"sango" poems
He called me princess. I don't think much of it, let it slip my mind from time to time.
I'm fine with it.
Until today, when I watched a woman tell a little girl she wasn't one.
Talking about how her daddy shouldn't call her what she's not and her mama shouldn't be filling her head with words like, "You can be anything you want to."
Like, its not true and if you don't tell her now she'll never outgrow the idea of being
A princess.
And though Heaven forbid we dreams big,
I, was definitely a princess.
Princess Aleisia of the Beauties, a forest is my own back yard,
my castle was a tree I literally believed gnomes lived beneath: Alglenia.
An orphaned warrior; I was half gypsy, half native, half Neopian Light Faerie,
And though I clearly was not a princess who did math, I protected my subjects from monsters and evil that was constantly trying to overthrow good.
I could wield a Morning Star better than any boy on the block.
I had inner battles with myself, for I had the blood and horns of a dragon and it was always a challenge to be both Athena's apprentice and an aspiring sage because I thrived in the dark.
I was part demon like Inuyasha,
I was Sango,
I was Mononoke,
I was Mulan,
I was Pocahontas,
I was Bell AND the Beast,
I was Susan and Lucy,
I was Esmerelda, Anastasia
And that's still a big part of me.
Because, if someone had listed all the things I couldn't be while my knees were still to weak for me to stand and speak up for what I believed in, I probably would never have been a poet.
So excuse me for using the word "heroine" with the last ounce of innocence the world has yet to offer a little girl.
Pardon me for trying to learn to infuse grace and charm with strength and loyalty.
Now, imagine with me.
The places I used to play left in ruin. My castles disintegrating. The echo of my battle cries through the forests and fields and mountains have long since faded because the heir to my throne never took her place.
Deny her the right to grow out of her child hood?
Deny me the right to write?
This was never a career choice of mine,
This will always be a way of life.
Feb 3, 2013
Feb 3, 2013 at 4:45 PM UTC
GHETTO GOSPLE.
You aren't born to please anyone, neither accepted by everybody.
But your purpose is to make sure you live good making better thangs, making thangs better.
Spreading love across to each and every one wisely. You're born to rule not ruled. Everyone is meant to live fee free. But it takes bravery to make a living, on the field of struggle, busting and jostling, in search for fortune, get yours, I'd get mine. living in dreams,
getting goals accomplished unyielding. Thinking of living again tomorrow,
when we hadn't none reaped ou'ta momentum. Is there future promised to us at all.?
When we had spent perhaps even the half of our lifetime , achieving nothang.
Stagnated, disdained, and denounced crazy sage, labeled mad. Does it not mean we were plagued? God forbid! Sango in the altar.
History's mystery new testament era. Jesus is Lord a slain Saint sent from above.
Make a melody 🎶 sing to the world, lengthening fasting season.
Faithful journey along with Supreme omniscient ghost. Awe! - C9fm
Mar 15, 2023
Mar 15, 2023 at 7:40 PM UTC
Last night was for Linda Crige chanting of love excitement that wakes the sleeping forest.
Six rounds ***
What is my concern?
Nevertheless, uncle is back with Mercy Bukas. Tonight I shall spy through the keyhole.
But it was not like yesterday, my eye greeted the ***** of the moment with the intensity of the sun.
The night was for conversation! for conversation!
"I am pregnant this is the test result, four month and two weeks." Voice seized from close range. My eye gazed uncle's mind, though it was misty.
This must be emblematic of joy I inferred. Pandemonium broke out and silenced the smiling breeze, argument ravaged the air. Uncle denied "It is for Danjuma"
Not a muttered curse from the two sides. Ogun and Sango did not awake from their tranquil sleep regardless but Esu was at work. Their curse appalled my heart not once. "Who is at home to settle the rage"
but rather the awaken forest was matching closer. "I never promise to marry you" uncle glued my ears with his voice of wiles. Chapter closed.
Alas, a child will be born, head for uncle, dark-skinned as Danjuma, others for Alien.
An unfortunate child will be born by a promiscuous mother to licentious father only if not a descendant of sewage.
