BongoTz.Com: Immortal Poems/Gut Letters

Cloths of Heaven

2010-09-28T02:11:00.000-07:00

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
~W.B Yeats

These Genetics Stuff

2010-07-23T14:04:00.000-07:00

So you didn’t get a prom date?
“It’s because of this stupid acne,” you cried
Well, blame these genetics stuff:
They are your true enemy!

So she just broke up with you?
“I’m not a socially gifted person,” you assumed
Well, blame this genetics stuff:
They are your true enemy!

So you got pulled over by the cops last night?
“It’s because I’m black,” you complained
Well, blame these genetics stuff:
They are your true enemy!

So your body is wracked with pain?
And you can’t even get out of the bed!?
Well, blame these genetics stuff:
They are your true enemy!

So you are basically overweight?
And there’s nothing you can do about it!?
Well, blame these genetics stuff:
They are your true enemy!

So you are now in your late 80’s?
And you are so terrified of him, “the grim reaper!”
Well, blame these genetics stuff:
They are your true enemy!

© Edward Chacha, 2010

A Monster Crush On Her

2010-06-09T12:28:00.000-07:00

It could be the way she smiles,
Or perhaps the look on her face;
Whatever it is, I care not to explain:
All I know is that I have a monster crush on her.

So tomorrow to the City of Angels I will sail,
For there’s a part of me that wants to see her;
And possibly shake her hand, and say, “how’s it going?”
For I’ve a reason to believe that she will kindly receive me.

And so I’m going to Los Angeles California to see her,
Whether she turns her back on me, I have nothing to fear;
For I can't see myself loving nobody but her:
And yes, even Grim Reaper himself can’t help but desire of her.

The Remedy of Love

2010-02-20T20:40:00.000-08:00

Is more than lighting few candles every now and then,
Or a romantic walk along the beach while holding hands.

The remedy of love is to cry with her when the night falls on her,
And laugh with her when hidden ecstasy overwhelms her.

It is making love to her in unexpected new places,
Yes, on the bathroom counter, or outside in the rain.

It is doing all the thrilling stuff that turns her on,
Possibly an hour of foreplay while squeezing her nipples:)

And if she ever gets old and starts feeling insecure,
Don’t love her less; tell her that she is beautiful.

Oh, Mystical Woman!

2010-02-18T13:54:00.000-08:00

She slipped in my room unannounced wearing nothing underneath,
Only light silky sexy lingerie exposing her extraordinary beauty.

Her face shone radiantly as she elegantly walked towards me,
“Torment me,” she whispered as she kissed my neck tenderly.

I stretched my neck and whispered gently, “I will try baby,”
She smiled affectionately as she brushed her moist lips against my ear, “kiss me.”

So we kissed; and it felt like someone had just sucked all the air out of my lungs,
Oh, mystical woman! What shall I call you? ‘Magical,’ is what you are.

Unspoken Feelings

2010-02-16T06:32:00.000-08:00

I can't help but wonder if in that place,
There was a room for a heart less than whole:
I will never know how the touch of your skin feels,
For I am so afraid my heartstrings will soon be exhausted.

I don’t know exactly how to express my inner feelings,
But I suppose it is too late now to dream of us:
Just for a moment's passing in the stream of time,
You will someday see how complete you'd have made me.

But now I see that I must give up what I most need,
I must go back hiding in my broken skin:
I must now stop chasing the elusive shadow,
And more so, dust off myself and start all over again.

Letter to my Unborn

2006-08-14T13:26:00.000-07:00

Dear son,

I’m writing you because I don’t want you to have the same shitty life as the one I had.

Soon or later you gonna be entering a strange planet, our very earth. Personally, I’d love to be there to hear your heartbeat for the first time, and see the glow on your innocent eyes, nevertheless my psyche keeps telling me that I’ll not make it.

Why? --I don’t know...

I know it gonna hurts you deep down to not seeing me around, but I want you to know that Dad loves you so. I only wish there was some way I could spare both you and your mom from this experience.

Son, I don’t know your name yet, but coming into this world is like being dropped into a huge den full of deadly and venomous scorpions. It demands extraordinary dexterities to survive. You might not realize this until you’re much older, but frankly speaking--it’s a damn cold world my son. Enemy territory, as my good friend Kalebi always reminded me.

You’ll learn many lessons in your life; some lessons will be harder, tougher and scarier than your feeble body can bear. Do not to freeze when such times arrive, but rather keep your head up, stand tall, and be a real man like me.

