.... A phoenix flies

A Phoenix Flies

It soared high in its prime

As it aged it was less brisk

And then it fell in the ruins

Whence the fire was lit

Burning, it turned to ashes

Piled like a dump in a discarded land

Then the season of flight was at hand

And from the ashes rose with much zest

A bird big and gifted with wings

That fluttered and scattered the ashes

And up it shot ala a sky king

The welcoming skies shedding a little drizzle

To fizzle out the thirst on earth

And, for a time, the ruins were hidden by supple sprouts


Kawive,
29th June 2015

SHIDA ... in remembrance of Shida Salum, Mbunge la Katiba, TZ

She was called Shida, not on purpose, just a name
Her mother may not have known
Though fate might have shown
That she was bound to follow her name

She came from a country which was not a country
For the question of Zanzibar has not been answered
And we know it’s not a question
For it is Tanzania

And when she was selected to join the Constitution making team
Little did she know that she would die
And she will be dead long before the vote
In June it was that she died

Yet when the vote came in September
She voted “YES” as was destined
For she was thus inclined
As the doyens of the Party so determined

And she was thus be consigned
To make a constitution for her country
A true hero
Of her shida country

UtuTekelezi: on child protesters

https://www.facebook.com/kawive#UtuTekelezi: on child protesters

on child protesters

So, who apparently is the "owner" of the land that the children were being teargassed at? Your guess is as good as mine...a high flying elected "leader" of this esteemed country...

can they be identified by name? surely, you must have come from Mars...the land is "owned" by a trust under a receiver company owned by a group of companies whose domicile is Cayman post office etc etc...

so what is my take: teargas all children to the sky!!! who are they? they should know people!!

and those activists?

...idlers, no gooders...arrest them, take them to court for not knowing who runs this country, and give them a bond equal to half the price of the land...i mean how dare they mobilise children?

what was their intention? to create juvenile delinquents? don't they know we have already given the children laptops? why do children who have laptops, ipads, tablets need a field?...

this is not apartheid South Africa...and we can not have another http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/people.php?id=65-251-97

acceptance

I am in total acceptance of the issues that have caught up with me ...

this is because i should have known, had i wisdom, of their eventual coming

it is also because i should have run away, had i the sense of wariness of a gnu

it is also because i would have build my fences, had i the understanding, that it would become necessary

it is also because i should have known of its coming had i listened to the elders

so i totally and unreservedly accept my fate ...