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Poetic Smiles

 

 

 

Poems of 2017

 

 

 

By Ishmael Mwangangi

 

 

 

 

 

 

To find eternity, lift YOu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

www.ishmaelyankee.webs.com/poems www.poeticsmiles.wordpress.com http://allpoetry.com/Ishmaelyankee

 

 

 

 

Copyright © 2016 by Ishmael Mwangangi.

 

Prayer for 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This book is written to be informative and entertaining as well as educative. It involves a volume of poetry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright © 2016 by Ishmael Mwangangi.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

ABSTRACT

I

TABLE OF CONTENTS

III

LIST OF POEMS

 

1.1 Poetic Smile

4

1.1.1 Life fever

5

1.1.2 To my unborn

7

1.1.3 Love in Time

9

1.1.4 Got True like A Dream

10

1.2 For If I Don’t

11

1.2. Wake

12

1.2.2 Goodbye Yesterday

13

 

1.2.3 Rebirth 14

 

1.3 More Days True love

15

1.3.1 It’s Done Everyday

16

1.3.2 How Many Times…

18

1.3.3 Can We Go Back

19

1.3.4 No matter what...

 

We stand strong…

20

1.4 This is how a story goes

21

1.5 Anger

22

1.6 Psalms 2 , part II

23

1.7 Feel me

24

1.8 Love

26

1.9 Am Only Human

27

2.0 Benediction for 2016

28

 

2.1 About Ishmael Mwangangi 29

 

 

Poetic Smile

 

 

 

I spend a lot of time making lines rhyme

 

Like when am hurt and am in for a crime

 

I feel a cold shift from my heart to my mind

 

But i try all pieces like its justice to combine

 

 

 

I hate it that way'...this is how i get trapped in lines every time

 

Its unthinkable and funny for a poet still in the sixth line

 

It‟s an option to let go and write another poem

 

But when it‟s done, it makes me smile.

 

 

 

“Were we in deep silent? Its like how right you have been.” He said to him

 

“ look beyond what its seems.” Is it true that we lived and probably died?

 

It‟s a LIFE FEVER

 

See these bright lights from the sunlight They rise to both the dark and the shiny Another moment I guess it‟s

 

another chance Not the first, the second or the last

 

Its like an adventure Though some of we lost We had hope and rose

 

 

 

Its time perhaps,

 

The events that some say divided us

 

I cannot say

 

 

 

 

But we made from same places

 

I did my best and that was great from you

 

They played their part too

 

 

 

 

But who am I to judge?

 

I dried to my expectation so they failed

 

My father says ”and make yourself good, so you go higher and quicker than your way down.

 

You make yours ways straight on how smart is the progress.

 

“Look he made is head blank and that‟s how he grew see “ just as how you learn to play,

 

you will slowly learn a new language of this living”

 

The world no longer needs fiction,

 

 

 

 

like when he sent his young son. He then said, “come with me” He changed the version,

I guess it not too poetic?

 

 

 

 

Suppose in mind you have Abrahams Son, so was I to practice?

 

 

 

Watching between what we want to be and what we see within

 

“you will never be one”

 

I guess that‟s the best message from these words

 

 

To my unborn

 

Here I am with my heart out,

 

I think of these nights so dark but transparent with light

 

So i close my eyes and I see nothing

 

Then I give it to you

 

Its much safer between these syllables

 

 

 

 

Son, these words reflect the night so light up and read them again.

 

 

 

 

Here is what I think my future belongs

 

Not to you but empty without you

 

When I stand from far, look back from another view

 

And still there stands my life in line,

 

With some little percentage of you from my blood

 

I see tomorrow from another experience

 

which is nothing or some little worth if I think more about it

 

 

 

 

Maybe the doctors were right

 

Maybe the these people were just right too

 

 

 

When we are sick we lose ourselves to another self

 

And that‟s the pain Soul is my only fear, Oh, my mind too

A palace of a dreamer

 

There is more love than giving out

 

Still hits more having an expectation in return …

 

 

 

It‟s true we did go against all but am stuck packing my whole baggage of thoughts

Son …...I do not seem like

 

“I thought I knew the way by default.. But by how right I was..”

 

 

 

Daddy tells you

 

“I know who I am and there is a path in this journey to take you home” Sometimes when I watch the stars…I

 

ask myself if you be thinking the same way Your mom and I got some few times and hope you learn from

 

them the average way Times you like it thinking they going to bust out after time

 

…only you end up bursting on them

 

 

 

Times you do some things in mind everyone have to like it

 

... only end up hating on them.

 

Times you lost control over everything in sight

 

Times you got a better option in mind

 

…only in time you realise you were all right and wrong at the same time

 

 

 

Times you offer yourself as an hero

 

…by saving the already saved on some other side

 

 

 

Times we think we did it fairly

 

… But we broke some hearts in our past love lives

 

… And someone is fantasizing a quick revenge within our curves

 

 

 

These are the times in our thoughts when we are real.

 

 

 

Always forward “only a step with hope” that‟s the direction God gave us

 

Never fighting to show how right we were….

 

They can read all books but your mind got a different language

But NO!

 

Don‟t get wishing and wanting, Wanting greed’s getting, Getting greed’s spending.