In simple language, just take it slow… day by day, one step a time. Just remember this: “each moment is just what it is. You can either get depressed about it, or you can fully appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of your life." As the America-born author and literary critic of the late 19th century and the early 20th century, Henry James put it, “Live all you can. It is a mistake not to. It doesn’t matter so much what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t hard that, what have you had?”

Perhaps you’re now questioning: "Dad, if that’s the case, how then will I ever make it in this crazy world?" Don’t worry son, there is no doubts in my mind that you’ll defeat every impediments that stand before you because the genes you carry in your chromosome are much more powerful beyond measures.

Besides, your mama is a beautiful woman who smiles, laughs, think positive and enjoy life. And if you ever become anything like me, then I know for sure you’ll become a brilliant person. So worry not son, you’ll make it. In fact, I’m sure you’re going to.

Son, if there is one thing I’d love you to be in this world is a “critical thinker.” An autodidactic. Question every answer, strive to education and discipline your mind. Educate yourself about Philosophy, Spirituality, Math & Science, and world history. And if you have access to library read every relevant book that you can get your hands on. Take advantages of information technology, too. Study computer and high-tech skills. I suggest that you study graphic design, the very field I had immense passion about. Please son, never lose the will to try new stuff.

Let me give you an excellent example on this very issue (education), before I proceed further perhaps it might help to capture your imagination a bit, if not to persuading you: One of the great minds of information age is a Nigerian guy named Philip Emeagwali. He had to leave school because his parents couldn’t afford to pay the fees. He lived in refuge camp during Nigeria’s civil war. At the age of 17, he was awarded a scholarship to Oregon State University and went on to invent a formula that lets computers make 3.1 billion calculations per second. Some people call him Bill Gates of Africa (Clinton, 2000).

And you know what is funny, son? He was largely self-taught (in the field of science) until 1974 when he won a scholarship to Oregon State University.

Son, this is important too. I know you’re going to grow up and become a very talented, fabulous, brilliant, and handsome guy whom most girls get attracted to so easily. Please don’t let that sidetrack you.

I mean, even though I’m a strong advocate when it comes to the question of “free will,” here I will argue you son to save sex for marriage. After all, sex is nothing but a state of mind. You might not understand this for now, but when ‘em gals hurt you and you brokenhearted , you’ll then understand.

My beloved son, in this planet earth of ours, everyone makes a vote as to the type of the world we have with his/her lifetime efforts. You’ll learn this in History class someday.

You learn on people like Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Mother Theresa, Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King Jr, Julius Kambarage Nyerere, Magabe Kibiti, Kalebi Mgomi, Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert Einstein, and many more who influenced these voting results by stuffing the ballot box with an increase in the number and size of actions for change.I’ll love to see you too involved in making some real and lasting changes to lives of less fortunate people. You don’t have to do so much my son, "Just little things with a great love." See, "It’s like in a movie where you root for a good guy over a bad guy." And so, just root for you to be a good guy in a real life.

In closing let me also address you about the issue of loneliness. It’s true that if you chose to carry my genetic materials instead of your mama’s, you’re definitely going to get lonely somehow along the way. But don’t panic or feel bad when that happen. "There is no such thing as loneliness. Loneliness is similar to darkness. You can go on fighting with the darkness for the natural term of your life and you’ll not succeed. You cannot push it away. There is no possible way to make darkness disappears. All you need is just a small candle to dispel it."

Now, you can chose to create a little illusion to forget your loneliness, but it isn’t going to help you my son. Illusions like--creating a relationship or friendship with someone. Though you can forget for a moment your loneliness by doing that. But just the next moment you’ll suddenly become aware that the relationship or the friendship is not permanent. Today you are friends--who knows about tomorrow? Tomorrow you may be strangers again--hence the pain.

One more thing: Do whatever it takes to become a multimillionaire. In other words, trust nobody else but money. Don’t rely on nobody. Nobody cares when you’re broke, even the very lover of your life. Everybody changes! But if you have money, they all cares, they all respect you. And as you get older, only your money is yours.

My beloved son, I can’t help tears in my heart 'cause I know for sure this is my last piece of fatherly advice to you. Be a good man!

And as I begin the journey that will lead me to the blackout of my life, for you I know there will always be a bright new morning ahead.

