My Just And Corruption Free Nation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FDGHI JKLMNOO DIPQM BPCRP ISTDPUV WXGYP ZA2LB2C2D2E2F2 PXG2| What a beautiful nation we have | A |
| What a lovely nation Kenya is | B |
| A nation with contented citizens | C |
| A nation that is admired by everyone | D |
| A nation with only patriots | E |
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| A country that is very strict | F |
| In tax collection | D |
| Collecting from a green grocer | G |
| But exempting the haves | H |
| Senators governors and even ministers | I |
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| A nation that caters for its citizens dreams | J |
| Promising jobs to the youths | K |
| With for years of struggle | L |
| and hard work in universities | M |
| their certificates rot in their houses | N |
| finding only one type of a job | O |
| looking for a job | O |
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| Such a great and beautiful nation | D |
| Rich in qualified medical officers | I |
| Who get clean money | P |
| Their pay originating from | Q |
| Terminating innocent unborn babies | M |
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| A nation with dedicated defense forces | B |
| Aware of their duty in the country | P |
| Protecting and giving security to the citizens | C |
| But to them bullets are a punishment | R |
| Killing citizens being a silent duty | P |
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| A state with the best pastors | I |
| Priests and bishops all very religious | S |
| Those who preach for cash | T |
| And their greatest mission | D |
| Winning souls to immorality | P |
| Go ye and make people my disciples | U |
| Never in them | V |
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| A nation where | W |
| A person is jailed for stealing sugarcane | X |
| Due to hunger | G |
| But someone who is involved | Y |
| in a billion loot set free | P |
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| A country with millionaires | Z |
| Whose source of wealth | A2 |
| Very much questionable | L |
| Millionaires who have enriched themselves | B2 |
| From the Corona Virus pandemic | C2 |
| Looting money meant for | D2 |
| Sanitizers and masks | E2 |
| To help the poor and also prevent its spread | F2 |
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| A nation where lies hypocrisy | P |
| and oppression reign | X |
| And justice never exists | G2 |
Miriam Onyancha
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 08/25/2020
Poet's note: This is a poem criticizing evil deeds in the nation and encouraging those it addresses to stop their bad behavior
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Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke : Nice piece. The poem explores the plights of the Kenyan people. It satires the political, social, cultural and religious problems that have bedeviled the society in Kenya.
The African regions share similar experiences. The problem of Africa in by and large is leadership problem. Our leaders are cantankerous and visionless. They are selfish and self centered. Nigeria as a country have similar issues too. Hope is our only consolation. We are praying and believing that God will deliver us someday.
Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke : This is superb. An ironical poem that captures the political, social and cultural subjugation in Kenya. Africa as a continent faces similar problems. Our leaders are cantankerous and visionless. They have no human conscience. Their greed will dig their graves. We in Nigeria are facing similar problems. Lets keep praying and believing that God will deliver us someday.
sharly K: appreciated your poem reflecting on the subjugation of the many by the few!
Just studying Thomas Hardy today and he reflected at the end of his life 1928 - (paraphrasing) that he had lost all hope for the Western civilisation in their degneracy and he hoped that the 'blacks' and the 'yellows' would take over and have their chance to do a better job! What would he have made of things that have happened since, just short of a century on?!?!?
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