TEENAGE SABOTAGE

 From a dreadful early age or thirteen

Boys and girls become a sabotaged teen

Upon missed chances, by poverty or negligence 

Or through abuse or some life-phase circumstance

Believe or doubt, whether a journey of choice or pressure

Daughters and sons of our very own soil!

Facing all or much of the world’s pervading spoil

Born into and brought up with the freedom of choice or lack

Maybe to be trampled or sampled by the strong, cunning or any who pleasure 

Sexually, socially, economically, morally, and spiritually; too weak to escape the smack!

©Mwango Lupupa 15112021

THE CLOUDS WERE RUSHING TO LUSAKA

They were rushing to bring a chill

How fast, no one could really tell

God-sent, it seems, the people to drill

Smoky & silky as though to cast a spell

They looked innocent, yet so effective

No Lusakan could escape irrespective

In pockets they rushed, the sun to veil

The sun above them & the wind beneath

Mysteriously charged, they roamed earth

Lusaka could frost & fray for warmth!

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THE AFRICAN SUN

©Mwango Lupupa 23102016

To write it is my right; to sing it should be right

Goldenly the sun appears; mildly it disappears

Quietly peeling on the scaly mountains

Smouldering over the silky horizon

The grandeur seems just right

Like springs or seasonal fountains

Into the unending zone

Golden and mildly

All but once rightly

Sure it rises, truer it raises

On and through the green lush fields

On the soft blue or sparkly waters

Mothers and fathers, sons and daughters

Oh but it is God who raises the African sun

Even a song in the heart of an African

The African sun not only rises and raises

It also blesses all it shines upon

Oh wake up to this reality

For it dawns the day

And it ends its stay

To what end? To what profit?

You’ve to choose, you’ve got to say

I will sing about the African sun

I will sing it right because it’s my right

Being free under the African sun

Just feels right so as to do what's right

Seems just right so as to do what’s right

Good to be alive and to be counted for some good

Mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters

Rise like the sun unto good!

WINGS OF A STRANGER

 

 

 

 

She grows wings of a stranger

She unmistakably takes on wings of stranger

And she very readily mounts on wings of a stranger

She surprises and frustrates by her words or actions, her wings to master

She has no fixed loyalty to anyone; she’s but a cautiously disappointing drifter

She has no regrets keeping her promises as much as taking on voyager wings

No matter what good someone does for her, auto is her wing-flight mode

Married or not, needs no expert, then, now or ever, her wings really to prod

A man can love a woman but not completely know or understand her swings!

 ©Mwango Lupupa 022020

 
‘Wings of stranger’ depicts a character, particularly female, that disappoints or surprises you by their words or actions, by which you wonder if you know them at all! It’s a description of someone who does or says something undesirable that completely catches you unawares such that it makes you ask where it came from. Someone is held or said to take on, have or develop ‘wings of a stranger’ when they say or do something that frustrates or somehow pieces you off and makes you feel like they have become distant or as if they are a stranger momentarily. In my mother tongue, we say “amena amapipiko”, which is literally translated “he/she has grown wings”. You believe you know someone well? Think again!

 

MAINTENANCE-FREE WIFE!

Although it is entirely imaginary, I honestly got inspiration for this piece upon pondering hard on how simply a wife can live life without being undaunted, to her old age!

LOVE IS A LAW

LOVE IS A LAW

WHOSE:          

Source is Divine

       Power is Immeasurable

Comprehensibility is Unfathomable

Enforcement is By Everyone Regardless

       Jurisdiction is Everywhere by Universal Pine

Measure is Blamelessness

Will is Benevolent Choice

       Aim is Blessing and Bliss

       Morality is Charity

       Time-frame is Perpetuity

SUCH THAT IT IS BETTER EXERCISED & EXPERIENCED THAN WITHHELD & EXPLAINED!

Espoused To One

ESPOUSED TO ONE

                          ©Mwango Lupupa 24/05/2016

To One Wife

To One Husband

I Find Myself Drawn

The Gifting Of One Holy God

With This One In Life I Shall Stand

Knitted As Much One This Day Forward

As One Moreover In Our Gracious Lord

To Whom You And I Are More Sworn

Through Calvary Twice Precious

One True Love, Faith’s Reward

Timely known, Mutually Drawn

Reposed By The Spirit

To One End Glorious

 And Bliss!

Focus

FOCUS

THROUGH YOUR FOCUS

BE BORNE GOODNESS

BY YOUR CREATIVITY AND RESOURCEFULNESS

OTHERS BE ABOUNDING

WITH YOUR CONCERN AND LOVE

FOSTER HAPPINESS

IN YOUR WISDOM BE GUIDED

AND IN PATIENCE BE EVOLVING

OUT OF YOUR MOTIVATION

OTHERS BE INSPIRED AND MOVING

BECAUSE OF YOUR VISION AND PRINCIPLES

BE REWARDED AND FULFILLED!

©Mwango Lupupa 2010, Lusaka