bipolar Disorder is more susceptible to Parasites and other infectious diseases when it is mismanaged. My bipolar disorder has had a lingering connection with Satanism and pagan religions My Bipolar Disorder is considered a "clean" animal by jewish dietary laws. According to Zeus As long as you leave it's bones whole, My Bipolar disorder will keep coming back to life.
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MELANIN BEAUTY She was adorable in her coffee tinted skin Her beauty as rare as the clustering of dragonflies Amazing to look upon like the gathering of butterflies Through her eyes stars felt closer than ever Her lips was as beautiful as the opening of petals My heart paused when our eyes came in contact I felt like i have seen the queen of all that is beautiful The envy of every woman there is to be She was thin tall and adorned in elegance Endowed with charisma of an Ethiopian princess Her smile was first born Her beauty always suffocated the crowd   All i could see was the wonder of her skin I have fallen under the spell of this black queen She was a fragile treasure, the elixir of beauty She sparkled like she was kissed by the morning sun She was never satisfied with her perfection Trying to fix what GOD has personally certified Denting you to wear a skin that isn’t yours Like sharp sand i watched her beauty sink rapidly She was deep rooted in self-doubt of her skin pigment Not knowing the magnificence of her existence She never knew she was a gush of glamour Glorious to behold and graced with melanin Gradually she became high on inferiority complex She became lost in a world she was created to own Your beautiful brown body is a work of art Dipped in black gold and coated with brown sugar You define an indestructible uniqueness Your black skin is a badge of superiority Black is magical and above comparison Black complexion is the new religion .
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Nov 1, 2017
Nov 1, 2017 at 10:18 PM UTC
MELANIN BEAUTY
As mother nature's Punitive measure Against a society In maintaining The statuesque That doesn't bother, Our rivers Had become subject To a water thirst, To the extent Of projecting Rocky ribs Terrifyingly protruded out For easy count! But now thanks to The all-out, terrace making And reafforestation effort Of each catchment Farmers have made a point And also  to the afforestation Move of the government Rivers aside from quenching Their insatiable thirst Have resumed To brim over With floods Drinking water To their hearts' content. Our forests once stripped of Their wooded cover Have started, fast, to recover From afar they are seen Robed eye-catching green From a fry-pan sky Allowing a shelter Also busy Carbon to sequester. Wild animals That migrated Have preferred Back their way to find. Now farmers don't have Deep to dig To sink a water well Or find a nearby spring. Birds are heard chirruping Be it winter, summer or spring, While Brooks bubbling. Buzzing and hovering From this to that flower Bees are producing Organic honey by the hour. Promising a bumper harvest Farmer's plots have Fortunately continued To resuscitate! Those leaving Their denuded abode behind Away, who preferred To stay 'We will return back home soon! ' Is what They  say. Happily enough Mother nature Affords us a second chance Imbued with Environment stewardship If  we are willing to mend Our wrong 'Feast today famine tomorrow! ' stance. To dispel the spectre Of climate change And systematically face The global challenge True to the adage 'We have either to swim together or sink together! ' Hence in fighting the challenge Or adapting to the change Back scratching, We have to be on the same page. Indeed, irrigation must Not slip our mind For erratic rainfall A  lasting solution If we must find.// Once a famous Ethiopian Poet  Pro.Debebe Seifu Who had passed away had  penned down a picturesque poem lamenting the land degradation, deforestation and change of climate the country was suffering.The bad scenario seemed unrecoverable.Now a days Ethiopia is reversing that sad episode.I have therefore to write a poem on this #change   #trees   #erosion   #climate   #deforestation   #enviroment   #degeradation   #desertification
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Sep 28, 2015
Sep 28, 2015 at 4:22 AM UTC
Fortunately it resuscitates
