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Poetry

Aug 15, 2011
Aug 07, 2011

Atop A wooden Hill

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Jul 18, 2011

Permeable

Some hearts are hard to change
Solid as crystalline rocks, they stand;
With a stubborn unwavering that represents more the futility of being static than the ease of stability.
Some minds are closed off
So threatened by the radical notion of novelty that they grow deep anchors
And invisible chains connecting ideas and opinions to the hinges of these minds link them inextricably.

Yet change can come so inconspicuously
Like the drop of late evening dew on archaic rock,
The slow and undetected spreading of newness to ancient stones,
The slight and subtle permeation seeping into cracks awakening a thunderstorm strong enough to divert well trained trains of thought,
The liquid melting of metal philosophy
That challenges set-in-stoneness, slipping past boundary lines.

‘Ndongo’ Banjul

 

Morning after morning he wakes

Stride after stride he takes

To the junction, the final destination

Where the attaya brews and the jamba stinks

That is the destination, morning after morning.

He sits, and he stares as the smoke fills the air,

Nyabi neeh na, he says to his friends,

Drawing in back the smoke as he splifs

The roach goes around the boys

The conversation begins,

Boy deka dara neku fi one says,

Another  nods in agreement, ‘deng wara tuki’

The conversation livens up as the roach is tossed into the guuter,

As a range sports car passes

A ‘chaa’ ‘ haaye’ comes from their lips

‘Range bu gena bad bi lai wache’ says one

‘wahati kor’, haral beng duga rek  son dang ga tiit sah, another choruses.

THE ABSENCE OF KNOWLEDGE

The absence of knowledge has made monsters of an ant, fantasies of the slight and made its victims fight them and slave after them in vain. 

The absence of knowledge made an Everest of a molehill and its victims seek to climb it for vanity and the end, self-destruction.

It made its victims seek to fill it or jump it and the end, an untimely death.

Apr 18, 2011

03/08

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I don’t want to be quiet.

When I cry, I don’t want you to cover my mouth anymore

I want our daughter to know me, and that I understand her

I want to be the only person you have, just like you’re the only person I have

I don’t want to be ashamed of being naked because of the way you look at me

I want to work; there are things I know how to do besides… besides

I don’t want to do all the chores alone

I want to wear make-up if I want to

I don’t want to have to wear make-up for you to be seen around me

I don’t want to be used.