Ogun: god if iron
Sango: god of thunder
Esu: Yoruba name for satan
Dec 1, 2018
Dec 1, 2018 at 2:21 PM UTC
Moulded with fine clay and sand
There my beauty ebony princess stand
My epitome of beauty, a symbol of perfection
An enigma worthy of my adulation
Your beauty a mystery even for the gods
Almighty Sango, stunned by the spell of your grace
Pelts the sky with thunder; your beauty a source of wonder.
Son, crucified and forsaken by his father
For mortals fall and all seems asunder
Your ***** sways, and ravages the earth like a crazed tornado
Melting the hardest rock, your smile a consuming volcano
Leaving clusters of white diamonds, forged in an African furnace.
Saint turn sinner, lusting after your loveliness
First turn last, ****** by the medusa of your shape
You open your mouth to speak and,
Pharaoh with his army fall under your feet
Gazumped by your red lips, together with his fleet
And Venus watched from olympus your beauty at its peak
My Black diamond
Jun 27, 2017
Jun 27, 2017 at 1:48 PM UTC
Nu caro amico dice a n'ato amico:
- Pe mezza toja me songo appiccecato.
Tu vuò sapè cu cchi?
No, nun t' 'o ddico.
Statte tranquillo, l'aggio sistemato.
Afforza 'o vvuò sapè? E mo t' 'o ddico,
ma tu nun 'o cunusce, è n'imbecille.
Na vota s' 'a faceva int' a stu vico,
mo pare ca sta 'e casa a Via dei Mille.
Ch'ha ditto? Niente... L'aggio sistemato.
Mo nun s'azzarda cchiù a fà 'o fetente.
Ha ditto ca tu si nu disgraziato;
ma nun 'o dà importanza, è n'ommo 'e niente.
E ch'ato ha ditto? 'E solde nun se fanno
onestamente senza n'espediente,
si 'a ggente parla, ride, è pecché sanno
comme te l'he accattata 'a milleciento...
Che ssaccio, ca mugliereta ch'ha fatto,
ca tu te stive zitto, ire cuntento,
ca te 'mparaste pure a ffà 'o distratto
e doppo t'accattaste appartamento.
Sentenno sti parole, tu mme saje,
'o sango a parte a capa m'è sagliuto:
Che faccio? Accido a chisto... 'o passo 'o guaio...
Sentenno 'e di ca si pure curnuto,
nun ce aggio visto cchiù: l'aggio 'nchiantato
senza le dà nemmanco 'a bonasera.
Sta lezione se l'ha mmeretata,
'nfaccia a sti ccose io songo assaje severo!
Aprite ll'uocchie si n'amico vuosto
ve vene a raccuntà ca v'ha difeso
'a quacche malalengua: è stu cagliostro
ca isso stesso ve vò fà l'offesa.
E quante nce ne stanno 'e chiste amice
ca songo "cari amici"... e nun è overo.
Guardatele int' 'a ll'uocchie... sò felice
quanno fanno vedè ca sò sincere.
'A nonna mia, vicchiarella e saggia,
diceva sempe: - Nce sta 'o ditto antico:
Chi 'mmasciata te porta, vance adagio,
ca 'ngiuria te vò fà... e nun è amico. -
1k
Nun songo nu grand'ommo
nun songo nu scienziato.
'A scola nun sò gghiuto
nisciuno m'ha mannato.
S' i' songo intelliggente?
e m' 'o spiate a mme?
I' songo nato a Napule,
che ne pozzo sapè?!
Appartengo alla *****
a chella folla 'e ggente
ca nun capisce proprio 'o riesto 'e niente.
Però ve pozzo dicere na cosa:
campanno notte e ghiuomo a stu paese
pur i' me sò 'mparato quacche cosa,
quaccosa ca se chiamma umanità.
Senza sapè nè leggere e nè scrivere,
da onesto cittadino anarfabbeta,
ve pozzo parlà 'ncopp' a n' argomento
ca certamente ve pò interessà: chi è ll'ommo.