As mother nature's Punitive measure Against a society In maintaining The statuesque That doesn't bother, Our rivers Had become subject To a water thirst, To the extent Of projecting Rocky ribs Terrifyingly protruded out For easy count! But now thanks to The all-out, terrace making And reafforestation effort Of each catchment Farmers have made a point And also  to the afforestation Move of the government Rivers aside from quenching Their insatiable thirst Have resumed To brim over With floods Drinking water To their hearts' content. Our forests once stripped of Their wooded cover Have started, fast, to recover From afar they are seen Robed eye-catching green From a fry-pan sky Allowing a shelter Also busy Carbon to sequester. Wild animals That migrated Have preferred Back their way to find. Now farmers don't have Deep to dig To sink a water well Or find a nearby spring. Birds are heard chirruping Be it winter, summer or spring, While Brooks bubbling. Buzzing and hovering From this to that flower Bees are producing Organic honey by the hour. Promising a bumper harvest Farmer's plots have Fortunately continued To resuscitate! Those leaving Their denuded abode behind Away, who preferred To stay 'We will return back home soon! ' Is what They  say. Happily enough Mother nature Affords us a second chance Imbued with Environment stewardship If  we are willing to mend Our wrong 'Feast today famine tomorrow! ' stance. To dispel the spectre Of climate change And systematically face The global challenge True to the adage 'We have either to swim together or sink together! ' Hence in fighting the challenge Or adapting to the change Back scratching, We have to be on the same page. Indeed, irrigation must Not slip our mind For erratic rainfall A  lasting solution If we must find.// Once a famous Ethiopian Poet  Pro.Debebe Seifu Who had passed away had  penned down a picturesque poem lamenting the land degradation, deforestation and change of climate the country was suffering.The bad scenario seemed unrecoverable.Now a days Ethiopia is reversing that sad episode.I have therefore to write a poem on this #change   #trees   #erosion   #climate   #deforestation   #enviroment   #degeradation   #desertification
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Derartu, Haile, Tirunesh Kenenisa, Meseret, and all With a similar footfall! Displaying a superb Long-distance athletic feat When many superstars Awe inspiringly you beat And as a result of it When your sought-for Fought-for And nation- prayed-for Dream proves a hit And also with kudos A stadium full of people opt You to greet And when spectators Accord you a high five It is for your country's  flag You  immediately dive! Also on the podium while Ethiopia's row-wise Green,Yellow and Red Emblazoned flag, Shoulder high, Soars above You express Your  umbilical cord-tight National love With tears that Trickle down each of Your cheek,quick. Is it because Reminiscent of Each living hero With a life sacrifice That brought colonial Aggression to zero? Is it because The bounty of the land You grew up Seeing first hand? Is it because The cherished corner You cut in the heart of The poor but prideful Ethiopian neighbour? Is it because The unity in diversity That showcases Ethiopia's identity Or citizens hospitality? Is it because At heart strings a tug Or ,among others Gratefulness to Your iron-strong lung When you hear Ethiopian anthem sung? Is it because a secret another Deep down you harbour? Is it because the Fertility Hope and Sovereignty ideals The flag advance, Also Ethiopia's being A beacon of independence What is more The nation's renaissance Which in a curtain of mist Before your eyes dance?
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Oct 12, 2015
Oct 12, 2015 at 5:02 AM UTC
An overriding national feeling
Welcome,welcome White dove The hatred wall That estranged cousins Have begun to fall When love Incarnated in white dove Started to fly high Over Ethiopian- Eritrean sky. Welcome,welcome White dove You are an antidote Border dispute to solve. Welcome,welcome White dove Ethiopia's  port problem Eritrea's financial-return Challenges You are sure to dissolve. Welcome,welcome White dove Tourism and trade Must spur ahead. So to wipe out Dislike's filth Let us put a glove. Welcome,welcome White dove To make up for Lost resources and chances Also the two cousins From dislike to absolve.//
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 2:45 AM UTC
Welcome white dove
I wish you could see what I see here. Smell the beautiful stench of sewage and un-showered people. Feel the African wind fly through your hair, bringing with it a mouthful of dirt. Pick dry black boogers from your nose, and bits of dirt and grime from your eyelashes. Clean your teeth of the ram you watched them **** last night, just before you ate it. I wish you could feel the Ethiopian sun on your bare arms, licking dry lips because you ran out of clean water to drink. See millions of curious brown eyes as you fly down dirt roads in a squeaky dust-covered van. Watch the African sun rise upon a city of stories, stories which walk the streets every day without fail. I wish you could be here and experience this. I wish I could bring you here. One day.
