A Chief Star Leads From Behind Poem by Moses Kainwo

A Chief Star Leads From Behind

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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

On the plateau of service in trends
The cold crosses the paths of the fence
In snippets of memorabilia
Whether in pews or school books of sort

You will know the footprints of action
The melodious cries of compassion
Once a caring soul passes manners
Like judgement from mediocres in jest

I touched it too in a bout of leads
The star that scratched with meteoric speed
The night sky of pestilence in vogue
While the earth cheered raising mangled fingers

So you see I too can dream like King
Who mellows with daytime spectacles
While I count the stars in the night here
The night with new character gallows

I had a dream then and still do dream
Erect a plaque to say no star streamed
When it was darkest or most gloomy
Except in ideas beyond amends

Sure a tenor out there will sing bass
Yet the bass in here will not chant bass
For when we are not in we are in
And when we are not out we are out

New generations will rise in here
To carry the mantle that dropped
From hands of stars that did not hurry past
Or necks of white-necked birds that wry grin

I don’t mind singing a solo dirge
Or blowing the horn announcing birth
But somehow the world must know of it
That a chief star now leads from behind

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kesav Easwaran 10 July 2009

good poem with a purpose...you convey your thoughts melodiously...thanks Moses...10

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Moses Kainwo

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Freetown, Sierra Leone
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