Ll'ommo è nu pupazzo 'e carne
cu sango e cu cervello
ca primma 'e venì al mondo
(cioè 'ncopp' a sta terra)
madre natura, ca è sempre priviggente,
l'ha miso 'nfunno 'a ll'anema,
cusuto dint'o core, na vurzella
cu dinto tante e tante pupazzielle
che saccio: 'o mariuncello,
na strega 'e Beneviento,
nu scienziatiello atomico
cu a faccia indisponente,
nu bello Capo 'e Stato
vestuto 'a Pulcinella;
curtielle, accette, strummolo
e quacche sciabbulella.
Penzanno ca 'o pupazzo
nu juomo se fa ommo,
si se vò divertì,
chesto 'o ppò fà. E comme?
Sceglienno 'a dint' 'o mazzo
ca tene dint' 'a vurzella,
chello ca cchiù lle piace
fra tutte 'e pazzielle.
Si po' sentite 'e dicere:
"'O tale hanno arrestato!
Era uno senza scrupolo:
pazziava al peculato.
E trene nun camminano?
'A posta s'he fermata?".
Chi tene 'mmano 'o strummolo,
pazzianno s'he spassato.
'O scienziatiello atomico
ch' 'a bomba 'a tena stretta
"Madonna! - tremma 'o popolo-
E si mo chisto 'a jetta?".
Guardate che disgrazia
si 'a sciabbulella afferra
nu capo ca è lunatico:
te fa scuppià na guerra.
Senza penzà ca 'o popolo:
mamme, mugliere e figlie,
chiagneno a tante 'e lacreme.
Distrutte sò 'e famiglie!
A sti pupazze 'e carne affocaggente
l'avessame educà cu 'o manganiello,
oppure, la natura priviggente,
avess' 'a fa turnà nu Masaniello.
Ma 'e ccose no... nun cagnano
e v' 'o dich'i' 'o pecché:
nuie simme tanta pecure...
facimmo sempe "mbee".
729
V'aggia spià na cosa Donn'Amà:
vurria sapè pecché quanno ve veco,
la capa mia nun pò cchiù raggiunà.
Si me parlate, 'mpietto 'a voce vosta,
m'arriva comme n'arpa, nu viulino;
quanno rerite sento 'e manduline:
na sinfunia 'e Betove e di Sciopè.
Che v'aggio ditto... niente Donn'Amà!
Quanno cu st'uocchie vuoste me guardate,
me sento tutto 'o sango e friccecà.
'O core fa na sosta, nun cammina;
me dice chiano chiano sottovoce:
- Dincello a Donn'Amalia... è bella, è ddoce!...
i' tengo 'o desiderio 'e ma spusà. -
637
Mo accumencia l'anno nuovo,
è Jennaro, ch'alleria!
Cu 'a speranza e 'a fantasia,
tu te pienze ca chist'anno
forse è cchiù meglio 'e chill'ato...
quanno è a fine t'he sbagliato.
A Febbraio nce sta 'o viglione:
chi se veste d'arlecchino,
pulcinella o colombina...
e me fanno tanta pena
chesti ggente cu sti facce:
ma songh'uommene o pagliacce?!
Quanno vene 'o mese 'e Marzo
pure 'e ggatte fanno ammore,
ch'aggia fa? Me guardo a lloro?
'Mmiezo 'e grade cu 'a vicina,
faccio un anema e curaggio
e m'acchiappo nu passaggio.
Comme è ddoce 'o mese Abbrile,
tutta ll'aria è profumata!
P' 'e ciardine quanno è 'a sera
cu na femmena abbracciata,
musso e musso, core e core...
tutta smania e tutto ammore.
Quant'è bello 'o mese 'e Maggio
quanno schioppano sti rrose!
Che prufumo int'a stu mese
pe Pusiileco addiruso!
Stongo 'nterra o 'mparaviso
quanno tu staje 'mbraccio a mme?
Quanno è Giugno la stagione
vene e trase chianu chiano:
s'ammatura pure 'o ggrano,
s'ammatura tutte cose...
Pure 'a femmena scuntrosa
tu t' 'a cuoglie cu nu vaso.
