Snakes in the grass
Sshh!!
Sneeze in the breeze
Attichoo!!
Snips on the twigs
Crip!!
Sneak in the house
Smew!!
Snarl in the house
Grrr!!
Snare on the hare
Snap!!
Snap while on a nap
Cheese!
Snacks on the rack
Yummy!
Smiles like miles
Grin!
Snails in... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 17 Views added 3 years ago
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They say you cover me up
Aren’t you part of me?
Are you just a lifeless flap?
Can I replace you to buy another one?
Who painted you the color black?
Why did he see it fit for me to be black?
Not white as the Britons
Or red as the Red Indians
... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 9 Views added 3 years ago
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Buy oh! You grannies the best seeds
Bring them in your good old baskets
Bless them in your ancient incantations
Bracing for the hope of bumper harvests
Dig oh! Sons of the mighty Muhia
Don’t be lazy like the Hare
Dredge the soil and with care... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 4 Views added 3 years ago
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A golden light,
Like gold.
A peeping eye,
Half closed.
A hot coal,
Half burnt.
A luminous bulb,
Half dissected.
A bright candle light,
With a hidden candle stick.
A shiny fiery ball,
Cupped on one side,
By the hazy horizon!
The setting sun!
... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 24 Views added 3 years ago
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It is so grotesque to know
So humiliating to understand
Making me go berserk
My sane melting away
Someone prowling in my desk!
Sneaking into my personal diary!
Going through what is unsupposed!
Draining in the whole forbidden!
So foolish as to... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 7 Views added 3 years ago
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Am a hollow shell
Whose echoes are poetry
Am a weeping statue
Whose tears are rhymes
Am a pyramid of chaos
Whose steps are stanzas
Am an earthen sarcophagus
And death is my poem
I am... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 9 Views added 3 years ago
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Big drop, sparse
Suspended in expanse
Looks grey, menacing dark
Glides, slides, blown by air
When it breaks, smashes
It forms numerous drops
Mopping through the sky
In a foggy rushing white
Cuts slices and minces
Slashing down the air
Whirling... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 12 Views added 3 years ago
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When there is war
And it ends, there you are
When there is massacre
And there is verdict, you come up
When there is gross murder
And murderer convicted, you are seen
When there is danger of violence
And it fails, people feel you
When the sea is not... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 9 Views added 3 years ago
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I used to think poetry had a form
A structure on which to adhere to
Little did I know it was a cage
One, seemingly, of my own... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 9 Views added 3 years ago
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I am in school, lying on my bed
Leaning my face into the window
Inclusively watching the sky, darkened
Leaving for the sky-scrapers at the hill brow
Pondering vigorously on my mind
Why some stars are more bright
Peering at the innermost of my mind... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 6 Views added 3 years ago
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Fate stalks me everywhere I go
No matter how I evade him
He’s just determined at me to have a go
And me life to discard to... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 9 Views added 3 years ago
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Many are the times
I watch you
Much the times
I wonder
Madam Cook, our grammar teacher, says
It is you I am looking
Matching she claims we are
Even though she knows not the truth
Mystery engulfs me when I look at you
Identical they say we are... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 3 Views added 3 years ago
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To approach an armed man
Unarmed
To walk in a dark night
Without torchlight
To walk among male lions
Holding their manes
To raid a bank and come out
Without taking loot
To fail to prepare for test
And expect good grade
To you what is courage
That... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 4 Views added 3 years ago
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The existence that I lead
Is but a simple thread
In the tapestry of my dreams
As I lie cold in my grave
I have lost count of iterations
Or the many relived terrors
The gods surely must hate me
To deny me a quiet... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 6 Views added 3 years ago
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Wobbly worn face,
Full of ink spat on it.
Weeping of age and aching spine
Floppy and denied of the staple to hold it
Willful to be written notes on
Fearing still the sharp quill stabbing in abrupt
Waiting not to collect the ink it spills as it is... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 5 Views added 3 years ago
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I regret having been like this
Because people fear me greatly
When I try to show up everyday
They hide in house under a blanket!
Just because I deny them sight
To enjoy the good scenery
That is endowed to our earth
But it is my duty after... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 10 Views added 3 years ago
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My brother’s radio my friend;
Thunders and roars
Whispers and mumbles
Croaks and groans
And he gives it a blow
It squeaks and squeals
Grunts and grumbles
As he rants and yells
Flinging and reeling curses
Oh! If it had large floppy... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 6 Views added 3 years ago
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It was a hot humid evening
When the sun relentlessly kept shining
Reluctant to drown in the horizon
And the clouds nowhere to be... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 7 Views added 3 years ago
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The lair of despair
The cave of hopelessness
The burrow of misery
The nest of sorrow
The dawn of suffering
The midday scorch of solitude
The dusk of distress
The dark of... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 6 Views added 3 years ago
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Could I have been a victim of a curse?
A spell from a malevolent wizard
Closing all my learning channels
Administering me to total failure
Did I curse God like Nebuchadnezzar?
Or blaspheming with Thy spirit
Dipping into wrath from an unforgiving... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 7 Views added 3 years ago
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An effigy of a grotesque beast
With horns on the side cast
A picture of menace
With fear that ebbs away grace
Could the most cunning creature
With permission of God to snare
Crucify the people’s delight in him
With caricatures from whence no... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 4 Views added 3 years ago
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May the devil take her!
For all that she denies me
Misery that she bestows me
Fight her to her grave
Just because she has a beautiful head
And pretty silky hair
Justify not what she did to me
Alas! I could not believe it!
Nights I spent... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 7 Views added 3 years ago
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Bark sandals strapped with lianas
A cow-hide cloak full of furs
Knotted at one shoulder
A goat skin of a head... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 5 Views added 3 years ago
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I love nature, just like everybody else
But in its beauty, is a core of evil
That created a cruel pecking order
Where the more vicious survive
And the meek... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 10 Views added 3 years ago
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Mama! Papa!
Why don’t you hear me!
Why don’t you hear my cries!
Why not heed to my call!
Why assume me! Please!
Mama! You promised to cook for me!
You promised me good education!
You remember the talks mama?
Talk to me again mama……and
Papa! You... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 3 Views added 3 years ago
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Hearts that beat the ancient tune,
Hail not trouble to their abode.
Their ways are always pristine,
Hoping their life no troubles... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 4 Views added 3 years ago
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It is a bright morn
I wake with a yawn
Extending to a moan
Alas! Am on the lawn!
I make a furtive glance
Round the expanse
Looking for a chance
To know if it’s France!
There I see a person
Who is clumsily don
With a small phone
Walking among the... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 9 Views added 3 years ago
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Out in the yellow woods
Where the trees brood
A great road forked
Into a twin brood
One fork tine twine
And meandered in the briar
With nary an impression
Of a sole in... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 23 Views added 3 years ago
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He wears shaggy and baggy.
Chains and chains of ‘chains’.
With a heavy chronometer,
And exotic shoes from abroad!
He drives a car fast,
To show his rush for pleasure,
Either to measure a suit,
Or buy Yankee made... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 2 Views added 3 years ago
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I know sadness all too well
That is why I am sympathetic
Lending an ear to others’ woes
And a shoulder to cry on
I know hunger too intimately
And I can’t stand his presence
I would rather be half full
Than see another half... – by GIDRAF MWANGI | 23 Views added 3 years ago
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