The will to chase airplanes
Every day the little boy
With the golden sprint in
His dust covered feet chases
The silhouette of the same airplane
With great messianic zeal that it hurts
And his hands are flying as if he is
The seasoned and proud pilot himself
Don't worry little one
You see today your mother
Cries with the shame of watching
You resorting to the half bricks
That you improvise into toy airplanes
First you must learn the hard
Lessons of life in the raw
Before you graduate from the university
Of the heartlessness of chafing under
The ropes of adversity
You must earn your stripes from
Faculty of the hard knocks of suffering
And only then will you soar
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(Love Poems) Make Up Your Mind
Hard are the stark choices and Lingi M.
Knows she must sit down and weigh up her options
She must make up her mind or be the sore loser
She must choose between kindness and
The demands of her own wants and needs or starve
Her inner most feeling cry out to be pleasured
Life's demands are ruthless and merciless they're
Uncompromising and baby in the time we're living in
You must snatch the advantage and pursue relentlessly i
The other man will kill you with kindness and the other
Man takes her to the night club in a luxury cruise ship
The last has the looks of the gods of the silver screens
Mister A.has inherited his dad's poverty
Mister B.is rich he fires people on the spot
Mister C is fabulous the girls don't know who he'll marry
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(Inspiration poems) Dance with me
Let me take you through
The steps of how you can
Wriggle and wiggle your way
Through the jazz pains of
Your present predicaments
My sister.Let me drill you
Through the pick-a-boo style
Of how you can bob and weave
Your way through the maze of
The bolo punches that life throws
With quick rapid fire precision at you
Lover.Come and dance with me
Forward looking never wavering you
Inspirational and successful you
Prettiest most fabulous heavenly
Divine you.Take me in your arms and
Move me through the swing and the
Tap dance of the challenges we will
Face in the bright future ahead
Sweetest light footed honey darling
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(Freedom poems) Fairy child
Fairy child
You child of a god
Fairy child
You have given
up your freedom
Fairy
Fairy child
And now you roam
our world free
Fairy child
because
you know no borders
and your education
Ain't enough fairy child
So you cross borders
to disrespect international
Treaties
You're wanted by INTERPOL
(Can you spell that out loud?)
and the host of
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(Sick poems) A kleptomaniac of Clipper Town
My sister's husband is a kleptomaniac
He goes to church and leaves the house of the
Lord with the pastor's Bible safely tucked away
In the pocket of the old army jacket he likes
To wear when he goes to confession
His best friend invites him to the wedding and he
Relieves the bride of her wedding dress
My sister's husband is a kleptomaniac
He plays with the kids at the children's playground
And the little fellas cry and cry because my sister's
Husband has vanished into the horizon with their ice cream
He chairs the meeting of the farmer's union with his eye on the flock
He comes in the night and steals the protesting farmer's sheep
As punishment for non payment of services rendered
The Minister Of Police is crying fowl he demands action
He is wanted by the South African Police Services for selling
Them fake sleek German Sedans...the whole episode has embarrassed
The faithful servants of the people to the delight of the opposition
Borders are sealed he is on the wanted list of INTERPOL
The F.B.I and Scotland yard have been called in to assist
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To the infant who was found dead covered in plastic
You had no business to enter
This unloving world too soon
And uninvited dear child
You unloved and unplanned and
Unfortunate and unappreciated
Burden of our uncaring society
Too soon like the free looting
Pirate you of all people went
And blindly smuggled yourself into
Our great over burdened lives
Your mother was too busy
Enjoying herself in the bright lights
And you sneaked yourself in
To temporarily bring to the halt
Her merriment in the lime light
And that was unfair of you to spring
The surprise of your shocking
Arrival while she was so busy and
In retaliation she responded to teach
You manners and feed you to the dogs
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(Africa poems) Unnatural frontiers
Unnatural frontiers
These artificial borders
They cut the womb of the mother
Land into these disjointed parts
Did you hear what they say?
Here too many failed states
Have mushroomed! Dictators
Like pests are killing the people
Africa! The oracles are not content!
These artificial borders and these
Unnatural frontiers were not there
In the beginning Oh Mother Africa!
What is South Africa? How dare you
Name a country after a direction?
Mind! There is a long stretch of wire
Some colonialist administrator put it
There on purpose now how can you, Oh Africa?
Tell the whole world that is your border?
The world was free to roam in unhindered!
What's so equatorial about Equatorial Guinea?
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Divine faith.Immaculate faith
You know the one
He worked in the bad weather
And only Divine Faith.
Immaculate Faith. Kept him alive
Proving to his bosses that he was
above enslavement and suspicion and death
But at the critical time
He saw the gambling casino den
(Men's eyes are lit with the flame
of easy money straight away like that)
He lost his nerve
And money became his tin pot god
(The scriptures warn men against false
worship but no modern man of them can read)
He lost his faith and now
He's the ornament of the ghetto hoist by
the false petard of his diverse machinizations
There were those you were well connected
(Why don't you simmer down my brother? The strong
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Rappers of the house of hunger
Rappers of the house of hunger
Why do you rap me out of sleep
So early in the eerie morning?
The loveless day is filled
With dread and anger
The morning asks many questions
The night destroys and give
Only a morsel of the untruth
Who will the neighborhood
Serial killer kill today?
You see
This is what happens when
You apply to live in the city
You remember the chuff girl I
Brought here last time?
Her gray skeleton is
Used as the drinking
Calabash by the drunkard who occupies
The tall grass where you sleep
Death is your constant companion!
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Walk In The Night 2
Walk in the night
Walk in the night of peace
Walk in the serene night
And prove the theories of
The pseudo scientists wrong
Walk in the with God on your side
Walk in the night
And I swear I will be your devout
Disciple and you will be the guru
Of inter racial harmony and with you
We shall rock the bastions of
Racial supremacy
To their flimsy foundations
Walk in the night and
The dreams of your clean
Mind shall seep into
Your soul and you
Will be saved by the Lord
Take my hand
And walk with confidence
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