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Winter Blues: Come My sweet charity (memoir from Raula's Winter Blues Cabin)

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BOB   

umetuleteya Mzee Ojwang tena? :eek: afadali Sergeant Waryaa kuliko huyo Kalenjin, kwa sababu mambo ya Arap Too na Arap Vulani imekwisha sasa ama bado hujasikiya?

 

Salaalah Muhammad wacha nimone Papawako alafu utaona :mad: .

 

Peace,Love & Unity.

 

PS. Can Mzee Ujwong swim kweli ya'ni ukimpeleka ZanZibar... :( .

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raula   

a haiku to moi ;)

 

keep smiling galfriend

salute your dignity like sgt.waryaa

sizzle your sanctuary for it is getting "hot"

sooth your mind sensually

get sanctified before it supersedes.

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raula   

^^^ :D umenikumbusha manzi mmoja niliyemwona jana-ye na beste wake(demu jungu)wamepigilia kiturkana tradition(the whole deal) ala icon_razz.gif manzi tulipowasiliana akanitell ati ye ni native wa NAROK :D

 

N'wayz-nafikiri mambo ni mos mos eh!ok back to mashairi

 

 

Like the porous rock beneath the sea

I permeate grief and sorrow partially

Creeping with a lion’s prowess, I refuse

To surrender to the despair that is

Rotting beneath my air conditioned scent

Gleaming on the surface, but underneath

Turbulence…..torments…..tension……

I hold firm like the ladies styling mouse

Phony smiles I stress, but underneath it all

My air-conditioned shell is cracking…….

Guilt…...………………………………

 

 

This bullet proof soul that hugs my dignity...

Have I lost compassion for the lost souls?

Numbed by insidious worldly politics

That has nothing to do with my ancestral being

Nor my religious directives, nor my people’s humanity

Where is my daily dose of depression?

For the perished, for the wandering souls,

For the half-bullet-ripped-stuck-with-one-body-parts,

For the mothers with no family, the fatherless,

The one-child-left-behind family, the continuously raped

Psychologically, physically, and faithfully…….

Oh how much it hurts what I feel…….

Worse than a tooth ache, stings like a cobra’s venom

Tingles my spine…almost when about to experience a stroke

Guilt………………….guilty……………..

 

Blame me for I relax on my futon

Watching the world turn and get toasted

Melancholy, cold, mourning, mercy…I feel but

I ignore the reality by changing the channel

Chaos I watch, as the world tremors with destruction

I am compelled, I am driven, I am moved……..

Only to reach for the remote control…to change the channel

Consciously aware of my mental switches……

But I have memorized excuses like a guru

I only unleash them to cover my hidden truths….

Guilt………guilty ………..mortified I am………

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raula   

They pray for my comeback to the motherland

They ignore my rude commentary to our elders

They praise me because I live in the wonderland

They welcome my white-washed mentality

They ignore my half-naked body dressed in

Torn-outs, as I explain it’s the latest style in Vogue

They still hold me dear even when I ignore their

Early morning calls and nagging daily drama in motherland

They still hold me dear despite of my abandonment…why…

Because they plead for my esteemed dollars

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BOB   

Don't give them even ndururu :D . wanataka chapa yako huh?

 

Peace,Love & Unity.

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Pacifist   

Originally posted by BOB:

Don't give them even ndururu
:D
. wanataka chapa yako huh?

 

Peace,Love & Unity.

Man you are xasaad xasiidina xasaad una seme Ndururu kwa nini....come on mate don't advise her that....Raula

:D

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BOB   

Originally posted by Pacifist:

Man you are xasaad xasiidina xasaad una seme Ndururu kwa nini....come on mate don't advise her that....Raula
:D

Kumbe wewe unasikiya kiswahili? Allah, nime fikiri kama unajua kiZambiya na Malawi tu? lakini naku ulizaje umesha kula panya wewe, hata kuonja tu? kwa sababu nime sikiya huko zambiya watu wana kula panya?LooooooooooooooooL.

 

Pacifist, i know you are going to ask Raula what i just said and i know she's going to tell you a whole different story but believe me that is not what i said..i just asked you a simple question that you know of somuch about ;) .

 

Peace,Love & Unity.

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Pacifist   

Bob rafiki yangu I don't need to ask Raula I already know so beware oky I am watching you. Lakiin msemaji we nini na panya?? ewwwwwwwww come on bob I don't eat Panyas....Lakiini watu wa zambia.. :mad: :mad:

nime fikiri kama unajua kiZambiya na Malawi tu? Hapana najuwa kiswahili and Muzambiyani...

 

Am watching you

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BOB   

Watch Me But You Will Never See Me icon_razz.gif ..too many bodyguards around me :cool: .

 

The first time I've been to Zam I got the fright of my life after a kid tried to sell a "Fried" panya to me and I haven't eaten anything but fruits for the remaining two days I have been in Lusaka, even from the Somali restaurants, Eeeewwwww that was a really bad experience I've had in your country back then and I went back again in 04 but this time it was much better as I was with a friend who had a family there.

 

Raula..will kill us both :D .

 

Peace,Love & Unity.

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Pacifist   

^^^6

una fikiriya nyama choma :D halafu sawa saw Pole sana from now on beware...

 

Raula tafaruji poem yaku pole nima hijack your thread...its bob aziri ;)

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raula   

another from my winter blues cabin..

 

Have you seen snow white?

Turned black and blue

In her glazed crystal pasty land

Poor girl she has been through

Spring, summer, and autumn

Lonely lullabies of summer’s return

She is slipping deep

Into seasonal affective hysteria

The Norway pines are roofed

It’s winter out there!

Someone tell her.

 

A season that renders sensitivity

Exacerbates with the wind chill

……bitter freezing ………..

From the bare blue snow

As the cold rushes through

Your layers of clothing

Ripping your soul Piercing

Distressed to inhale

Dazed at the sight

Of vapor from exhalation

 

Snow fanatics rejoice

At the site of flurries

To them it a season filled

With many gift wrappings

It becomes a contest

Who can mold snow man?

Even better for Ice sculptor in Rice Park

Make the world glitter

From claimed existence

Ice……Ice baby.

 

For I

The winter is none other than

Bare dirt roads filled with

Bitter white-wash that

Turns the day hastily to night

Bites the ear and turns you

Blue from her

Helper called frostbite

That can seem like a mere

Diabetic whose learns that

Necrosis claimed OFF

His toes by amputation

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Raula MASHALLAH you write AMAZINGLY I love your use of language there is a sense of calmness of peace about it that slowly caresses the imagination, mashallah. Keep it coming, I am definitely looking forward to reading your next piece :D .

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