Our Chikangawa Forest

Our green sea, our Chikangawa forest
How beautiful you are in our eyes
Like our precious stone you glitter
from above
You are our hope in our frozen hearts
But where are you heading to?

From northern star but to the south
You stretch your hand
From eastern Nyasa but to the west is your head
From up and shine is aray
broadcasting words of arch smiles

Our Kamuzu dreamt about you
And walked over your grin soils
Yes, he planted you, Chikangawa
Our man made queen caressed in green
But where are you heading to?

Our rock today and tomorrow

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poem by Paul Mwenelupembe
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Earthquake Tears, The Spirit cried

Kayelekela was born in Karonga district of uranium unison
It is like Sapitwa spirits that live there in hard bones unit
Two main spirits, husband and wife, dwelled in that spectrum
The compound of all spirits in the curved spurs of holy sputum
When the female spirit slept in Kayelekela tunnel bomb
The uranium deadly weapon, the body of queen was booked
The husband's cry materialised underground ridges from the lake
It circled in the air, circled on the land and curled breaths and baked
So mainy lives and facades went to the unbearable homes of clay
But the sovereign king came to candle down the bestiality prey
Up the spirit showed to woman in the garden of green leaves
Foliage of Chinkhundya household expected to be a mouth weaved
And instead the husband took the message to the chief Karonga
And he promised the best stem stake with women ahead of omega
Its purpose was not uphold her breathing for good
Its delegation was to denounce the turmoil to ruler's goggles
So they assembled sorry books of nine cattle to him
Up they squeezed themselves in shush to Chipili's cry beam
It shrugged the offer of far fetched with just a headshake
But with twelve horns, twelve heads and the spirit's tail of shame

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