No problem Rene. Great to know it's you. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Baba

On Jul 22, 2016 8:30 PM, <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>
> Baba, I am sorry that I did not sign the poem. Also, for some reason my
> email address did not appear in the post.
>
> Rene
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Baba Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Fri, Jul 22, 2016 4:17 pm
> Subject: Re: [G_L] The Visitation
>
> Thank you Sir/Madam, for a very nice poem and the hope-inspiring words.
> Yes, it is high time that Gambians use the arts to protest, depict and
> preserve for posterity what is going on in our country. I hope to read more
> from you. Thanks a lot.
>
> Warm regards,
> Baba
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 3:27 PM, <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Baba, I pen this poem a couple of hours ago to compliment your efforts in
> using your creative abilities to highlight the political problem and
> predicament the Gambia is facing. May be this should usher in the birth of
> a creative arts renaissance in which Gambians will use the creative arts,
> poetry, prose, music and the performing arts, like theatre and writing
> plays that will depict the realities of the Gambian situation.
>
>
> The wind blows
> and caress your face
> the rivulets stream
> and fertile the ground
> the voice of hope
> a salutation at your door
> embrace it; open the door wide open.
>
> The rivulets stream
> and the ground is fertile
> the wind echoes
> the power behind your back
> the voice of hope assures
> that you take a stand
> open the door
> and be intimate with the visitation.
>
> The ground is fertile
> ready to conceive
> at the womb of oppression and repression
> the cruel pains of wickedness and evil
>
> which scared your face
> which silence your voice
> which fear makes you hide
> it is the labor of your conscience
> the pangs of something new to be born.
>
> The wind blows
> and caress your face
> the rivulets stream
> and fertile the ground
> the wind echoes
> the power behind your back
> the voice of hope assures
> that you take a stand
> your door is wide open
> Now is the time
> something new is to be born.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Baba Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wed, Jul 20, 2016 9:13 pm
> Subject: [G_L] Sad Clouds
>
> *Sad Clouds*
>
> O man of power
>
> Do you not see the pain
>
> In the eyes
>
> Of all those grieving souls
>
> Staring straight at you
>
> Do you not hear the screams
>
> Of all the trees and birds and lizards
>
> The anguished pleas
>
> Of the fleas and the bees
>
> Buzzing around you
>
> Do you not hear
>
> The violent protests
>
> Of the earth
>
> Everywhere you go
>
> Do you not hear the cries
>
> Of abused power
>
> From the silent hell
>
> Of violent history
>
> Do you not see the sadness
>
> On the faces
>
> Of the passing clouds
>
> As they watch you fall
>
> From the blows of
>
> Your own power
>
> *-Baba*
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