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Oct 2, 2014
Oct 2, 2014 at 8:33 AM UTC
ethiopia
Germans, love to be funny German-English, love to be friends Trinis, love to work hard English, love to talk loud Bajan, love to travel Hmong-Americans, love to look classy Korean-English, love to hangout Koreans, look good in "gangsta" Tobagonians, love to give gifts Americans, love fresh vegetables Chinese-Americans, love butter biscuits Canadians, don't know that one guy Kenyans, love Ethiopian food Guineans, are the best Arabic teachers Jordanians, love Kentucky Fried chicken Brazilians, love Trinidad Brazilian-Americans, have 5 kids Puerto Ricans, love Ecuadorians Ecuadorians, love Puerto Ricans Peruvian-Americans, love concert piano
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Aug 2, 2016
Aug 2, 2016 at 12:25 PM UTC
friends without borders
have you guys ever been to großburgwedel? it's in germany i am there right now to have my right leg examined sure: it's raining the sky is grey and all that well well but one thing i am certain of: i wouldn't come here again except i want to gain certainty i have nothing against the people from großburgwedel i simply don't want to live in grey lands: grey faces grey voices and many right-winged persons I LOVE COLORS I LOVE THE GERMAN AND THE ETHIOPIAN FLAG I LOVE MY BI-RACIAL FAMILY
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Dec 9, 2019
Dec 9, 2019 at 7:26 AM UTC
Grey Lands
Suspected of attack On fascist Graziani He was in house arrest As the case was with Suspects the rest. A prisoner of war Then  via Somalia He was sent to Rome Found a black lion If left at home. Together with A prison inmate From Yugoslavia Called Julio He made a rope Out of a blanket The reason To descend down And escape From a tower prison. In a show of contempt Defying  officials' attempt To smoke out a fugitive On the hide The two at eventide Returned to open fire And attack guards To set  free prisoners Indeed, victory was On their side. Leading partisans Abdissa made it his duty To gruel fascists With insurgent activity. What was the outcome? Parallel to the allied forces When he entered Rome With Ethiopia's tricolor Around his wrist He was accorded A warm welcome. Then he turned his face To allied-forces'- 'For Berlin' race In rooting out **** troops He spurred the pace! Asked to stay in Europe He said shalom "Home sweet home! As written on the bible Can an Ethiopian change His skin or a leopard its spots? Doing so Will it not be a sin?" The unsung hero Returned to Addis Turning Fascist and Nazis' Wild dreams to zero!
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Sep 11, 2020
Sep 11, 2020 at 11:53 PM UTC
The saga of Abdissa Aga
He stood on the grassland of Ledi Geraru. The sky was a vast expanse of melancholic gray and the crimson blue light made the night imminent. Each twilight his feet felt the kiss of the dewy shrub as he waited for the first star to come out that in a hushed sweep descended as peace. He would raise his finger to the sky and upon the river of his eyes the star broke into fragments of tears. He was slowly dying but a greater him was to tread the grassland. His eyes weren't found. Only his jaws still stuck with the beauty were dug up from the stardust.
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Aug 10, 2016
Aug 10, 2016 at 11:52 AM UTC
The Ethiopian Man
We wait at the same stop. It's pouring, and we join the huddle of people Keeping dry under the cold metal. I expect her to get on one of the Arab bus lines, Because she's an Arab. That was racist and I smile to myself when She gets on the 74 with me. We end up jammed in the middle, standing face to face In a sea of human waves, getting on, off, hustling. There is an Ethiopian lady next to us with a baby strapped to her back. I think the girl is wistful. I wonder if she's wondering about her future, like me. Her makeup is better done than mine is and she looks sad. I wonder what secrets lie beneath her elegantly obscured body. I remember when I was Orthodox- we were parallel lines. I sneak a look at her hijab. I wonder if she looks at my hair. I notice two rings, a diamond and a gold, on her left hand. She follows my gaze, twitches her fingers nervously and moves her hand. I wonder how he treats her. Is she afraid of him? Is she sad? She looks sad. I want to ask her what's wrong. Does she speak Hebrew? Maybe. Probably not. Maybe. I want to at least meet her eyes and smile, So she knows someone noticed, But my eyes flit and dart away every time I try, And all I can see is the hate that's been wedged between us since the 20's. She can't be much older than me, I think as she takes out an Iphone In a bright pink case, a twin to the one I'd checked in its turquoise case About 30 seconds ago. We get off at the same stop. She waits for a transfer and I start walking to school. I will never see her again, but I hope that maybe our future daughters Will be able to smile at each other on a crowded bus, and maybe even be friends.
