alexander opicho Poems

I have been reading the old copy of Saturday Nation, a week end edition of the daily nation in Kenya. It was published some weeks ago. It has some enticing feature stories that have made me to reflect on a certain family values in Africa. The three feature
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My humanity is devoid of piety
But time has come for it to beguiled
Into green harvesting of inchoate faith
That strong in the fibre and the fabrics
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And is true she is my otherness
But not my alter ego as you may think,
I am her strength, but she is my weakness
I am her herculean device, but she is my Achilles hill,
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My heart has gone out for all families on the street
That came out of the erstwhile street boys and girls
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Alexander K Opicho
(Eldoret, Kenya; aopicho@yahoo.com)

Kenya; the begotten daughter of your poor mother
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Homage to the late poet; Kofi Owonor


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Homage to the late poet; Kofi Owonor
By
Alexander K Opicho
(Eldoret, Kenya; aopicho@yahoo.com)
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Alexander K Opicho
(Eldoret, Kenya; aopicho@yahoo.com)

Forgive to be forgiven don’t forgive after you condemn
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The leopard and the lion chose to become friends,
For they were all proud of claws on their paws
They each glorified one another for their mighty,
Ability to live on meat of other fauna throughout a year,
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For all of them, greatness ekes not on goodness,
but on mysterious and spectacular humility,
semitism cradled from epileptic Tehra,
Hebrewism from Abrahamic despair,
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