Quanno è Luglio 'mmiezo 'o mare,
'ncopp' 'a spiaggia, 'nterra 'a rena
mamma mia, quanta sirene!
Io cu ll'uocchie m' 'e magnasse;
guardo a chesta, guardo a chella,
ma pe mme tu si 'a cchiù bella!
Quanno è Austo che calore!
lo nun saccio che me piglia...
Chistu sole me scumpiglia!
E te guardo cu passione:
volle 'o sango dint' 'e vvene
e nisciuno me trattene.
È chest'aria settembrina
ca te mette dint' 'e vvene
tanta smania 'e vulè bbene!
Nu suspiro, ciente vase
mille cose e 'o desiderio
ca st' ammore fosse serio.
Vene Uttombre, int' 'a stu mese
ll'aria è fresca p' 'a campagna.
Chisto è tiempo d' 'a vennegna,
si t'astrigne a na cumpagna
zittu zittu dint' 'a vigna,
nun se lagna e lass'a fà.
Chiove, nebbia, scura notte.
Stu Nuvembre porta 'mpietto
nu ricordo fatto a llutto:
nu canisto 'e crisanteme...
chistu sciore, che tristezza,
mette 'ncore n'amarezza!
A Natale, 'o zampugnaro,
'e biancale, 'e spare, 'e bbotte,
'o presebbio a piede 'o lietto.
Quann' è 'mpunto mezanotte
cu mugliereta tu miette
'o Bambino dint' 'a grotta...
714
Tengo 'nu cane ch'è fenomenale,
se chiama **** 'o voglio bene assaie.
Si perdere l'avesse? Nun sia maie!
Per me sarebbe un lutto nazionale.
Ll 'aggio crisciuto comm'a 'nu guaglione,
cu zucchero, biscotte e papparelle;
ll'aggio tirato su cu 'e mmullechelle
e ll'aggio dato buona educazione.
Gnorsì, mo è gruosso. È quase giuvinotto.
Capisce tutto... Ile manca 'a parola.
È cane 'e razza, tene bbona scola,
è lupo alsaziano, è polizziotto.
Chello ca mo ve conto è molto bello.
In casa ha stabilito 'a gerarchia.
Vò bene ' a mamma ch'è 'a signora mia,
e a figliemo isso 'o tratta da fratello.
'E me se penza ca lle songo 'o pate:
si 'o guardo dinto a ll'uocchiemme capisce,
appizza 'e rrecchie, corre, m'ubbidisce,
e pè fà 'e pressa torna senza fiato.
Ogn'anno, 'int'a ll'estate, va in amore,
s'appecundrisce e mette 'o musso sotto.
St'anno s'è 'nnammurato 'e na basotta
ca nun ne vò sapè: nun è in calore.
Povero **** soffre 'e che manera!
Porta pur'isso mpietto stu dulore:
è cane, si... ma tene pure 'o core
e 'o sango dinto 'e vvene... vo 'a mugliera...
518
The lowdown is
the low down of the west
play their games the western way
clutching a fluffy toy says this is a teddy bear
Come down the Equator
where men were born men never were boys
and blazing sun seasons and bake you mahogany hard
in the palatial forestry you learn to look the wild beasts in the eyes
The refrigerated souls says nowt
when you bawl at lions its your turn at the watering hole
and can mimic the hiss of the serpents and pull hogs by the tail
you know red eye albinos only come out at night to pose by the fire
I, who have stood under the African sun at noon
and offered it more coal to kindle its hellish fire even more
I, owner of Sango excalibur that has slain twenty plus in bloodless bliss
can I be moved by ice cave dwellers who are forever children on knees
I own rays of sun and spake with ancestors unbowed
breathe the air of the Serengeti and ascended Olumo for homage
I will drink my own blood and hear the calls of my deities to arm
I will never be moved by the music of the unclean souls in howling
celebrating their shame and praising the jins of weakness and cowardice
I am my father's son, born under African sky
I am the land that made the man of the man of the living men
I know the star that led three to herald the King of Kings forever
I know who I am, grind me to dust I will rise and tell you yet again
I am my father's son...I know who and what I am......
