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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

Prayer for 2017

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

III

LIST OF POEMS

1.1 Poetic Smile

1.1.1 Life fever

1.1.2 To my unborn

1.1.3 Love in Time

1.1.4 Got True like A Dream

1.2 For If I Don’t

1.2. Wake

1.2.2 Goodbye Yesterday

1.2.3 Rebirth 14

1.3 More Days True love

1.3.1 It’s Done Everyday

1.3.2 How Many Times…

1.3.3 Can We Go Back

1.3.4 No matter what...

We stand strong…

1.4 This is how a story goes

1.5 Anger

1.6 Psalms 2 , part II

1.7 Feel me

1.8 Love

1.9 Am Only Human

2.0 Benediction for 2016

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?

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 less richer than my vote

My honesty and their desire

Then we fool ourselves that we progressed…. No way!

I always wish to volunteer… but where do i start;

I see the world as a vast of Illusion

But for more than a shy poet Pardon

I'm I the last Solution?

It‟s all my World but all these every olds just happen to live in it too, Save your souls

A pen, Or a thought, or a word, or a sentence … or some ammunition

There aren‟t any reason

Did we just make a choice my people?

By choosing people with same heads we having

Oh, Its how they've always been'

I love them Politicians.

One Nation, under a government & a bullet scar

Worry not

Just be nappy, Don‟t even look happy. See…..

Waniona vizuriii? (do you really see me well?) Ukiniona (When you really see me),

Once you really feel my warmth

Just leave and walk that way…

Wait … did you just look into my eyes?

We all driven by desires; so Mom don‟t cry

Its greed that made me kill my brother

Never getting but wanting, never touching but wishing

But these prison walls still stand tall

God am now sure that thing‟s will never change

Turn around one more time; Momma

Yea perhaps its just Fantasy

But it‟s done every day.

How Many Times…

Bright light from the sun light

Rises 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 we rose

Its time perhaps,

Events that some say divided us

I cannot tell

But we are made from the similar 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

Can We Go Back

Can we go back?

Just hope to see you again.

I Know you still got that face of a heaven.

Haven‟t changed since the night in rooftop Put all things in a bright stars

Guide me as i guide you

Can‟t even say a single word.

Feels like I‟m stabbed with a sharp sword in my heart...

Come back to yesterday when we were strangers,

Days of us guess we're playing truth and Dare

See that night picture in hand

Can we go back to Magic house please?

Can‟t be your man sitting on a slub.

Think that I have to say that

“We‟re Good"

Again, it is good for friends

No matter what...We stand strong…

We are all homeless in one way so everyone does'

Many are the times we lost ourselves between our worlds

Why are some things so flamed with passion

Today I forgot my road and pattern

Is it the money that makes me the savage

Wandering aimlessly, in cash with something

Or definitely we've been led into the backwoods

by some beaming desire, just to be left out in the cold's

A cold memory, and the warmth of desire

What are we then to do?... prepare?

We have all made faults, And God, I've made mistakes

But my mistakes haven't made me

None of us would have thought

We'd be who we are now

A young African male

With a dream for a government job

I remember,

When we were still little Eyes wide to possibility

Who could have known

But my skin is always right.

My daddy said: No matter what We stand strong…..

This is how a story goes

Just like a sun rising from a dark sky‟s

To your brown beautiful face I imagine and I ask

Will you marry me'

Got you with my knees down

'Without a ring? ' You asked

Here it is....

...now with a ring, will you marry me?"

I can't guess what happened next but time makes decisions go, Forgive my imaginations

I just Left once again at home

Another day on your own

So I got back with a poem and you said

" I don’t even understand BUT i guess you talking about me"

Our tongues touch Kissing

' felling' fireworks Watching the sky‟s out the nights

Now am walking back to my home I say goodbye and leave now

With my heart

I sing all way...not even sure why

Guess I found is you

I still care you have feelings

And there you may still have someone else

It's alright,

I remember that everything

I knew you cautious just from start,

To go all the way…. So I will take you real slow

I can feel your heart with me

The more I see you,

The more that I feel inside

But its only once in a lifetime

Please hold my soul slowly You already got my body all weak Only strong in parts

However, the pleasure was mine

Mommy taught me properly

So if i flop it out ...my woman

Just know it has been carefully done.

