alexander opicho Poems

in my sleep, in the wee of yester-night
The dreams and visions came to me,
From the gods of my land, all the gods,
gods in command of prophecy and vision,
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The current protests by the jubilee members of parliament about ICC request to have President Uhuru Kenyatta attend in person the ICC status conference is misleading.
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Look! The state of Israeli has taken us to dark caves,
Left us hanging between western drones
And pious chauvinism of the Islamic state,
We only harvest terrorist bombs intermittently,
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Kenyans; don’t beg from visitors,
Nor show them your strain,
But welcome them with a song,
In matchless Pomp and gaiety,
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Very simple things,
Like wine and women
Or beggars around,
Make life to change,
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Ekhafu ya kamevele niyo ekamayanka elurende!
It goes a Bukusu saying, from Kenya,
It has it English equivalence as;
The most productive Milch- cow
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The Owl is standing on the baobab tree,
At the main gate of Port Harcourt,
Hooting, hooting and hooting;
In its harbinger of fate duties,
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Poets from all over the world are invited to submit their original poems to Mombasa poetry anthology 2016.These anthology is organized by the Kenyan society of poets and literary scholars. It is out of literary and cultural recognition of the historical fact that Mombasa and its environs is home man, it is an indisputable home to all types of people in all their capacities and stations. It is historically evident that, at least a European, an African, Asian, Indian, American, Australian or Chinese have a home in Mombasa. This has been the case from as early as 7 AD. When the Oman Arabs landed at the east African coast in the moon-son wind driven dhows.
This anthology will be published Kenya, as a print version latest by December 2016, under the title, ANTHEM OF HOPE. The anthology will have a collection of 2000 poems, written in English, or written in any other language but accompanied with a translation to English, each poet is allowed to submit three poems, a poem must not exceed 500 words, all poems must be submitted as one document of MS word attachment, the font types to be used are times Romans, the size is 12. The poem can be in any style without having creativity of the poet being decimated by traditional literary canonicity, but as long as the poem will be addressing and not limited to the following themes in relation to Mombasa;
1) Mombasa city, other towns Around Mombasa like Kisumayu, Lamu, Kibino, Hola, Mpeketon, Bamburi, Malindi, Watamu, Gede, Matsangoni, kilifi, Vipingo, Takaungu, Mtwapa, Shimo la tewa, Bamburi, Likoni, ukunda, wa, msambweni, lunga Lunga, Vanga, Shimoni, Tanga, msofala, Dar salam and Zanzibar, as well as Mariakani and Voi, taita, taveta and Arusha,
2) Mombasa people, The miji-kenda, arabs, European, bajuni, Indians, and any other in relation to Mombasa
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Death is a senseless thief,
Robbing the poor and forlorn ones,
Of whatever they do treasure most,
It has robbed me the gems in the voice
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Condolences,
Commiserations with you
Dear and Lovely people of Paris,
Worthy and estimable sons of France,
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