I am my father's son...I know who and what I am......
I am my father's son...I know who and what I am......
Jul 12, 2019
Jul 12, 2019 at 8:20 PM UTC
No going back
We will defend our pride
Our heritage
Our fatherland
Not with guns, powder nor machetes
Not with armoured carriers
But with powers ancestral
We will visit Egungun Oya
The god of divination
We will invoke Mawu
The god of the Sun and Moon
Have you heard about Babalu aiye?
The god of infectious diseases
Let the games begin
Omoluabi oooo! Omoluabi oh!!
"Bo ba d'ogun; ko d'ogun"
Where is Sango, the god of thunder?
"Gunugu ni oruko, ti an pe Ifa?"
"Okalamagbo ni oruko ti an pe awon Iya oshoronga"
"Abiamo ki gbo ekun omo re",
"Ki o ma ta si were"
"Oya, Amotekun oooo"
When the walls of Jericho fell
How many bullets were shot?
They stood on their father's faith
How was Judah and Jerusalem taken?
The red sea parted by the word
We too, shall speak the word
But now, the words our Ancestors
When the centre can no longer hold
Surely, things will fall apart
"Omo Yoruba, ronu"
Enough! No longer shall our lands be desecreted
Cast the cowries in the calabash
Let us inquire of our gods
Shall we pursue and reclaim?
Ready, set, "Amotekun dee"
Babatunde Raimi
Author/Life Coach/Poet
08178827380 & 08035063895
Jan 15, 2020
Jan 15, 2020 at 4:05 PM UTC
In the square of the hanging palms
where the white sands sifts softly underfoot
and geckos and lizards know to stay away
the elders sit in quiet contemplation chewing kola nuts
Come, you son of tomorrows for its time
Soon you will go into the forest to find your mettle
for the Night of a thousand whispers beckons
where you will meet the headless warriors with three legs
and the talking calabash will ask of you where bravery lives
You will traverse in honour grace on your own
for now the hills says you are no longer a stranger
and your hand now reaches over your head to your ear
you will get a sheath for your sword and the armlet of a deity
that holds the charms of all the braves who wore your blood
know that the tears of your mother was shed only at your birth
You are a son of the land made of water and lightning
Sango gave you heart of fire while you drank the milk of tigress
before the oracle it was divined that your road leads in frontage
go resolutely with the cured spirit of the blazing sun at noon
remember some days ahead you will walk alone, its ordained
walk wisely like the tiger with the sleight of the regent beast
Know that in your river blood flows the tales of the unvanquished
the tenacity of the lynx and the ****** of your sword cleaves solid
go and do not look back, your path is true and the Creator sees!
Mar 22, 2019
Mar 22, 2019 at 3:07 PM UTC
The heart of man acknowledges
that there is a superior entity
who is greater than him
That this figure is supreme
And must be revered
'cause this being has the abilities to
Provide for his needs
Protect him from harm or his enemies
Rescue him from his problems
Answer his unanswered questions
In a quest to connect to this paramount being
Man has found him/her/it in various things/creatures/names/ideas/spirits
Stone, Cow, Carved items, Jesus, Mohammed, Budda, God, Universe,
Moon, Stars, Sango, Satan
The list is endless...
May 16, 2019
May 16, 2019 at 8:35 AM UTC
DRUMMER BOY
With your sticks
You cook the beat of rationality
Your omele,a preacher
It's preaches sanity into an insane world
Obviously you are heavenly endowed
Tell sango,to come see
The sticks which heat Kindle his flames
The beats that lure him into dancing
Mysterious drummer
Even the deaf sway to your rhythm
The lane raise hands
To stop the quarrel between
Your sticks
You drummer of life
Play your beat
So I can tap the foot of my conscience
Hit your drums
For the dry bones to rise
sticks of rationality
Beats of sanity
Are what Eledumare
Has endowed you with
My village drummer boy.
#TheRadicalThespian __
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Apr 1, 2018
Apr 1, 2018 at 8:36 AM UTC