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kaanibaa
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 Posted - 26 Jun 2008 : 21:45:20
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OFFERINGS
Under the hot burning sun
No trees or shade to shelter
Commandeered route liners stood
Only the foolhardy dares default
Poor sweaty children wait
Hungry thirsty and tired
Await the royal charity ,unwary
Scrambling for crushed doggy biscuits
Baited offerings to ignorants
Holding beliefs
That eating the remains
Of the emperor's feast
Bodes well for them
Bringing prosperity
Ergo the scramble
Of tired hungry thirsty people
Huge stately carriages
Big wheelers come crushing bodies to pulp
Riders unmindful of the carnage
Poor sweaty and expendable folk
Bled to oil the carriage wheels of state
As the emperor baits the poor
An Offering to the shrine
The deity is hungry
And most be fed
In exchange for power
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Santanfara
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Posted - 28 Jun 2008 : 12:15:46
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| kaaniba, as the Ghanians would say charleee, what is this poem about? very deep and burried. elaborate |
Surah- Ar-Rum 30-22
"And among His signs is the creation of heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. verily, in that are indeed signs for men of sound knowledge." Qu'ran
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kiwi
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Posted - 28 Jun 2008 : 13:47:53
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I thought it was about a certain president throwing biscuits to his people, isīn it |
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MADIBA
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28 Jun 2008 : 14:12:37
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Kaaniba this poem is abt a certain leader. Who appears to be a despot. He makes people cheer him under appalling conditions. This leader is also supperstitious, thinking that in throwing away biscuits those that eat the 'charity' will help sustain him in power.what a folly!
This despot has fleet of cars of the biggest and probably the most expensive to maintain. This fleet care less if they crush a humanbeing to pulp.
Kaanibaa have i done justice to this poem? |
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kaanibaa
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28 Jun 2008 : 16:29:14
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| Can I say more , the nut is cracked and so we just go on to other nuts harder to crack. Are there any ? Nuts most be cracked open and nut cases are to be discarded to the rubbish bins of history,they have no place among decent people.Add to the cracked cases, the specter of human sacrifice then the picture becomes very very grim. Devil worshipers, and power hungry politicos have been noted to get engaged in such practices and it showed its ugly head during the Liberian debacle;think about this.Do you need more spice ! |
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MADIBA
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28 Jun 2008 : 17:58:07
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Kaanibaa More spiiiice please |
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kaanibaa
United Kingdom
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Posted - 30 Jun 2008 : 00:08:32
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| Madiss, you did very well. The spice is added by events that keep unfolding daily, I wrote that poem as a compliment to Santas piece on marabouts . The way of life or our lifstyle back home in Suegambia is covered here. With offerings to spirits as directed by spiritual guides,they ask us to take out these offerings in all manner of ways and so we get all kinds of weird stories of sacrificial offerings to enable the offerers obtain certain results.The most heinous of such acts is human sacrifice. Imagine the scenario of a certain big man wanting to get blood offerings and snares the poor by throwing food items on the road knowing fully well that they would scramble for this food and that a high speed convoy is closely following which inevitable would crash into the mad scrambling folk thus gets his blood offering. Just a thought. |
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kaanibaa
United Kingdom
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Posted - 30 Jun 2008 : 21:37:07
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| I just gleaned the hot pages of wow.gm and there you have snippets of news about child sacrifice with advent of presidential elections . More pepper now! Yee haa! |
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Dalton1
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Posted - 03 Jul 2008 : 00:19:50
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I like the poem a lot.
bro Kiwi & Madis' version resonates with me a lot.
Honestly, it is candy in my mouth.
Thanks for this one again bro Kaniibaa!
Kind regards,
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"There is no god but Allah (SWT); and Muhammad (SAW)is His last messenger." shahadah. Fear & Worship Allah (SWT) Alone! (:
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kaanibaa
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 Jul 2008 : 02:27:09
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Dalton1
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Posted - 03 Jul 2008 : 03:56:18
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I don't know if you follow a lot of Nigerian movies. If you do, they depict a culture that dwell on devil worship and human sacrifice. It is a believe that devils feed on blood to give wealth, power, money, et cetera...but that is a failure in human thinking.
Back to the poem, With Madis' analysis, I add no more.
I truly see you are complementing many newspaper/posted stories.
Please keep it up!
I fear that too much indepth analysis/straight forward shots on these poems might constitute 'treason' charges in some countries, for sure in the Gambia.
G'nite!! |
"There is no god but Allah (SWT); and Muhammad (SAW)is His last messenger." shahadah. Fear & Worship Allah (SWT) Alone! (:
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kaanibaa
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 Jul 2008 : 18:41:52
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| I then most take care not fall into a trap ,treason or treasonable felony is a heavy charge and should be avoided at all costs;woye enam!Allah dandam fi kule nyaworeh lamou! |
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kaanibaa
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 Jul 2008 : 23:27:53
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| Dalton , i may be mistaken but I do believe there is a law on offending as it stands ;by person(s) in charge of dangerous objects or even non dangerous objects . This is the failure to ensure that the objects ;animate or inanimate do not cause harm to or endanger other persons whilst they are in effective control of the said objects. That,in law is what known as vicarious liability. The observation I made earlier on about casting biscuits on the road to people who eventually scramble for them and got hit by the convoys depicts such a scenario in my opinion. The responsibility or onus thus falls on the thrower of the said biscuits, he caused the scramble and the resultant crushing of the scramblers.This is my point of view, never mind the treasonable connotation that may be attached to my expose. |
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Dalton1
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Posted - 04 Jul 2008 : 23:41:17
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Bro Kaniibaa,
You are not mistaken one bit and to me, you did just fine. A poem like this one cannot be misunderstood. It's a straight forward shot at some devil worshipper's ass who has thrown charity/gifts in feeding demons.
"Guilty as charged" though! You know that well. If i were to write about the subject matter under discourse, my tone won't have been less aggressive than yours. SO BE THE CHARGE! SO BE THAT CHARGE!!
I know it constitute treason in the eyes of a dictatorial regime at the expense of the true law supposed to represent dessenting views including criticism of a nation's leader.
The poem is a trailblazer one and it's a shot/sting of a scorpion's tail on some president's ass, probably Y... Jakut j..m.h. Who the crown fits, should wear/bear that heavy crown.
later,
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"There is no god but Allah (SWT); and Muhammad (SAW)is His last messenger." shahadah. Fear & Worship Allah (SWT) Alone! (:
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kaanibaa
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Jul 2008 : 00:18:39
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| Yee haa! |
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