Mandela
Hmm - should perhaps have posted this one earlier today - Nelson Mandela reached 91 today. This sonnet was written for his 90th last year
Mandela
Mandela, with such quiet dignity
Strides the world stage with real style
One man who doth have true integrity
Long tenured in jail, now freed for some while
True statesmen are rarer than hens teeth friend
He kept true to his life beliefs once out
Now this man celebrates life yet again
Ninety years old and still walking about
Will ever we see a greater man breathe
More resilient spirits that wont bend
Majestic in stature he will not leave
This world unmarked when we reach his life end
Three cheers for the man who freedom defines
One without peers here in our present times
(c)Rhumour
July 2008
