i've written a lot of poetry and half written a couple of novels. plus i've written three drum books (2 of them in the editing phase, one selling). here is a poem:
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There stood a king on a far off hill,[/FONT]
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A place the ‘Valley of the Thousand’ named,[/FONT]
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In a time when antelope outnumbered man[/FONT]
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And king George in distant England reigned.[/FONT]
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His skin was darker than iron wood,[/FONT]
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His flesh was hard as that wood in kind[/FONT]
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And sharper than his terrible spear,[/FONT]
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Were the battle workings of his mind.[/FONT]
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In a leaf he saw the shape of a blade,[/FONT]
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In a bull’s head he saw troop formation,[/FONT]
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And so, from a subordinate tribe, he made[/FONT]
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The Zulu such a mighty nation.[/FONT]
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That others fled before his Impi[/FONT]
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And even the gun-armed settlers were still.[/FONT]
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Though nations lay between the Cape and his army,[/FONT]
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The east wind scent was of fire and kill.[/FONT]
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And for all his cruelty and swathe of war,[/FONT]
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Without him the past would thunder darker.[/FONT]
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The great beetle of nNandi’s bellyful of shame -[/FONT]
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Lift ten thousand shields and cry: ‘SHAKA!’[/FONT]
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Copyright © Jason Horsler[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]25/03/02[/FONT]
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