Moses Kainwo Poems

The rain showered a cold on the pews
With no leaking roofs and no cracked dews
Like a rare ghost to haunt the saints here
And fever found lodging in my spine
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River Mano Mano River
Love meanders along a river course
Gossip here will only seal the peace
A man of rivers will only rev a boat
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19. All your glories, O Africa, are perishing on your heights.
O, how did this happen?

20. Publish it not in the streets of your exploiters,
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you can see the stars ministers mini mini mini
gliding high above the clouds and clouds and clouds
it is the way of servants who excel in the spirit
where base things dare not stain their glows and glows and glows
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The teacher opened her mouth
And spoke
The children opened their ears
And heard
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Curiously curiously curiously
He looked at the water curiously
The madman
He looked at the river curiously
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You may not like my race
You may not take my face
But if you spot the goal
And would not mind the road
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dear mr sun-core
hold

i know your lenses are blind to
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The Pastor cried each time his Queen giggled
But his Queen laughed to solve the old riddle

It was dark for eyes but not for yielding limbs
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Moses had a mother
Who sat by the fire
And told the old story
Of days when she was stony
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