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The Poetry of Robert Jones, Jr. Part 10
Forevermore Madiba-a tribute poem for Nelson Mandela
Forevermore madiba-a tribute poem for nelson Mandela-edited version
By:
Robert l. jones, jr.
(Osiris andwele chinelo)
This here exceedingly mournful broham-of-
Afrikanness be shonuff mustering forth some of his
Painfully lamenting expressions of mightily bemoaning
Angst-and-sorrow for the excellently dignified and
Valiantly lionhearted personage of a strikingly
Stalwart ambassador of enlivening hope and restless
Change, who done calmly-and-solemnly departed from
This ever-mutable and vicissitudinous dimension of
Tangibly earthen platitude-and-worldliness, but
Simultaneously be perdurably enduring throughout
That infinitely unceasing parameter of an immortally
Immutable transition from decaying dust into
alkebulan sainthood, and with them deeply fondest
Recollections of some righteously retrospective
Remembrance would a radically reminiscent revival
Of thoughtfully harvested bounty be so weightily
Impressionable upon my wildly stirred-up memory
Bank as my insightfully quickened and vastly
Revealing mind vision be greatly admiring and
Wholly appreciating the dynamically audacious
And profoundly gallant example of a supremely
Courageous comrade who was so phenomenally
Unafraid and so heroically intrepid with his
Heavily moral and socio-political grooves of earnestly
Debuting and zealously wrestling against that
Angrily volatile and hatefully irascible institution
Of purely diabolical segregation (famously recognized
In your historical chronicles and documentary
Archives-as-apartheid); yeah, there was surely the
Stoned epic and bravely venturesome vanguard of a
Human rights movement-in-action where the society-
Strengthening influence and uncompromisingly robust
Character of one dedicated black man done explosively
Begun the rousingly vitalized and feverishly kindled
Progressions of a sorely disenfranchised people’s
Liberating defenses of combating defiance, and a
Shonuff entire nation of daringly bold-and-gritty offshoots-
Of-cush were gutsily bumrushing like soldiered-up
Tribes of augustly valorous bravado against the
Unbearably oppressive tirades and those wickedly
Denunciatory tactics of a strictly Europeanized
Stronghold of devil-delegating chaos, which, [like a
Carelessly crude-and-unruly beast-of-the-field], was
Vilely-and-shamelessly excreting its prejudicially
Repugnant dung of separate-and-unequal craziness
All-over-the-place, and that disgustingly malodorous
Scent of sinfully reeking nastiness done emanated
Itself heavenward as overwhelmingly foul-and-putrid
Vapors of ethically rancid and wrongfully repulsive
Funk, and the perfectly hallowed and thoroughly holy
Nostrils of original divinity were so irefully
Offended and so massively outraged by their ever-
Loathsome gases of unrighteously domineering
Spite, strife-and-bigotry, so, thusly, in his hastily
Delivering mode of humanity-rescuing reparation
Did he compassionately re-visit his achingly raw and
Bitterly afflicted people in the regally charismatic
And royally enthusiastic embodiment of father madiba, and
He surely entered into that highly vociferating
Scene of southern afrikana honor-and-auspiciousness,
As he done vibrantly appeared unto his own Nubian
Families and cyrenean communities with the strongly
Uttered messages of absolutely limitless freedom and
Ultimately unbridled liberty-for-all, and with that
Truly cool-and-sophisticated stature of some handsomely
Crowning respect-for-self did he brightly emerge
Forth as a fervently anarchistic messiah who
Was officially sent from the everlastingly expansive
Glories of scintillating sovereignty and was evidently
Brought along this cerebral-and-anatomical plain of
Emotional feeling and evolving consciousness so that he
Could successfully be in that ardently pursuing
Business of masterfully exalting his ebony siblings
Of the shekinah sun with the clarion-voiced and
Trumpet-tongued declaration of monumentally arising
Pride and undying confidence-in-us, and this exceptionally
Praiseworthy and awesomely imposing specimen of
Tremendously empowering strength-and-fortitude
Was always in that soulfully redolent hipness of
Steadily persevering and diligently fighting like a
World champion boxer for that much desired and
Deservingly coveted outcome of gravely mistreated
And horribly abused sisters-and-brothers becoming totally and
Completely emancipated from the social, psychological-and-
Even spiritual shackles-and-chains of racially insane
Tyranny and skin color-obsessive terrorism, and deeply
Within the hugely momentous immensity of his vastly
Magnanimous demands for paradigm-shifting
Justice-and-impartiality, there would, nevertheless, be
That ravenously fetid vulgarity and the unusually
Maddening fierceness of some rabidly evil and stoned
Devious adversaries who done committed that most
Outrageously deranged thing of viciously subjecting our
Premier-and-preeminent pioneer of revolutionary
Struggle underneath the falsely incarcerating matrix
Of a twenty seven-year-long nexus with the imprisoning
Vexation of sun-beating hardships and distressfully
Inflicting tribulations, but despite all of those
Dismally turbid decades of darkly circumscribing
Torment and shonuff excruciating discomfort did
Daddy afrika remain so remarkably steadfast
Like mighty Kilimanjaro upon the sternly resolute
Bedrock of his nobly baaaaaaaad-and-egalitarian
Principles and those caringly established fundamentals
Of earth-healing love-and-understanding, and while the
Eternally evanescent essence of a forevermore
Transient twentieth century was once so sagaciously
Present in the calendaring locus of yester-millennial
Vitality, a cheerfully anticipating ocean of openly
Optimistic eyes were so blessedly fortunate in globally
Witnessing the miraculous resurgence of a joyously
Revivifying renaissance, as papa Mandela was
Finally released [like a newly manumitted bird of
Majestically flighted exuberance] from the heinously
Jailing abyss of his terribly cruel and hellish cell with
The uppermost armament of manfully undaunted
Victory-and-triumph, and with a tightly fisted-up duress
Of happily exultant merriment in the indigo atmosphere
Did an ever-surmounting partisan of neighborly
Solidarity done marched forth vivaciously to the
Perfectly jazz-a-sonic vibrations of a masakela
Prophecy, which songfully prognosticated that
Musically revelatory jam of sir nelson walking out
Positively self-assured as an invincibly
Indigenous king upon the beautifully democratic
Terrains of an ancient motherland’s ebon-exquisite
Earth and it was furthermore and bounteously predicted
With the irrefutably fulfilling fervor of an accurately
Spoken prognosis when this benevolent rebel of
System-rearranging force-and-virtue would winsomely
Attain his gloriously exalted calling in becoming the
Prudently elevated and the wiseheartedly elected
Personification of an effectually grand and reverently honored
President [for world-bettering togetherness and kinfolk-
Uniting good will-for-everybody]; indeed, it would be
All of these noteworthily acclaimed and praiseworthily
Uplifting makings of an outstandingly acknowledged and
Uprightly venerated legacy, which even in this tenderly
Sensitive and dolefully sobering moment-in-time do we
Also cherishingly apprize and celebrate on like an
Internationally extolling assembly of icon-apotheosizing
Gaiety, for in those exceedingly mournful manifestations
Of cascading tears and melancholic grief shall
Surprisingly gladdened-out reflections of endlessly
Overflowing thanks-and-gratitude be richly bestowed
In eulogizing devotion and gratefully allocated effigy
Unto that excellently dignified, valiantly lionhearted,
Strikingly stalwart and all-around phenomenal impetus
For enlivening hope and restless change, whom we
Knowingly and lovingly regard-as-madiba
(forevermore)///
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