AFRICA POEMS AND PROVERBS

African Phoenix ====================== Out of the ashes of a phoenix A new African phoenix is born As black and as famished as ever Carrying the same loads of thorn The same batches of infamy Of disease, of wars, of hunger The same scars in the horn As politicians to each others whisper Sweet lies; with no conscience to scorn As they exhale and praises inhale over dinner And more ranks to their siblings adorn Africa stands aloof as distant as ever As unique as an alien unicorn Writhing in mounts of litter Burdened, broken and outworn

PREZZO'S POEM ON THE PASSAGE TO ETERNITY OF GOLDIE

Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Ants are great teachers ( Pr 30:24-28 ). There are things you can learn from ants that will help you succeed professionally more than your academic or technical education. Ants are diligent and prudent: diligent by working hard without coercion, and prudent by saving part of all production. These two basic necessities for success are generally neglected in modern societies, where pleasure is worshipped and deficit spending is encouraged. What is a sluggard? A person who is slow, lazy, and does not like to work hard. He is a pain to those trusting him ( Pr 10:26 ). Diligent men will be successful ( Pr 10:4 ; 12:24 ; 14:23 ; 22:29 ; 28:19 ), but lazy men are losers ( Pr 6:10-11 ; 12:24 ; 19:15 ; 20:4 , 13 ; 24:30-34 ). Sluggards are too arrogant to be taught ( Pr 26:16 ), so Solomon mocked them with ants. If they were to watch ants for a few minutes, these haughty bums could learn success, for ant

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'Africa my beginning, Africa my end. I was born here and I will die here' Africa you bear my hopes and fears Poverty, famine, crime and AIDS are words which plague Mother Africa's name These demons bring me shame While people try to make Africa better, a few let the hardship overpower them Shame on them They give up hope and go about their knavish ways Even though there's hope on the horizon, be that as it may They continue to destroy what little Mother Africa has Africa is no longer what she was 'Mother Africa is weeping' Yet a new dawn may be creeping Mother Africa and her children are beautiful, they know their place in nature Even though hardship may corrupt good nature In the name of ALL that is good, I hope Africa will rise one day   And we'll stop the suffering before she frays The words upon a famous poet, I hear 'Africa my beginning, Africa my end. I was born here and I will die here'   Mthoko Mpofana

Patience is the key which solves all problems. ~ Sudanese proverb Hurry, hurry has no blessings. ~ Swahili proverb Patience is the mother of a beautiful child. ~ Bantu proverb To run is not necessarily to arrive. ~ Swahili proverb Patience can cook a stone. ~ African proverb A patient man will eat ripe fruit. ~ African proverb At the bottom of patience one finds heaven. ~ African proverb A patient person never misses a thing. ~ Swahili proverb Patience puts a crown on the head. ~ Ugandan proverb Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far. ~ Swahili proverb Always being in a hurry does not prevent death, neither does going slowly prevent living. ~ Ibo proverb However long the night, the dawn will break. ~ African proverb