 

 

Everything we won, I won and your mom won, But failed when I traded money with truth,

 

So I went silent like am shy with no response and my pockets full.

 

 

 

Love in Time

 

Trapped in between worlds again She was a child and i was a child again Empty tanks but here comes the rain

 

To feel and fill like hearts in the brain

 

 

I promise to never but it‟s really no fun lying without pain

 

Sweet like a drug but harder when taken away

 

 

 

Its love but instead you keep your head up and feel okay Sometimes when your heart is clean and dark you do

 

not see another day And you smile because it‟s simple and move on another way

 

Beautiful, black and complicated like some wet light clay,

 

 

Could you unreal it because today sounds like yesterday?

 

Oh

 

Slowly, so I does hurt

 

don’t don’t unplug don’t …. don’t

 

 

Take a little careful and slow

 

Its a night at a time

 

 

 

Young of love but growing righteous line by line

 

These shillings, feelings and poetry you know time never understands

 

But if it‟s about love then am ready to shine

 

it‟s a journey

 

 

 

“there got to be time likes this”, she says it every-time Whatever happens I still will be holding your ground

 

Just same as you hurt me and never tried

 

Then fate unearthed it and we opening the door on the other side

 

 

 

and that’s how we grow with time

 

 

 

Each day love in time

 

 

 

 

Got True Like A Dream

 

Look the sky's'

 

Beyond the blue and white surfaces.

 

Through it is a white cotton statue,

 

The hungry wind dies...

 

but after dusting my eyes,

 

Am not blind,

 

Am not dark as i was

 

I know it‟s my skin that betrayed me, Different but same taste,

 

The pain that got my nerves,

 

....is as black as my skin

 

But that really made me strong

 

So i got true like a dream

 

 

 

 

 

 

For If I Don’t

 

 

 

It‟s my sons vision

 

I see him sit deeply staring at me,

 

I see him murmur, but I hear the screams

 

 

Am I wrong?

 

 

I see my blood in his eyes Screaming, whispering in my deep meditation

 

They say if its too deep its heaven sent

 

Am slowly falling to a victims fate

 

 

If I make it, its an escape Praises be to the sand and what‟s said And let it be from below

 

Am now sure I will be the next one to follow

 

Singing a revolutionary song

 

For if I don‟t, am not strong

 

 

Wake

 

Let‟s come, let‟s play its tit for tat

 

Yesterday we layed you tied on a white mat

 

Behind the hymn was anger brought to words

 

Behind the rhythm was a cloud coated with gods

 

'Was he right for her? Was she right for her'

 

Let face up‟ one of the olds said

 

 

Allah is the greatest, none of his mightiness we ever had

 

All in one we had it like a lovely song

 

 

I thought we loved but Its now taking long

 

 

I did promise to be right but we were all wrong.

 

 

 

 

Goodbye Yesterday

 

I want to hide my face on these fairy days

 

I wish to stay indoors until I feel okay

 

I want to stay silent without any say

 

I wish to dance my body off my new tune Nay! Nay!

 

Oh, Is it not two months no pay?

 

I have to shake my head twice about my acts before I pray

 

 

I wish to sing it loud, let me go, let me stay

 

I want to get another lady; just today Not tomorrow or next week, Hey!

 

Can you please keep quiet, okay?

 

Hold on, I knew it, its Sunday

 

Oh mighty, I know I acted the wrong way

 

But I believed and did it all same while away

 

So good by yesterday

 

 

 

 

Rebirth

 

I talk in many faces

 

From meditation

 

Like someone guided by voices Whisper in smiles Murmuring in silence

 

Is that a spirit of tense? Finally, its out to the world

 

Now falls on my neighbours‟ senses

 

 

Am hungry and humble Though am not done in my thoughts My face talks it proud

Now in I break my soul to the ground

 

 

Deep below underneath Cover up my for-rotten pieces Is really my rebirth? Reincarnation; perhaps

 

Ever felt mad again?

 

 

That you ought to be drunk, smoke

 

 

And tie yourself or make yourself a believer?

 

 

More Days True love

 

Been two months since we met

 

Seems like a rising sun that will never set

 

Like how sweet it gets

 

Time goes' then i see you forget

 

Because the sweet road seems long

 

 

So i will take you real careful and slow

 

Now remember every step as we go

 

It‟s from me, so let it grow

 

I will live to love you if you see it as i saw..

 

I still love you

 

 

It’s Done Everyday

 

 

There aren‟t no reason things are this way.

 

My Momma told me I could wish to stay through anything if Magic made it

 

It‟s always been and my intend to stay.

 

So let me stay,

 

Why we live at these Times Where we do it Day to day

 

Preachers on the speaking of saints.

 

Writers, poets begging for changes.

 

I have a basket full of thoughts and they all taste the same,

 

Forgive

 

It‟s my Attitude.

 

Just realised am too much made of clay

 

See You can spend your whole life working for something, Just to have it taken away.

 

 

 

 

See me walking around pushing back my debts, Wearing pay checks

Like neck chains and mouth Grills, A poet, Music on mind

 

 

 

Talking about nothing not

 

My very heartbeat, My every little breath.

 

People Carrying their hurt, hatred, and weapons.

 

But at times a gunfire seems brighter than the sunshine.

 

Sometimes too a child‟s scream influences every dream

 

And a corrupt politician happen be