Ernest Elliot Daka Poems

We were finally on the island
It was mid-afternoon of a bright warm day
For the low altitude of the lake island
The day was good and deceptively cooler
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My sleeping beauty wakes
My love is at last rekindled
And my whole body comes to life again
Oh how I long to be with my angel
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The Smile In My Heart!

When you put a smile on the face of a fellow man
You'll have done good, but that smile is like a name on sand
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And she asks me why I like going jogging
Well, it's like this and it's like that!
You see, outside the air is fresh
As I run, the air whistle past me, so fresh
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The dark little man has an infectious wide smile
Even at one year, he has a way of melting me
I call his name and he utters a heee! and smiles
Who taught him that, I muse, hilariously!
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The morning has come again
We can start worrying about it
It brings with it, responsibilities
And there are challenges too
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There were many faces around
Handsome men of stature
Even pretty women of class
And I too, a man among men
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He was ten and looked bare
Together our age was twenty-eight
He could neither read nor write
His teeth, he treasured and kept white
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What I'd give to read her mind
To know what she thinks
When she looks away from me
To know the body's language
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A WRONG TURN

I know a star that strayed
She took a wrong turn
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