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Jan 31, 2013
Jan 31, 2013 at 2:54 AM UTC
The Girl on the Bus
We wait at the same stop. It's pouring, and we join the huddle of people Keeping dry under the cold metal. I expect her to get on one of the Arab bus lines, Because she's an Arab. That was racist and I smile to myself when She gets on the 74 with me. We end up jammed in the middle, standing face to face In a sea of human waves, getting on, off, hustling. There is an Ethiopian lady next to us with a baby strapped to her back. I think the girl is wistful. I wonder if she's wondering about her future, like me. Her makeup is better done than mine is and she looks sad. I wonder what secrets lie beneath her elegantly obscured body. I remember when I was Orthodox- we were parallel lines. I sneak a look at her hijab. I wonder if she looks at my hair. I notice two rings, a diamond and a gold, on her left hand. She follows my gaze, twitches her fingers nervously and moves her hand. I wonder how he treats her. Is she afraid of him? Is she sad? She looks sad. I want to ask her what's wrong. Does she speak Hebrew? Maybe. Probably not. Maybe. I want to at least meet her eyes and smile, So she knows someone noticed, But my eyes flit and dart away every time I try, And all I can see is the hate that's been wedged between us since the 20's. She can't be much older than me, I think as she takes out an Iphone In a bright pink case, a twin to the one I'd checked in its turquoise case About 30 seconds ago. We get off at the same stop. She waits for a transfer and I start walking to school. I will never see her again, but I hope that maybe our future daughters Will be able to smile at each other on a crowded bus, and maybe even be friends.
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I am not Wakandian. I wish I could look at a map and say there that’s where my people came from. Save money, board a plane, fly to my ancestral home, and see what made me. But Africa is a big place and I’m not Kenyan, Nigerian or Ethiopian. I have no claims to their past and no right to their future. All I know is I have some melanin, ***** hair, and the knowledge that my ancestors blood and bones set the foundation for a nation that hasn’t made its mind up about me. So sometimes I wonder what if my ancestors had survived sugar fields instead of cotton. Faced whips on the islands, instead of the south. Would I then feel at home because I could look and know. Or would that leave me emptier since here is still not there and a claim to there would make me less here. I guess until I figure this out I’ll take a made-up country to be my made-up heritage I am Wakandian
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Feb 28, 2018
Feb 28, 2018 at 10:26 PM UTC
Home
Im home alone again,that's fine Drinking Ethiopian wine Wishing you were here with me A you that wished to be with thee you without any troubles Me with my unsightly fumbles Is it the wine that keeps us apart? Is that the line which separates ones heart? I  lit a cigarette just now Wonderring if my words are foul Are they of a dream come true? Or might they just  be of you ? A you that may not exsist To which I am constantly betwixt Who are you? And will I ever know This love of mine That fails to show
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Apr 6, 2014
Apr 6, 2014 at 12:33 AM UTC
Ethiopian wine
this girl I know who always wears summer dresses and a smile lent me a book on awareness but wants it back before she goes to work in a conflict zone for the red cross in september she travelled in a big red bus to a surfers festival in donegal where she worked in the big red bus café on her breaks she surfed smoked loads of **** listened to reggae and ate falafel last Wednesday she received a back payment from the social welfare and felt guilty about it so she donated half of it to charity bought donkeys for three Ethiopian families spent a small fortune on ingredients for a friends dinner and paid for my vegetable soup she stopped at a chocolatier to buy one solitary chocolate and then ate it hurriedly while she chatted to a circus guy she knew about a party she had missed when she was on the big red bus while skimming through books in the spirituality section wearing her summer dress and a smile she said she felt sick from having eaten the chocolate too quickly and was sad that she hadn’t taken the time to enjoy it today the red cross sent her for a chest x-ray
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Mar 16, 2013
Mar 16, 2013 at 11:14 AM UTC
today the red cross sent her for a chest x-ray
It's Sunday again for you cloistered patricians aloof from the madness, the magic and myth; who trust in your wisdom, investments, physicians unready to answer forthwith: "Why bother with worship—in church or the zoo— why weaken the links with a dull set of tools ?" you ask yourself over your high-end Tarrazu, bemused at the fables of fools. You've bartered salvation for New York Times articles, sipping on bitterness (shade-grown organic). You settle for molecules, atoms and particles unfairly-traded, satanic— while you celebrate emptiness, general futility musing on nothingness, sure of specifics ensconced in your kitchen of pampered gentility flirting with atheist physics. Those simple plebeians:  you'd love to enlighten them help them, like you, to become a free-thinker but you remain tasteful, for boldness might frighten them reeling in fairy tales: hook, line and sinker. Yet somebody, somewhere has uttered your sentence (though you abhor judgement, let's read it again). Sheba and Nineveh, versed in repentance await you—not whether but when. The darkness is brewing unholy filtration; the wine of the harlot approaches the rim; your guilt is augmenting in slow percolation; you shrug it all off on a whim. The souls of Assyria rise from your paper they watch in amazement, prepare your abyss. Your coffee now brims a more sulfurous vapor; oh sinner—there's something amiss: The crypts of Marib and the tombs of the Axumites shudder and groan while you're reading the Times... (immune to the words that some Christarded  poet writes mixing psychosis with rhymes.) Royal Sheba will chastise your erudite unbelief, smug self-importance and cynical squawk. Then she'll sigh with immense Ethiopian grief and her Highness Queen Bilqis will talk. It is Sunday in Babylon.  What if your sunlight ends... why are there mobs in the streets of the nation? Shall you have breakfast—or calculate dividends... what would you pay for salvation?
