Monday, February 17, 2014

Killamanjaro


Dark urges mixed with passions' flare:

my relapses come frequently recently

as seen by my foreboding fumaroles

Mawenzi on the right and Shira on the left:

the demon and the angel extinct on either shoulder

Kibo: hardheaded with ice and inactive

but my body is hot and bothered and pressured

Molten moments create wanton waves

that at last flip the lid and it all spills out

leaving countrysides and towns languishing in lava

with the sun's answer as to why concealed in billowing ash

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You'll view this on TV in a faraway land when my

caldera's collapsed further and I'm half a day dormant


Thursday, February 6, 2014

Black History


I am descended from pharaohs

I am wild but royal from the chin up

I slept in the shadows of pyramids

I spent a sleepless night swirling in a Sea of Reeds

I was sold by my fellow man into foreign familiarity

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Spent sleepless days parting seas of cotton and cane

Dogs at my heels

Sleepwalked for freedom through locust-plagued darkness

Dogs at my heels

Spent summer days cool as hoses parted my clothes

Dogs at my heels

Marched for freedom with my fellow man on the Mall

Dogs at my heels

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Wild, royal, chin up, crawling success' pyramid

Looking eastward to Egypt's ancient wonders in ruin

Each effort as ephemeral as the last