Thursday, 27 December 2018

Lets live in this moment

Lets live in this moment,
Lets dance with the tune
And enjoy the moonlight
Keep those worries for tomorrow,
 Lest you miss on this beautiful night.
Keep your eyes on the scenery,
The stars fighting with all their might
For their space in the sky
Lighting up our soul on their magnificient sight,
Twinkle twinkle little stars, make the sky so beautiful
And melt our hearts with its amazing beauty,
Making us wish that the night never ends
And Even if it does, the imprinted scene will always make us smile,
Before the night ends
Let live in this moment.

By Diana Rop

Tell Me One More Time

Tell me one more time
That it'll be okay
Tell me one more that
That the my darkest hour comes before dawn,
Tell me one more time
That you believe in me
Tell me one more time
That i can make it
Tell me one more time

by Diana Rop

I Carry A Poet's Burden


There was a morning, a Saturday morning
When the words echoed in my head
Exhorting me to rise and write them
That my heart beat for you


I was the titanic, setting sail
To you, the alluring iceberg
And our collision,
Oh! How beautiful a ruin

The simple thought of us
Wrecked every nerve in me
Sinking, I’d sink in a bliss
As unsure as tomorrow

I wanted to light the stars
The stars in your eyes
‘cause you lit the ones in mine
How much I wanted to

It turns out, sadly
There were things, certain obscure things
That you only felt in your thoughts
Among those things – love

Now I carry the burden of a poet
Expressing other’s feelings
Put my heart on the shelf
and, once in a while, read it like a book,
for the words inside it amount to a thousand pages
of feelings that died like untended fire
all I have is the ashes of a dream
how easily they slip through my fingers
just like you did, and I allowed
now I shoulder a burden,
a poet’s burden

Monday, 17 December 2018

Niruhusu Nikuite Baraddhuli


Kama kuku kwao mtama, chambo chako kikanasa,
Na kwa mkunjufu mtima, ‘kamchagua mkongwe hasa,
Matumaini yazama, vijana kwenye anasa
‘Kiniruhusu raisi, ‘takuita baradhuli

Kwa mapana na marefu, ukamteua Awori,
Nchi yetu tukufu, ‘mebaki la wenye gari,
Wakupa sifa sufufu, mwenye njaa ale mori,
‘Kiniruhusu raisi, ‘takuita baradhuli


Ulisimama jukwaani, ukanena wazi wazi,
Kama kundule kwa nyani, azma ya kijana wizi
Wamo wenye mvi vichwani, ila linavuja zizi
‘Kiniruhusu raisi, ‘takuita baradhuli