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• Keep me out of this one
  on Jun 28, 2014 in Poetry poetry religion
  the lone yellow pebble bore witness to the abduction that took place at midnight the man was bound and gagged and led away as women wept keep me out of this one did you know that a bear needs twenty seven square miles of forest to live? keep me out o...
• Officer in charge.
  on Jun 27, 2014 in Poetry Africa developing future oil poetry value
  Says the classic bold type, On the FullScap paper, In the folder on the dusty desk, Of the Satellite police station in Isiolo. The drilling rigs will make no difference to, The cows or the goats or the lives of the people, Who do not live here. The c...
• My first lie
  on Jun 23, 2014 in Poetry poetry race sex
  I spoke French for thirteen years I say to him And he smiles. More cheese. Soft night yields to love, Rap is the only hard night sound, The White man is out of his depth, Even in French. He leans forward and whispers in my ear but, The first lie was...
• The Tyranny of doubt.
  on Jun 19, 2014 in Poetry aging dying hippie hope poetry time
  When you are born, You know that you are, Here to change the world, And it is good, And it’s alright, To do your best. Then, You’re checking the curtains, Just in case, You run out of sunshine. -evocative short poetry-Filed under: Poetry Tagged:...
• I wish we had played on all night.
  on Jun 16, 2014 in Poetry AIDs bars cowboys family friendship HIV poetry
  I wish we had played on all night, African cowboys with not much, Else to do, I wish we had challenged the fish in the sea and, Called out to the Bison, My father and his band, And his -strike while the iron is hot- Jive, Johnstone, his brother, On t...
• Ready to Land
  on Jun 16, 2014 in Poetry Photography poetry short poetry titirangistoryteller wordpress
  They’ve dimmed the lights getting ready to land service staff buckled down can’t see me pull out my camera, start clicking, clicking down the sci-fi lights, like some Twilight Zone episode where I’m holding my breath, waiting. Waiting for that...
• Sunday
  on Jun 15, 2014 in Poetry church generations poetry religion youth
  They say that Africans, Will have to fight for a place on the bus, So I am pulling out all the stops. I am burning incense and, Turning out closets, -exorcising demons- I am fumigating my life, Throwing out old clothes and, Trying to curry favour, -s...
• Three Trees
  on Jun 13, 2014 in Poetry ancestor environment grandma poetry trees
  A brook runs through my Grandmas farm, That used to carry gold. My Grandpa -Benjamin- Did not yield the land, To the British, who wanted it dammed. In 1968, they took him in, To have his appendix removed, And Grandma never remarried. My Aunt Alice, W...
• 747
  on Jun 13, 2014 in Poetry Africa defense Israel love poetry terroism
    He is munching on nuts, vigorously, Utilising the muscles he has. He has wonderful eyes, Hawk eyes, Wide set and is, Now eating a banana with a plastic spoon. We both have motioned for a waiter. He is masticating on a blob of Almond paste that...
• We are leaving them behind
  on Jun 13, 2014 in Poetry age displacement japan poetry technology
    Never mind steel, We are creating new materials, Carbon nano-tubes, poly-ceramics, Twirl a ball above your head, we are Building elevators into space, Stringing massage parlours around the earth, We are engineering ourselves, Computer worlds a...

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