Who else loves poetry
@SIDIKIMPOLE (1999)
Eldoret, Kenya
June 28, 2024 6:43am CST
I am, from birth, a lover of poetry. In fact I started reading poetry when I was as young as 5. By the time I was joining primary school, I had started composing poems in my native language, Kiswahili. While in high school, I composed over 5,000 poems in Swahili language, about 200 in English and some 20-30 in Spanish. However I made a record composition when I composed 150 poems in one night and drunk one litre of Vodka in the same night. My wife had eloped so I over composed and overdrank out of depression. So who else loves poetry?
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@SIDIKIMPOLE (1999)
• Eldoret, Kenya
28 Jun
Thank you for your opinion. But the ones I created when my wife exited are so much jumbled up. Hard to understand, I was very furious and drunk while writing
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@JudyEv (350805)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Jun
@SIDIKIMPOLE I can understand that you would have been very upset but it was probably good for you to get your feelings out on paper. My mother loved poetry and even when very old she could recite poems that she had learnt at school.
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@SIDIKIMPOLE (1999)
• Eldoret, Kenya
30 Jun
@JudyEv Thank you. Did your mum compose some?
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@josie_ (10032)
• Philippines
29 Jun
I occasionally dabble in poetry. Although not as prolific like you. The muse would come at odd moments and that might happen during state of inebriations. You could post some of your poetry in mylot like many others myself included. I would be very much interested in those written in Swahili with an approximate translation.
A well written verse
with metered measured
rhymes and rhythm
syntax and syllables
in their proper places
Only one thing is missing
where is its soul?
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@SIDIKIMPOLE (1999)
• Eldoret, Kenya
30 Jun
Thank you. I will share some with you.
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