Poems About ""

The plow has savaged this sweet field
Misshapen clods of earth kicked up
Rocks and twisted roots exposed to view
Last year’s growth demolished by the blade.

I have plowed my life this way
Turned over a whole...

Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow.

All her bright golden hair
Tarnished with rust,
She that was young and fair
Fallen to dust.

Lily-like, white as...

This is not I. I had no body once–
only what served my need to laugh and run
and stare at stars and tentatively dance
on the fringe of foam and wave and sand and sun.
Eyes loved, hands reached for me, but I was gone
on my own...

It was no clean cut —
carving you out of my heart,
for you came out
with little bits of me.

But you're like a tumor,
that grows ever more
the more I cut.

But how can I keep you,
when you sting—so...

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous illusion!—
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of a new life
that I have never...

Come live with me, and be my love;
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks
By...

If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.

Time drives the flocks from field to fold
When Rivers rage and Rocks grow...

Ndoa jamani ndoano, mwanamwali sikimbie
Nimeshaona watano, si usemi msikie
Kuigaiga mifano, mbio mbovu mtulie
Mambo mazuri rafiki, upesi si mwendo wake

Ndoa jamani ndoano, ilo na chambo pembeni
Yavutia kwa maono, ushoboke...

Three times I had the lust to kill,
To clutch a throat so young and fair,
And squeeze with all my might until
No breath of being lingered there.
Three times I drove the demon out,
Though on my brow was evil sweat. . . .
And...

Who will sing the song
That woke us up every morning
The blue bird chirps a melody
Sweet as it seems, we hear an elegy
The sun rises in the East
But it's not a new dawn
Just another day to be withdrawn
Whoever finds the...

Siku nyingi natamani, udurusu ya moyoni
Hino zito ya uzani, niitoe mtimani
Ujuwe sina utani, ninapokuita hani
Siku niloitamani, leo dhahiri machoni

Jamani ninatamani, moyo ngekua kitabu
Ungefungua zamani, ewe waangu...

Amuka wenzangu, Sauti yaita
Yasije machungu, zuia utata
Umuombe Mungu, kwema kujikita
Na ndipo mkoko, waalika ua

Ninawausia, kesho si ahadi
Kifo chanukia, twafata wa jadi
Ndio yetu njia, hatuna zaidi
Na ndipo mkoko,...