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By Mola Fritz Ngale Ilongo

Fiery crown of the Kpes
Guarding refugees on exile from lands ancestral
Brooding brow wreathed with cloud waves high and low of tide
Mirror reflecting flitting emotions experienced below awesome giant.
From sources mysterious, rivers and fountains red molten
Are belched suddenly
The invincible floods preceded by shivers earth-shaking

Prelude to gigantic vomits
Coughing out earth's bowels devouring
Terror of generations
Never committing the error of annihilating species menaced by extinction
Seeking protection grace within arms colossal.
Solid flanks of forest green repel invasion onslaughts
Petering out into savannah lush
Dancing brushes waving gaily in soft breezes without caprice

Refuge for species unique

Survivors of another age.

On heels of scenario yellow comes magic tree

Inaccessible plant tantalising

Floating just beyond space

Gateway to semi-arid mat

Home of dauntless ferns

Stunted people of another epoch

Below wind level squatting.

The anteroom to apex of colossus is desert stony

Arid moat protecting pinnacle haughty

Home of the gods

Welcoming home only the courageous

That once home

Realise that all else is far below

Nestling small in majestic folds of towering masterpiece eternal.

February 2012

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Mola,

This is an interesting take on the mountain.I find your deliberate reversal of syntax(if one can validly refer to syntax in a poem) intriguing. You sound like someone who has read Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible.

Congratulations

Posted by: Rosemary Ekosso | Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 04:57 AM