The Hare And His Wife Poem by Tony Adah

The Hare And His Wife



Grandma gathered us
Under the pear tree
Bathed in pale moonlight
The silvery moonlight casting
Its shadow on our expectant faces
She would be reluctant
To start the craft of her tales
Until dead silence reigned
In the vicinity of our moonlit tree.

Grandma started with
'Once upon a time'
And we echoed time time!
There was a smart
And slyly hare.
He married the most
Beautiful wife in the world

He was in great amity
With the tortoise who was
A very wealthy farmer.
But as guileful as he was
He did trespass in his friend's farm
Without telling him
There in the farm
He sat loading some yams
In a big basket never knowing
He was sitting on a mound of terminarium
The termites made a meal
Of his pants and his ass
And red it become
He could hardly unseat himself
From this mound.

We shuffled our feet
In adjustment of our tired bodies
And grandma stopped
Until calm returned to the under tree
She returned to her craft
'Then the hare......'
Abandoned his load
In his friends farm
And went home in shame
Direct to his bed.
When the wife came to the bed
She saw the red ass
Dumbfounded more as
Her husband could not
Give any reason for the sudden change.

The wife gatherd the dowry
And off she deserted the husband
But he as smart as he was
Ran through the bush path
And appeared before his wife
'My friend's wife what
Is the matter with you '? He asked
'It is not well with my husband
His ass has turned red' she replied.
The hare bursted into laughter
And showed his friend's wife
His own ass which was also red.
This season it is so with every hare,
He told her
He appeared to her
Like this for three times or more
And she made a u -turn
Back to her husband's house
And saw him on his bed feigning illness

Grandma saw the sleep
In some grandchildren's eyes
Sniffed her snuff
Rose up with trinkets
In her ankles
And we stampeded like cattle
In front of her to rest
For another day's tale.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: art
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