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Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe

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Poem "Emerging Images":
- written June 2009
- published June 2, 2009
- viewed 19 times

Other poems by Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe:

»A Prayer for Transformation«

»A Question of Beauty«

»A Sketch of Democracy«

»Amidst the Boring Brown«

»At The Golf Course ' 97«

»Crime and grime«

»Doomed Destiny«

»Dreaming In Limbo«

»Easy Crossing the Balustrade«

»End of Time«

»Fading Hope«

»Friendship«

»From The Inside Looking In«

»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«

»Of misery and Anguish«

»Old Man«

»On Saying Goodbye«

»Once Upon A time«

»Our Golden Girl«

»Political Condoms«

»Relationships«

»Sing Our Song«

»Street Child«

»Sweet Bondage«

»Take The Bull By The Horns«

»The 'Human Garbage'«

»The 'X' of Exile«

»The Brown Messiah«

»The Cold Day Unveils«

»The Knocking Woodpecker«

»The meaning of loneliness«

»The Poets Have Spoken«

»The Prison I'm Not In«

»The Way«

»Things I Miss In Exile«

»This Life - An Oxymoron«

»True Love«

»When in your eyes It looks«

»When the end beckons«

»Zany«

»Emerging Images«

by Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe

Imagine imagining images emerging
From a state in a state of decay
Where there's no food, no water,
No money, no harvest, no justice
And no hope for political justice!

Imagine war lords inflicting terror
On defenceless, hungry villagers
Forcing their will power to bend
Under the pressure of intimidation.
Oh, imagine imagining such images!

Imagine our house of stone
Crumbling to a heap of ruins
Right there before our very eyes
While we sing praise to demagogues.
Just imagine these emerging images!

Imagine starving for democracy
While THEY feed on capitalism
Farting foul corruption and nepotism
Turning talks into dangerous jokes.
Imagine, imagine, just imagine!

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Rathnashikamani Bijja: "Very poignant and true imagery of the state of anarchy and its ill effects on a country. This poem echoes the aching hearts of a nation in distress."
Mahiya Alex: "Another true representation of the state of affairs in our great continent-Africa. You represent the people's pains like I have never read before."

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