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Mar 25, 2016
Mar 25, 2016 at 10:30 AM UTC
Weakly Devotional
It's Sunday again for you cloistered patricians aloof from the madness, the magic and myth; who trust in your wisdom, investments, physicians unready to answer forthwith: "Why bother with worship—in church or the zoo— why weaken the links with a dull set of tools ?" you ask yourself over your high-end Tarrazu, bemused at the fables of fools. You've bartered salvation for New York Times articles, sipping on bitterness (shade-grown organic). You settle for molecules, atoms and particles unfairly-traded, satanic— while you celebrate emptiness, general futility musing on nothingness, sure of specifics ensconced in your kitchen of pampered gentility flirting with atheist physics. Those simple plebeians:  you'd love to enlighten them help them, like you, to become a free-thinker but you remain tasteful, for boldness might frighten them reeling in fairy tales: hook, line and sinker. Yet somebody, somewhere has uttered your sentence (though you abhor judgement, let's read it again). Sheba and Nineveh, versed in repentance await you—not whether but when. The darkness is brewing unholy filtration; the wine of the harlot approaches the rim; your guilt is augmenting in slow percolation; you shrug it all off on a whim. The souls of Assyria rise from your paper they watch in amazement, prepare your abyss. Your coffee now brims a more sulfurous vapor; oh sinner—there's something amiss: The crypts of Marib and the tombs of the Axumites shudder and groan while you're reading the Times... (immune to the words that some Christarded  poet writes mixing psychosis with rhymes.) Royal Sheba will chastise your erudite unbelief, smug self-importance and cynical squawk. Then she'll sigh with immense Ethiopian grief and her Highness Queen Bilqis will talk. It is Sunday in Babylon.  What if your sunlight ends... why are there mobs in the streets of the nation? Shall you have breakfast—or calculate dividends... what would you pay for salvation?
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#ክብረ ነገሥት *Oh Sovereign of wisdom Solomonic, forgive us. The wicked wax demonic. Golden vessels fill with foulness man is bankrupt, sold and soulless Unsettling harbingers loom dystopian. Sheba rises in dreams Ethiopian.* Tested with questions, her spirit once gone, occultic suggestions postponed her dawn. (Six-hundred and sixty-six talents of gold paid Nineveh’s rise as Messiah foretold. Go read it in Matthew, obstinate sinner You think He intends to have Satan the winner?) Her ruins now surveyed by satellite beheld on the screens of the Canaanite: canals to expose, southern deserts to cross, Eritrean legends of Prophet (and loss), the Ark of King Menelik—Kebra Negast, treasures of darkness presented, now past have us checking those texts that worldlings despise as we wait under dread Luciferian skies. Break the sixth seal of the seventh scroll; let the thirteenth angel spill the bowl ! (or smoke it up in the courts of Heaven till ganja’s infinitude totals seven…) Exhume Axum with the ****** of Marib. decode the encryption on Adam’s rib unearthed from some Antediluvian ravine— Blast from the past: she explodes on our scene! Seven oaths shall be sworn on her spectral beauty (our Biblical transcendental duty). The libation is mixed. Are we ready to swill it? Beersheba? She brew ! Let us rise to fulfill it. from sita to Saba fifth columns are ready: Oh Sovereign — render their pillars unsteady. For after explosions there’s mess to clean up, and it’s worse than the horrors inside of her cup.
