POET!K FLAVOR: African Reunion

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Poet!K Flavour is a blog for upcoming African poets to share their work with the world. The blog features poems on Africa, life, nature, friendship, Love,...and everything that people care about.

This year, the best poems featured on this blog will be compiled and published in a single poetry book and the proceeds from sold copies shall be donated to charity within Africa.

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Being a charity project, poets will not be paid for any of their works published in the final edited collection. Poets with works appearing will however be credited for their work and, of course, receive at least one copy of the final publication. No poems will be reprinted without the permission of the poet. More info about the final publication will be layed out at the appropriate time. Thank you.

Sunday, January 04, 2009

African Reunion

Dear ma,
I have not let the tears,
Drown the smiles of past years
I cannot hold them back, so they roll
But they will not reside,
In the shadows on my face

Dear mama,
Seven months have made me older,
The night owl feels much colder
But it is only time that keeps us apart,
The thud of merciless boots,
Stills echoes,
Shuddering my sleepless nights

Dear mother,
There is no where else to hide.
The butchers will call soon,
Smudged soils shall soak in my blood
So soon,
I will be with you again mother,
So soon.

© I K Nakueira

2 comments:

eizzy.k said...: wow...
sad poem yet full of spirit, its uplifting.

"They" (The butchers with merciless boots) may cut your flesh and break your bones but you wont let them crush your spirit, and kill your hope. You remain free in your mind despite being in hiding from "Them", and so they can not kill you, only set you free...and you will reunite with, mother earth, go back to the womb you came from, meet your maker...

it s beautiful well put together piece.
i love it.
bless...; February 02, 2009
I K Nakueira said...: thanx,great analysis, 'surgical' to be precise.Thanx; February 03, 2009