Category: Poetry
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Spell of Charm
Spell of Charm©Atwine Mugisha – 22/08/2022 I would pluck out my eyesIf only my heart sawThen would you knowI own not my eyesBut my heart is wholly mineI’d happily be blind to allBut only your beauty My heart to forever see. But our hearts don’t seeYet our eyes… just keep seeing! Entebbe Poetry Club
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Poetry Is The Bitch
Y’all think she’s bae?NahShe’s a bitch, a badass bitchShe’s this goddess of a mistressI fuckin can’t get over.Bae is home, butThis bitch fuckin reads meSays just what I want to hearKnows when I wantWhen I don’tWhat I wantWhat I don’tKnows where I wantWhere I don’tHow I wantHow I don’tDamn this bitch!Always there; needs no callNo…
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Pretty, Petty and a Pity
I know her to be the happiestI know she gives the best receptionI know she’s most selfless.I know her to be the best listenerCaring is her exclusiveForgetting, her naivety!And because she isBeautiful, Loving, Humane and Constant!So, she now isPretty, Petty and a Pity!Happy International Women’s Day! ©Atwine Mugisha – 8/03/2022
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A Night Crash
Seeing her, my head noddedCatching me, her lips stretchedHer mouth snowedI smiled just back‘You’re staring…,’ said she‘I am sorry could you move aside’‘Oh my! I am so sorry…!’Shy, she danced aside‘I am sorry too, damn!I thought you and your beauty were inseparable!’Just like that, it’s a late WCW!©Atwine Mugisha – 22|09|2021
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I Shan’t Take You to The States
I will bring myself miseryIf men see you in MissouriInstead of MississippiI’ll show you the falls at SipiThe local goat nyama chomaAin’t there in OklahomaI know you’re my RainbowBut it won’t be ColoradoI’ll show you sightly AfricaMy African Queen! ©Atwine Mugisha – 02|09|2021
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Forever
In the beginning, I wishedThen I dreamt, I prayedTo God to bring you to me.Then I waited, and waitedThen I waited, and waitedAnd waited, and waited.And one day, it happenedI saw my wish, my dreamMy prayer to God answeredNow, it’s no more waitingI am counting, we’re countingAnd we shall be the firstTo count and tell…
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I Don’t Want To Go To School Today
I don’t want to go to schoolFirst day, I would look a fool!Maybe after a weekThat’s not considered weakBut my parents won’t allowMe to stay at home on it I vowSo, I have to fake I’m ailingMaybe then they’ll get trailing To our family doctor and complainWhy a phone aint yet in his domainAnd by…
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Why Kill Me With Love?
How do you forgetSomeone you have told‘I love you’?How do you care less forSomeone you have told‘I love you’?How do you miss notSomeone you have told‘I love you’?How do you talk not to Someone you have told‘I love you’?How do you ignoreSomeone you have told‘I love you’?How do you lie toSomeone you have told‘I love…
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A Poet’s Appraisal
If the poem was but fluThen would it spread throughAll world beyond oceans blueAnd if it sank in people but only a clueThis earth would no more be a human zooFor their manners would be to the ground cast by glueAnd all would be assembled in queueTo pay allegiance to only youFor having caught your…
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LOVE SIMULATIONS
A heavy head and burdened heartI write these lines of hurtTo see you in painLeaves me in much greater painSo I hold my pen to pen down our pain. I shut my shy eyesAnd all I see are liesIt may be you, it may be meI don’t knowBut the status quo,I don’t want any more.…
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MY NATIONAL EMBLEM
I never intend to always fail youBut rather to make it up to youDon’t think that I forget that I owe youActually I wish to pay back to youI wish to say thank you.Permit me then to say sorry to youFor I wish to be a friendA good friend, but not a mere neighbourBut how…
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TWIST OF FATE
When schooling was still anewTeaching was then a realistic viewTo be learned was then treated with senseEveryone desired to make ignorance an absence‘Master’ here, ‘Master’ thereEverywhere masters met with careTeaching became a source of prideTo their pride, masters had to abide. When schooling day by day came aroundTeaching day by day became more soundStudents at…
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EVE
Eve, my childEve, my daughterEveLook not with sympathy at herNor loathing at himRefrain from the rantHide your shame, away….What a disgrace for womanhood!Are you not even ashamed to move your tongue in public?What nonsense you sayWhat nonsense you becomeTo converge and engage in quarrels of blameGo, my dear, don’t talk, don’t read, don’t write…Off to…
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A Memory Farfetched
Detestable! You sayAbominable! You meanYou just can’t imagine itDoing what she did and doesWe too follow what you sayAnd do so with more spiteWe wonder at her shameAnd think her madMaybe she is, maybe she’s notWho knows?Besides, the fact is her cause is just. Amidst the fog and mist they watchPity is all they wish…
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The Application – Part II
Hey babe – your animationSummons my attractionI know it’s a confrontationForgive my invasionPlease give your attentionLooking at your eyes, I get a concussionYou drive me into confusionMake this not a botherationI have an honest intentionFirst wait to questionAllow me make an introductionI’m from humble conceptionKind, humorous – my characterisationVirtuous, principled – another descriptionFaithful, loving –…
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A NEW FOUND FRIEND
Jes, how everyone longs for you Young and old, here and there Then and now and all the time You will be the crave for all the ears. Jes, you are my good news Jes, you restore my sight Jes, you resurrect my vision Jes, you accomplish my plans Roads are never straight,JesGoing round this…
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VISION IN UNISON
All has changed And all that was and was about to be, Now is not, but for one thing I still believe, it shall or may still be! All my thoughts were mere fallacies And now I have learnt Not only do I say what I mean But I also mean what I say. It’s…
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FACING THE JURY
Gathered here todayTo cease this fray Recited by Flora amidst her dismay; And to this bench The accused professed his defence Man pled guilty! Flora here cries Man breaks his vows Exchanged at their union In the beginning – the paradise of Eden Flora was to yield to Man’s care But now she’s to die…
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Sons of Africa, Do You Own Africa?
(A translation of Bene Afrika, Mwine Afrika, from Runyankore by the author) Sons of Africa, do you own Africa?Answer Oh! AfricaIf you indeed own AfricaWhat then do you have that is African?From the bregmaTo the ankleCan you prove you are a son of Africa? Sons of Africa, do you own Africa?The hair; wigs you do…