Early Birds
written by: Andrea Myinga
One moon alights,
The mighty night fades away,
Eye-catching twinkles pop up,
Straightening the wrinkles,
Of a wagging, angry sky,
Fierce from the defeat,
Sounded louder and harder,
Until crack of another dawn,
The stink of that death,
Cooks and spices vanity,
Served first as breakfast,
Shared among early birds,
Minded with fresh beginnings,
Dreamed, dared to be lived,
Knowing it takes hours,
Twelve plus twelve to count,
Before being dragged to a new reality,
Only breath to be thanked,
That keeps souls in heaps,
Of life lived on new days.
Andrea Myinga is a Tanzanian, poetry editor at Triune magazine, dedicating part of his time to writing poems to celebrate his talent. He is using a poetic language in its richness to express his thoughts, feelings and understanding of his immediate and remote environment. His writings are a mixture of imagination and concrete ideas, blended together to produce a peculiar flavor inspired by his philosophical and religious studies. His poems have appeared in several online magazines like The Writers Space Africa (WSA), PoeticAfrica, The Kalahari Review, Literary Yard, Allpoetry, Hello Poetry, SpillWords, Power Poetry, Ibua journal, Poem Hunter and Ikike Arts. He has yet been featured into three anthologies: The Griots of Ubuntu; War in Ukraine; and Pack light: Memoirs of Growing Up in Africa.
Latest posts by Andrea Myinga (see all)
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