Here you waited too long for me to love you
Here you waited too long
For me to love you and you
Could tell with your trained
Eye that I was longing to be
Held tight and be loved and
Now you have taken my love
You have fled back into
Yourself the house is so
Empty without your pervasive
Presence and the presence
That comes to glare at me in
Sleep is like the tomb of your
Ghost come back to haunt me and
Make me regret why I refused to
Acknowledge the lyric streak
Of the lurid silent evil in you
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(Freedom poems) Lyric of the dove and the beast
Dove: st
You sing of your
wish to be free
To be less feared
You belt out the
soaring lyric and
you sing of the need
For you to be understood
in the right context
Of your beastly nature
You sing the sad blues
Of your desire to be
liberated from the fears
That haunt your liberty
Beast:
I do not bark in anger
My soul is filled
With the milk of kindness
Fly down to me
(Dove flies down)
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A Free State sojourn
I have taken a much needed break
From my husband and his constant nagging
And his boring political manifestos and uninspiring speeches
At last I am free of the bondages
Of my husband's Johannesburg and
The boring conversations of his cronies
I am free in the Free State
And yesterday I took in this
Tall charmer of a toy boy to remind
Myself of what I have been missing
After all that chafing under the tyranny
Of my husband and his godless nyabzen
Glossary
nyabzen-a lover
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Sacrifice not the truth
Not to thy lips
Sacrifice not the truth
To thy brute egotism
Not to thy heart
Sacrifice not the truth
To thy vengeful ill logic
Not to thy spirit
Sacrifice not the truth
To the baneful intentions
Not to thy soul
Sacrifice not the truth
To the sharp arrows of thy lies
Love the truth
Where you are the truth
Shall be your sister
And thy loving companion
The truth you love to tell
Will stand by you will
Forgive you readily without
Hurt and set you free to enjoy
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(Freedom poems) Right now.This morning
Right now.This morning
You can hear the eagle
and the raven chattering
no end
And deciding to pursue
not the
heated discourse further
off
They soar to cleanse
their souls
in the flames of the fire
of the sun
Do not snare them now
The quest for freedom
burns in their eternal hearts
Right now.This morning
You come with me baby
And I swear I'll take you
where you never dreamed you
Could reach out and shrouded
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Ban Ki Moon
Ban Ki Moon is on top of the moon he flops
From this wine splashed peace conference
To the next lopsided peace conference
Where Ban Ki Moon is you're sure for sure
To find old gray bearded silly Kofi Annan
Where Moon sips sake under the banyan tree
You'll find Annan under the baobao tree
They preach a lot of baseless senselessness
The world wants to drink from the cup of peace
Under Moon it gets the broken bones of Iraqi kids
Ban Ki Moon and Kofi Annan...they so levitate
Between decision and indecision it's crazy madly
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A minute of silence
May the soul that has
Departed rest in peace
You did so much
For the world
You owe the world nothing
The world did so much for you
It is only fair for you to go to
Your place of eternal rest knowing
That the world large is not
Indebted to you
The world and you were firm friend
The world and you will be friends
When you both meet again
May the soul that has departed
Rest in peace and hanker not
After the things of the world
The wold has freed the dead
And let there be peace in Heaven
And the world will find peace
Alleluia!
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(Hate Poems) Hate Speech Bafflement
If I sing the killer the farmer
Tune of my liberation is that hate speech?
If the white people sing the kill
The baboon kindergarten lullaby of their
Race hatred is that hate speech?
Your terrorist is my hero
It is an exercise in futility
And no judge can censor what the people
Want to sing
If the people want those who kill
White widows on the the farms
To face the gallows listen to their outcry
If the people want to subject the crass
Racists who racially abuse them let the fools
Taste the law of the jungle of the people
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(Friendship Poems) When The Friendship Has To End
I can go binge drinking
And girl chasing with you
I can do this naughty
Things with you
You are great to have around
You have the right slam bang
Dunk sense of humor the ladies
Adore you
The party is dull incomplete
Without you
I can't miss to be seen
In your company
My friend
I can do all this things
With you but there's a limit
To all things
And when you command me and urge
Me to kill somebody you hate
When you abuse my friendship
And use it to commit these crimes
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Everything Is Beautiful
Smile more often bro'
Laugh more all the time
'Cause laughter is the tonic
That brightens frowning faces
In the morning AND don't look down
Walk with long beautiful strides
Beauty is everything boy have you
Seen how beautiful the frog is
As she performs one stunning frog
Manuvre after another in the swimming
Pool to leave the males drooling
Beauty exists in everything
Everything exists in beauty and you
Don't have to see with the cunning of
The frog to appreciate this beautiful
Stunning world of yours to know that
You too are beautiful
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