kelvin karani

in the forest of life
a hunter kept searching
for a prey to stalk
and salt for a meal or two.
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On that day the sun rose a little late
Or so I thought
A dark cloud lazily sailed around it
Making the sun shine grey
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From the outset I must state
Old men (especially these!) and (some) women
Are not in me to hate
And thunderstorm I pray them not to strike
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Get my children from school
When you get home, to my place,
Take mama watoto to the saloon
And come back here to take
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To be a ghetto child
Is a challenge few surmount
For many are they who
Succumb to the temptations in the ghettos
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At KICC bitter words were traded
The media was asked to leave
The police came; then the barrage
And in a secret office came results
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A NAKED POEM
A naked poem
Struts in my mind.
With a body so fecund
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The rain raps

On my humble roof
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STEREOTYPICAL MAN

Man says,
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Just the other day Mr. president
Begged billions for the hungry
All that money will be spent
To feed the hungry country
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mother drags her bony mass
the winds of uncertainty
buffeting her from all sides.
above her the ominous cloud
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OUR AFRICA *for David Diop, ‘Africa’
This is Africa,
your Africa
With an arc of a back
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No more
Taking of silly slogans
Of change from the corrupt politicians
We need statesmen and stateswomen
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So much suffering on the land
Dying of hunger the children are
The old too cannot withstand
The famine and deaths
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into a dustbin
everything goes
from dust to papers
everything unwanted
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My house is ablaze
Set on fire by my own kids
Who are fire playing with fire
But are arrogantly so
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Where is the fire
That burnt in freedom fighters
Making them selfless
Dying for our independence
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Children are taking years
Pursuing an education which
Defeats their little minds
However old they don’t flinch
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Say what you want to
Write whatever you will
For what the August House is about to do
Will entrench media freedom
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We are travelers
Journeying into the future.
We stand at the bus stage of life
Inside the bus love
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