A Spot where WE belong

That‟s just for Us

We all dressed up as one

You guide me and I guide you

I'll be right behind you, show me and I'll go

I show you, and we go

A place where I spend my quiet nights, So much pressure.....

I believe in what awaits this special world

I walk alone but....

Thorns in my feet as I see you near yet look so far

Every step hurts... but We keep Moving

Printed on my chest. "Can I stop oh I can't feel my feet"?

I see beyond truth but she won't let me stop for truth...

I‟m not to seek but for what's underneath ...what you breathe u shall complete.

I give u all of me where my concrete words grow upon a rose that smells so sweet.

And you will show me a spot where WE belong

My anger

My Care

Will Be In thy heart,

And

Not thy words…

My anger will be In words,

Not In thy heart

Psalms 2 , part II

Why do families and the members fully reciprocate

The heads maintaining up their positions

And children gather up against their father

Against who brought them to life

“ let us make him silent” they suggest “ put him down to ground.”

The one in the house new minds

And feels pity on their souls

Then regrets in his own heart and delights

“ I will take care of them As my children and siblings”

He swore at their young age “ ask of me”

And I shall provide you with everything The education you need

You will be a better being You will be relied upon like me

Therefore, you children and sons Be educated, you sons of mine

Serve the society and your country widely

And rejoice living happily Kiss your mom and dad And you will be blessed

For if were not for us

Blessed you would never be

Feel me

They said I have to praise Say words to emotion my heart

But I made it

I never doubted before

I believe; that‟s how they taught me

And to control that, "Never ask' Ishmael Wont you just believe!!"

But why,

Should I thank you for what‟s not done!

You are my only… And they say I should treasure that?

living according to your codes

But if truly you said that,

Is that not what you doing to us

Oh am selfish

Writing only to question, rather than ...

So selfish'

Daily Narration with different versions

Same codes but different aspects

But you attained the world'

You really remember concluding that.

I at times see your narration too brief

Too good that evil can’t exist

So blind that i just feel it

You will regret when the day comes.

Am waiting,

And I think waiting is right

Too poetic,

I know u understand Suppose

You do write another'

I requisite my name in it

It‟s seems so abstract such that, I had a dream'

You said I looked like you

`My own image!!' you told me

But i never said anything back

I wasn‟t satisfied.

Love

It‟s a direction lost to feeling

It‟s low on purpose for others to get it

Its silent and attention that i need

Don‟t talk, don‟t express, I know I will never attach

Hide it, down to invisible

Don‟t run,

don‟t go it‟s too deep in me

I can‟t show, if i do then it‟s valueless Now now show it and don‟t let grow

I will be here, there, we shall be Slow, come quickly closer Show' prove it; is it real?

Is it bright like these stars...

But will you give in another the day'

When it‟s no bright, when it‟s like the setting sun?

Will you...will we?

Am Only Human

Have had my thoughts balanced on a beam,

Well, forgive my attitude,

I couldn‟t picture our future in faith'

so I left my heart to feel,

Maybe its right for you and wrong for me

it happens that what we see is what it seems,

And angels like you to stay far apart leaves mybodyself in needs

Again am down for you, I know for you I have many sins.

What else do you expect from a human being?

The way I feel for you its proven by my knees

Because it changed me, I hurt you, i know that and my heart bleeds,

We both just kind of fell into this, You gave me proof that heaven exist

But tell me, what is love without a headache or twist?

Am Only Human; Forgive don‟t but forget.

Benediction for 2016

Long feast on your eyes, this cosmic date brought in a vision named

A few predicted woes,

Still we move along, up, beyond, in,

Planting fresh creative seeds, casting away old husks,

We feel deep awe for all that has ever happened but marvel even more that

Anything at all can happen.

Infused and confused within the unfolding cosmic aim, we seal our past in glass

And welcome, as all there is and will be, our future.

Impressum

Tag der Veröffentlichung: 02.04.2017

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