Hannington Mumo Poems

Neither the ornate marbles nor the embellished monuments
Of loot-glutted commanders-in-chief shall outlive this rhyme;
Not the rose-smelling sonnets of William Shakespeare
Nor the natty lines of Edgar Poe and Wordsworth so sublime,
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I never knew it would be possible
Because I had lost all the surest hope,
Charming Mary had trashed my budding optimism
And my ambitions dwindled in a steady slope.
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It's wonderful evening, and at last
The crowning of the beauty of being...
It is not in human flair to command,
As mortals don't owe living anything!
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A big heart is never an accident
For good can never be done with a bad intent.

Philanthropy is not an impulse
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(THE BEGINNING LETTERS OF THE LINES MAKE THE TITLE, ''KUDOS BARACK OBAMA'')

Kenya feels ennobled to celestial heights,
Utter pride prevails and every heart delights,
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Kerfuffle and ado forever in you are an endless wonder;
Ever blazing shall be your eerie splendor;
Naysayers cannot quash the benedictions that the Almighty on you said
Years upon years before the foundations of the earth were laid;
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Alone I lie upon this cold floor
For they say I was found on the wrong side of the law;
I’m cut from kith and kin,
Though I’m sure I’ve done no sin.
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The year is two thousand and fifteen.
I have trodden the earth for nearly three decades;
Living life the pompous style of a teen
Unaware of the seasoning throes of age.
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Turning and turning around the same confined place,
Every day a replica of the previous and the next;
Every night growing darker and frightening more,
Puzzles popping up in their perplexing best;
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Our love’s long day appears to have no end in sight,
And the din of our kisses reverberates to the bliss of eternities;
Yet our love is by Nature constrained to last for a blink
And our kisses are but mere short-lived vanities.
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