How The Taste Of Palmwine Nearly Spoilt Friendship Poem by Tony Adah

Twosome ones went to tap palmwine
On this day it threatened to rain
Lonesome said they wait until
It ceased to rain
His friend said no one knew when it will stop to rain
Lonesome insisted they must go
His friend sat down and couldn't move
Twosomes waited until it was late
Then they went to tap.

They came back to cross a monkey bridge
Where they saw a casket lying on the sticks, fearful
They stumbled and fell into the stream
Until the men who left the casket there
Came back with the light they borrowed
To enable them cross with the casket at night.

Twosomes quarrelled and grumbled
Inside the water and when they saw
The casket owners in the shadow of the light
They ran out of the water further into the bush.