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Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe

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Poem "The Knocking Woodpecker":
- written October 1992
- published April 3, 2009
- viewed 21 times

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»Emerging Images«
»End of Time«
»Fading Hope«
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»Hopelessness«
»If you turn the pages...«
»In The Name Of Freedom«
»Legend Brother«
»Let it not be said then (an English sonnet)«
»Life's Order«
»Listen«
»Loneliness«
»Love, My Friends (an English sonnet)«
»More Blessings«
»Mother Africa«
»Mothers, Women, Wives«
»No more«
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»Old Man«
»On Saying Goodbye«
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»Our Golden Girl«
»Political Condoms«
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»Sing Our Song«
»Street Child«
»Sweet Bondage«
»Take The Bull By The Horns«
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»The Prison I'm Not In«
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»The Knocking Woodpecker«

by Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe

I am the nonentity poet-
a prodigy of poetry,
a voice in the wilderness,
a pest in the ear of humanity!

I am the unheeded songster-
whose sonorous voice's never been heard,
whose meaning's imbued in doubt,
whose tendentious verses intrigue the mind!

I am the unknown voice-
that echoes on mountain sides
like the woodpecker's knock, knock, knock!

I am the incessant voice
that's barely audible
to human conscience
that's already burdened by heaps of rubbish.

I am the one to whom your ears're plugged
with balls of putrifying foreign shit
shutting out the indelible messages
that're embedded in the voice.

I am the unwanted rabid dog
that's shooed out of the publishing houses
lest it contaminates humanity;
But the noisy poetic row
will persist to disturb your peace
calling upon your conscience
to pay some attention!
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