SO MANY BROKEN DREAMS.

[IL CAPO]

So many obstacles and so many battles

So many broken families and failed marriages

So many broken dreams and painful tears

So many children are born

with no fathers at home

So many young mothers with no husbands

Fathers are either long gone and dead

Or simply failed their wives and kids

Leaving mothers with broken hearts

and another child without a father

In a world where people lost faith

In marriages and family, girls stopped

Fantasising about the day they would

Finally get married and be the wife

Of the man of their dreams

How can I stay positive and remain productive

When friends are no longer supportive

Ladies stopped being seductive

All they want is to be provocative

Young boys and girls have no clear objective

Most of our men are inactive

Some rely on taking lives

While some are on drugs actively

Dear God, show us the way to a better life

All I want is my people to get active

We seem to have lost the believe

That is why the struggle is so massive

It is about time we got imaginative

Because no one wants to be fugitive

We should learn and teach to forgive

So we could all lead a lucrative life.

 

GOD BLESS MY PEOPLE.

[sheherazade]

Thanks. Prolific guy. U're the only one keepinng this section going. Don't stop.

[IL CAPO]

sheherazade

 

I don't know about the Prolific part but i will try my best and thanks for the compliment.

1 Love.

[Paragon]

Shehera, adiga don't spoil it for us. I have to confess, I enjoy IL CAPO's poetry. My fear is if I commented I thought he might starve us of his poetry. So shehera...please...shuush!

 

IL CAPO .. dont stop bro. In the poetry section unlike others, people come to read and ocassionally post a peace they have written. It is all about sharing enjoyments of poetry. Sometimes some nomads may comment but usually the bulk of them read and enjoy poems nicely and quietly .

[sheherazade]

Jay-eleven, I don't think anything will stop Il Capo. You are right, though. Most of us enjoy in silence but a poet's words deserve a little snapping of the fingers now and then, don't u think?

 

As for you, have u become more of a reader and less of a writer or what? Soo daa, saaxib.

[Paragon]

Shehera, I think, like you, I have found comfort in the backbench of poetry section. Whats more tastier than eying and enjoying creatively composed poetry that pleasures the imagination. However, I think we all need to take it more seriously and post more finely written poetry!

 

Agree? I remember regarding a poem about 'Birds'.

[sheherazade]

I agree. The poem is a beautiful recognition of poets, their ability and why they must keep writing. Nice to be reminded of it. Here it is for those who haven't read it:

 

The Poet And The Bird

 

Said a people to a poet---' Go out from among us straightway!

While we are thinking earthly things, thou singest of divine.

There's a little fair brown nightingale, who, sitting in the gateways

Makes fitter music to our ears than any song of thine!'

 

The poet went out weeping---the nightingale ceased chanting;

'Now, wherefore, O thou nightingale, is all thy sweetness done?'

I cannot sing my earthly things, the heavenly poet wanting,

Whose highest harmony includes the lowest under sun.'

 

The poet went out weeping,---and died abroad, bereft there---

The bird flew to his grave and died, amid a thousand wails:---

And, when I last came by the place, I swear the music left there

Was only of the poet's song, and not the nightingale's.

 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[IL CAPO]

J11,

I fully understand what you mean and i appreciate your effort and time.

 

sheherazade

i take that as a compliment .

 

P.S now you two,what would you like to drink coffee,tea,milk,soda and don't worry about me i will leave right away and you wont see or hear from me in the next 24 hours, .

would you like me to close the door on my way out? LoooooooooooooooooL. Shehe 1 LUV.

Peace.

[Paragon]

^^^ Most welcome bro...

 

Nota Bene: Nothings going on

[sheherazade]

Nothing at all. Reign in your imagination!

 

The Secret Sits

 

We dance round in a ring and suppose,

But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

 

Robert Frost

[IL CAPO]

J11,

I understand what you mean Sxb.

 

 

Nice 1 Shehe and i like your Avator too.

Peace.