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Apr 27, 2016
Apr 27, 2016 at 9:47 AM UTC
Sabean Inscription
#ክብረ ነገሥት *Oh Sovereign of wisdom Solomonic, forgive us. The wicked wax demonic. Golden vessels fill with foulness man is bankrupt, sold and soulless Unsettling harbingers loom dystopian. Sheba rises in dreams Ethiopian.* Tested with questions, her spirit once gone, occultic suggestions postponed her dawn. (Six-hundred and sixty-six talents of gold paid Nineveh’s rise as Messiah foretold. Go read it in Matthew, obstinate sinner You think He intends to have Satan the winner?) Her ruins now surveyed by satellite beheld on the screens of the Canaanite: canals to expose, southern deserts to cross, Eritrean legends of Prophet (and loss), the Ark of King Menelik—Kebra Negast, treasures of darkness presented, now past have us checking those texts that worldlings despise as we wait under dread Luciferian skies. Break the sixth seal of the seventh scroll; let the thirteenth angel spill the bowl ! (or smoke it up in the courts of Heaven till ganja’s infinitude totals seven…) Exhume Axum with the ****** of Marib. decode the encryption on Adam’s rib unearthed from some Antediluvian ravine— Blast from the past: she explodes on our scene! Seven oaths shall be sworn on her spectral beauty (our Biblical transcendental duty). The libation is mixed. Are we ready to swill it? Beersheba? She brew ! Let us rise to fulfill it. from sita to Saba fifth columns are ready: Oh Sovereign — render their pillars unsteady. For after explosions there’s mess to clean up, and it’s worse than the horrors inside of her cup.
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茶 Cruciform character;  flowering daughter of orient Wisdom’s delight A hymn to thee, beloved bush and Tree of Life, I raise. May thy plucked leaves forevermore renew their gracious budding Even as thy captured progeny produce, in death, thy praise Like captive Hebrew exiles driven far from Zion’s hill Loving still their Judge and punisher, recalling golden days… In this cup of glorious elixir, infusing life with cheer Asia’s attributes unveil, while I upon her marvels gaze. Serenity enfolding, I forget all those before In a rapturous caress I swiftly yield to her embraces Nevermore to recall the ****** bean of Abyssinian lore Ethiopian witch and desert hag, dark seed of nomadic races! Now I hail the truth, whose leaf I love: L’chaim to the brew I adore So sit with me and sip some cha. Let us kiss her myriad faces. I scribe these lines in gratitude to that plant who soothes and inspires Sweet Camellia, my love…  I read in the leaves                                 your ascending triumphant traces.
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 10:11 PM UTC
Chá
Surprisingly the dusted air does not bring a gritty mouth? It seeps sandy, into the recesses of skyscrapers, gives bright blue pools a poxy composure. Its probably why the buildings aren't white but not why my teeth aren't It's accompanied by muted roars, a cacophony of humanity in the near and far. Indians eating Ethiopian, Pakistanis driving Chinese cars, Arabs shopping at Bloomingdales, Filipinos Filipinoing. A city that embodies the glittering gold of empty flats and abandoned offices, the cushion covered loungers and the overwhelming urge to jump from the 26th floor balcony. A squinted eye admires the Burjes. A shielded glance is spared for the Mosques. Their brilliance is solar, my sunglasses game is weak and my neck is starting to get sore.
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Jan 24, 2019
Jan 24, 2019 at 2:38 AM UTC
The dusted Air
Before the birth of Me I felt a warm light shined on my eyes, informing me to prepare for the World. And my birth felt like an employee stepping out of a building into a cold, blistering December where your toes and fingers are numb as a soldier's brain but your heart keeps pumping like an Ethiopian salvaging water in the wilderness
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Dec 12, 2014
Dec 12, 2014 at 12:20 AM UTC
before the birth of me
Have you noticed how the music screams, How children in the mall confront, How anchormen are filled with glee When TV news disaster's front? Noticed how the colours fade When iridescent seas are fouled Or skies turn turgid grey from blue And football crowds scream hatred loud? And why is it that every time An ethnic immigrant complains, He points the finger square at us, The fools, whose benefits he claims? And Asiatic hatreds brew Between the Indian brother’s, brown, Over Kashmir’s shaky border fight And Pakistan’s deep, angry frown. There’s trouble in the Middle East Kalashnikovs shoot up the town, Somebody soon, should tell those boys When slugs go up, they must come down. And what about the filthy beasts Who scatter needles in the sand To leave the fickle fall of dice To innocents with tender hand. Have you noticed how the wealthy keep The good stuff for their selfish self? The rest of WE are left to fight Amongst ourselves for lowest shelf And how about Ghaddafi’s end So brutal at the sandy drain Where wild eyed Arabs shot him dead And TV watchers, fat, complained? And listen to the moaning Greeks Who’ve clearly lived beyond their means, Complain about austerity And pauperize their Europeans. And witness now the howling Yanks Who stand to point recession’s claws Directing blame at anyone, But themselves, whom problems cause. And finally an Arabesque, Macabre in its grotesque call, Of skeletal, Ethiopian forlorn Whose starving end, ignored by all. There’s beauty in this bounteous world, There’s Godly, good, and quiet serene, But just beneath the surface lies The human filth, deserved, obscene. Marshalg Observing my world in turmoil. Auckland N.Z. 22 October 2011
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Oct 21, 2011
Oct 21, 2011 at 3:48 PM UTC
Have You noticed How the Music Screams?
