KABEDOOPONG PIDDO DDIBE'ST - POEMS

Kabedoopong Piddo Ddibe'st is an English & Literature Teacher, aged 24, an Acholi by tribe from Kitgum District, from a dirt poor family background. Uganda is the East African nation commonly known as "The Pearl of Africa"; once ruled by the Dictator Idi Amin Dada(1971-9), and then Y.K Museveni(1986-present), and also invaded by Joseph Kony{LRA}(1986-2006).

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                               A Clean Stain on Paper
 
I read the lines with keen eagle-eyes,
No word missed,it compelled me
Looking at the dying picture
Perfectly photopapered by an expert journalist,
Of a girl more tender than a breast-feeding baby,
With the head perforated with a bullet
Of two elephants threshing grasses under their huge feet,
Bullets raining, blood running on the streets.
Cold captured me like the thought-police
As I curiously looked at the flood of blood staining the white paper,
Running like a rapid rivulet,
On the Palistine's naked street of raining bullets,
Blood streaking from innocent faces like Jesus's sweats,
Of two parties boozed with bloodlust,
And everflowing river of thoughtlessness for human life.


                              The Pearl of Cockyne

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This land over-flows with milk and honey,
Mixed with blood and corrupt money,
Bread and butter fall like manna to the haves,
And the have-nots are destined for graves,
For drugs are so expensive that deaths are cheaper,
This land of peace is for a peace-dreamer.
The jewellery pearl of Cockyne
Mixed with flood of Want and cocaine,
Condoms seal heroes in family planning,
Slavery handcuffs freedom with banning;
Men marry the fellows' bottoms,
Women the same,beside deadly neucleic atoms,
Tear-gas stings innocent lungs and eyes,
Society feeds on bones,vampires'
Hearts are very cold Saharan ice,
Feeding on meat like vultures
Pretending to benefit the bonny society
Where humanity died of modernity.