kelvin karani Poems

today my mother died
unapreciated by those she bore
at her departure they cried
for they never saw there mother before,
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FOR DEDAN KIMATHI
(18.02.2009. -52 YEARS LATER)

Liberator
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Thoughts flood my mind
Questions turn things downside up
The rains of uncertainty
Join to form turbulent rivers
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when today turns into past
and my poetic hairs turn black
and my pen refuses to last
and my creative bones crack;
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By Karani Kelvin 15/09/2008

Last night was fresher’s night
But that perhaps counted not
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I share your pain friends
Though we be from different lands
Speaking different tongues
Living different lives
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what one remembers
is not the excitement of the moment
but the consequences
the aftermath of the passing reality.
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though you elude me
defy my not intricate charms
code your waves subtly
my antennae is doing the rounds
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the friendly sun
that once smiled on us
is disappearing behind
the clouds of solitude.
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the elusive mirage
was my lifetime dream.
its trembling beauty
drew me to the horizon
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