May God always bless you son!
Love, Dad

IF...(By, Rudyard Kipling)

2006-01-02T06:54:00.000-08:00

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

GREATEST EQUALLIZER

2005-10-25T19:10:00.000-07:00

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
--Marcus Aurelius

NEUROSIS

2005-10-02T00:30:00.000-07:00

"...Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis.Our brilliance, our juiceness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness and our confusion, and therefore it doesn't do any good to try to get rid of our so-called negative aspects,because in the process we also get rid of our basic wonderfulness"--Pema chodron

The reality!!

2005-09-05T08:02:00.000-07:00

"...People must realize that even with all these comforts, all this money and a GNP that increases every year, they are still not happy. They need to understand that the real culprits are our unceasing desires. Our wants have no end."
-Dalai Lama, "Imagine All the People"

HONESTY!

2005-09-05T07:55:00.000-07:00

"...True fearlessness comes from the knowledge thatwe will never lie to ourselves, that we will never evadea single moment of our lives. We will be fully presentfor every moment and every consequence."
THE VENERABLE SHYALPA RINPOCHE

COURAGE

2005-06-30T23:50:00.000-07:00

COURAGE

Doesn't always roar.

Sometimes courage is the quite voice at the end of the day saying...

"Iwill try again tomorrow."

GOOD ADVICE

2005-06-25T23:07:00.000-07:00

"...Good advice is like a snow;the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon,and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

TEAM WORK

2005-06-13T08:40:00.000-07:00

"...Never Doubt that a small group of thoughful,committed people can change the world.Indeed,it is the only thing that ever has."

--Unknown.

Measure of a Man

2005-05-20T16:54:00.000-07:00

"...The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,but where he stands at times of challenges and controversy."
--Martin Luther King Jr.

VIRTUE

2005-05-16T09:38:00.000-07:00

"...Virtue means doing the right thing,in the relation to the right person,at the right time,to the right extent,in the right manner,and for the right purpose.Thus,to give money away is quite a simple take,but for the act to be virtuous,the donor must give to the right person,for the right purpose,in the right amount,in the right manner,and the right time."--ARISTOTLE

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Mazingira Yetu

2005-03-06T09:22:00.000-08:00

*Mazingira yetu,Mstakabali wetu"-Tunzeni mazingira kwa kupanda miti kwa wingi.

Posted by Hello

EACH MOMENT IS JUST WHAT IT IS

2004-11-25T07:32:00.000-08:00

Few years ago,an American woman named Pema Chodron published a book,"The Wisdom Of No Escape" that captured imaginations all over the world.She wrote about saying yes to life,about making friends with ourselves/our world,and about accepting the delightful and painful situation of "no exit".
In chapter 6,the book tells a story of woman running from tigers.She runs and runs,and the tigers are getting closer and closer.When she comes to the edge of a cliff,she sees some vines there,so she climbs down and holds on to the vines.Looking down she sees that there are tigers below her as well.She then notices that a mouse is gnawing away at the vine to which she is clinging.She also sees a beautiful little bunch of strawberries closer to her,growing out of a clump of grass.She looks up she looks down.She looks at the mouse.Then she just take a strawberry,puts it her mouth,and enjoys it throughly.
...Tigers above,tigers below.This is actually the predicament that we are always in,in terms of our birth and death.Each moment is just what it is.It might be the only moment of our life,it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat.We could get depressed about it,or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every moment of our life.
~*Acknowledging the preciousness of each day is a good way to live,a good way to reconnect with our basic joy~*
From:The Wisdom Of No escape p.25.

LIFE/MAISHA

2004-10-24T06:03:00.000-07:00

"Maisha ni mafupi,na hatuna muda mwingi wa kufurahisha nyoyo za wale tunaosafiri nao katika dunia hii yenye kiza.Uwe mwepesi basi wa kupenda!Ufanye haraka kuwa mwema kwa wenzako."

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BongoTz.Com: Immortal Poems/Gut Letters

Cloths of Heaven

These Genetics Stuff

A Monster Crush On Her

The Remedy of Love

Oh, Mystical Woman!

Unspoken Feelings

Letter to my Unborn

IF...(By, Rudyard Kipling)

GREATEST EQUALLIZER

NEUROSIS

The reality!!

HONESTY!

COURAGE

GOOD ADVICE

TEAM WORK

Measure of a Man

VIRTUE

Mazingira Yetu

**EACH MOMENT IS JUST WHAT IT IS**

LIFE/MAISHA

EACH MOMENT IS JUST WHAT IT IS