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CRIMSON STAIN
CRIMSON STAIN
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Brighter than day, the sunlight reflects
Making each of them gleam
Individually & set into necklaces
Clear, beautiful stones in a storefront window.
The shine alone was enough
To bring you inside the store for a closer look.
The counter clerk eagerly
Shows you his vast collection of shiny stones
On display.
Only one of them ca...
Tuesday 27th February 2024 6:52 pm
Hello Goodbye
A rosy glow adorns this morning’s sky,
today, we regulars pay our respects,
tomorrow, with an angel I will play.
A quiet bloke, he’d been around the world,
of Africa and engineering spoke,
of vintage motorbikes, and automatic cars,
the pros and cons of smart-or not-TVs,
of pacemakers, the NHS, and stuff,
and never took his little trilby off,
a different one from time to ...
Thursday 1st February 2024 9:35 am
"The Soul of Freedom"
"The Soul of Freedom"
The morning on our creation day
Had the charming face of a young cheetah
But ran in the pace of a snail.
Who would have known that the trophy of independence
That we fell over eachother in celebration of
Will tighten again the locks of slavery yet the more?
We cried of faces white as the moon
But not anymore, not anymo...
Thursday 1st October 2020 6:08 am
UGANDA
With its deep red soil
High high up on the equator
A great green spectacular land
The Nile rapids plummet north
40 million farmers living life
Blue skies, rainy seasons
Lions, giraffes complete Safari’s
Crazy Kampala where life is slowly fast
Country roads where more people walk
Where Boda’s rule, trucks puff and smoke
Mburo with Lodges on land is...
Thursday 14th December 2017 11:13 am
Outrage
This stick named Outrage
Is what stirs the masses
Rousing them in anger
Rail against injustices
Wolves in Yellowstones
Gangs in L.A.
Genocide in Africa
Trouble in Latvia, or
Slums in Mumbai.
And while anger is better than fear
This focus remains on the problems
And so the problems remain.
How then to drop that stick,
And let our focus be guided
To solutions?
To set our sails instead
...
Saturday 31st December 2016 7:51 am
Big Fish in Masvingo Lake
There’s a big fish at the bottom of Masvingo lake.
Old, fat, and ugly, it won’t be caught
I glimpsed it once, on the end of my hook;
Thought I had it, saw its cruel, fierce eyes
The fishing isn’t good in the lake.
The big old one has eaten almost all the others.
People still come to try and catch it
Maybe if the lake dries up
It will be found there at the bottom
Wriggling, squ...
Tuesday 15th December 2009 9:46 am
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