Have you noticed how the music screams, How children in the mall confront, How anchormen are filled with glee When TV news disaster's front? Noticed how the colours fade When iridescent seas are fouled Or skies turn turgid grey from blue And football crowds scream hatred loud? And why is it that every time An ethnic immigrant complains, He points the finger square at us, The fools, whose benefits he claims? And Asiatic hatreds brew Between the Indian brother’s, brown, Over Kashmir’s shaky border fight And Pakistan’s deep, angry frown. There’s trouble in the Middle East Kalashnikovs shoot up the town, Somebody soon, should tell those boys When slugs go up, they must come down. And what about the filthy beasts Who scatter needles in the sand To leave the fickle fall of dice To innocents with tender hand. Have you noticed how the wealthy keep The good stuff for their selfish self? The rest of WE are left to fight Amongst ourselves for lowest shelf And how about Ghaddafi’s end So brutal at the sandy drain Where wild eyed Arabs shot him dead And TV watchers, fat, complained? And listen to the moaning Greeks Who’ve clearly lived beyond their means, Complain about austerity And pauperize their Europeans. And witness now the howling Yanks Who stand to point recession’s claws Directing blame at anyone, But themselves, whom problems cause. And finally an Arabesque, Macabre in its grotesque call, Of skeletal, Ethiopian forlorn Whose starving end, ignored by all. There’s beauty in this bounteous world, There’s Godly, good, and quiet serene, But just beneath the surface lies The human filth, deserved, obscene. Marshalg Observing my world in turmoil. Auckland N.Z. 22 October 2011
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the Ethiopian woman shunned for pulling rope from between her legs in a manner suggesting the rope has a beginning… whose dead newborn has the attention span of the sadness we register as patience in the guerrilla museums of health we are apt to attend on the backs of men who smoke during so they can chat after the cesarean.
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Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 9:47 PM UTC
deceptively simple abominations (i)
"Egypt will blow up The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam! Ethiopia ,a symbol of Pan Africanism, Could forget Its development map, For Egypt will help Carry on colonial legacy In to the future," So  did A verbal dosido The ill-famed abuser. "We dote on Egypt, Terror sowing In Ethiopia. Ironically a terrorist My self I will strike out Sudan from terrorist Blacklist If it sides Egypt This is my edict!"
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Oct 23, 2020
Oct 23, 2020 at 6:41 PM UTC
The imbecile's verbal dosido(Poet's note added)
7/1/2015 *"you will remember, for we in our youth did these things: yes many beautiful things" - Sappho's fragments* Greenwich Village, NYC Only the 24th of June and Simpson and i already tire of the summer weather. I always seem a little thinner these months i note, i bite a strawberry candy and show her how to light her lighter just hand me the fork no more callousness both on palmflesh and human dealings the building facades on Charles street as in the southern Chawellsss.... she explains alcoholism runs in my family, you know? i nod. no other problems i presume? the community garden nods and people who will always be richer, prettier, strut past with tuesday briefcases and their children's wheelcradles with ethiopian and guatemalan hands on the handlebars follow a block behind. *But we're from Joisey, and **** proud of it!* Lobster rolls and jimmies and johnnies and boardwalk planks Erin dreams of broadway instead and neonatal nursing, who doesn't? the only youth on the street that day we teetertotter past all the cafes and pubs and laundrymats *you know, if this was the school year we'd get picked up for skipping school*
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Jul 1, 2015
Jul 1, 2015 at 6:22 PM UTC
R-Train