kelvin karani Poems

Bang! Bang! Bang!
The bullets rang
Tearing the silent night
Like an arrow through a prey
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OF POETS, PRIESTS & POLITICIANS

My lines lie there, impotent
Meaningless monologue to disinterested listeners
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I read about MLK junior
His dreams in Birmingham and on the streets
I followed the words and tone clear
Still I hear his cry for a just society I his s[speeches
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MY LIFE MY SUCCESS
Hi God,
I know,
Please don’t…
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I was born a hard worker
Toiling to get everything better
Crying whenever it got tough
Shedding tears of struggling
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(11/01/10)

From worlds apart
Time ate all distance
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In my dream,

The future leaders
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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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You don’t have to be old

To know that without the basics,
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