My Poems Elijah N.

Odundo (McWadhiayah)

In the writing SeminarElijah Odundo. It all started with free writes In this visitation of liminality My long awaited journey begins Fate and date know no hate In his legacy East or West home is blessed at its best Principia is home

A lot of funs to free write Poppies in October Imagine a piece of bread The springboard for ideas Little fascination to bread and pizza

Pablo Neruda teaching writing Teaching two kinds of thinking Things they carried: Mother tongue Food diary and Attitude Anything you kill, you got to eat Writing is infectious

Detected in this wilderness Introduction to poetry Im an assayer in this essay Intrigued by title Some people like poetry Who is afraid of poetry? Americans are but help is on the way

Free writing Fun to read Triumph, contest and enjoy Fresh ideas in this college Engage deeply in the story Love and life and talent all hovering A wonderful energy to entire group Dance to the tune Diversity not adversity Divinity and dignity Contention not detention

Dignity dressed with decorumAll lash and plash; Lived life like a lion Pleased with peace In this land of Knowledge It has cease am at ease

Elizabeth, a person of passion and fashion Touched the heart of silent majority What you confess you profess Call it aphorism Essay much of a state of mind All in all What you confess you profess

In the midst of wonder Trouble with the wilderness Almost collapsed Fell into deep slumber A rude shock of my life And it touched my heart And soul and mind

Fame and fortune Dressed my dignity with decorum Never am I the same Not in the free writing Nature and nurture is the stature I prefer serenity I prefer integrity to morality

I prefer absurdity to conformity

Mission with vision every season Beauty worthy to behold Rich moment no torment Thats all my comment Leaving the reader guessing Am still wondering Wilderness, or wildness? So busy the going not easy Reaction of the activity Meaningful endeavor Glittering and lingering

But then it felt as though it dropped off Torrents of trouble So abrupt So harsh and trash Strained and buttressed Confusing and boring It was so strange

Pampered pumpkins this fall

Remarkably insightful; My life is all essays Attain and sustain again and again Wonderful Story of glory

SILENT SIREN Odundo Elijah Nyakina McWadhiayah Tonight I shed some light In this subject that you object Your nice prejudice The thick mist that obscures nice mind In the sphere of credibility Not a spice in our eyes The whole world infested with the malady Even my very lady has it already The western overtones unsettle The mythic echoes endear the war Psychic mimic of ethos and woes An insensitive endeavor A truly offensive favor

In this track a crack there is Yet in this pack Wont backtrack Black makes color

But color not black Black makes no sin No sin being black To you a futile battle it is Like a rattle snake A slow shuttle it buckles

Precept upon precept Away your pretense fades Soon we are greeted with it In bargain, our complains get bitter Furrowed and rolled into a disdainful curl Disgusted and betrayed The pain and disdain no better Are we inadequate or obsolete?

Your subtle nuance in this trace, A terrible annoyance to our place No chaste or grace in this case Absolute absurdity in our society A resolute hostility of no sobriety Your silence to our cry, A pollute of our tranquility Soiling human audacity and capacity

Curious yet so fearful Furious yet so dear But barely will you hear That we have some dignity With great civility We need to be treated

And let me sing this song - the silent siren To ping and pong so that it gongs strongly along That all is oblong And you are wrong

Now tell me without fear so that I hear Whats the happiness for this rudeness and ugliness? To what extent is this voice a noise Of what prosperity has this austerity? What prosperity can this brutality offer in this vitality?

Is there any better future for this wounded innocence? Why feature on their ground with your bitter silence?

Then you form a commission of inquiry, An inquiry that fuels our fury, A commission of omissions,

Omissions for submissions Submissions to fulfill null missions Of what reason?

A commission with no vision, Every season? Accuse me for treason if you can But this abuse and truce That confuses and diffuses Should not have a chance

Why this ruthless act? Why give me a part In your endless, senseless, selfish pact? If Fascinated and delighted Let's denounce assimilation In the debate of integration Designed and executed Not by luck but by blacks

Still the pieces are scattered For the pills of peace are shattered The tears and fears havent ceased

How then can we be pleased?

The diamonds are in the dust The visions and missions shattered, Buried beneath the old hard rock The bright petals have faded, The silent siren is now blaring Loud and very clear Even if we are denied respect for life, Why cant you fear our tears in this gear? For this siren is just but, A silent one Arent we part of the humanity? Case still pending!