The gear changer
Running out of
Oxygen, burning out
When contenders feel like
Dropping dead,
In an unexampled manner
Summoning a vestige
Of energy
Bringing into play
A new strategy,
Miruts Yifter Ethiopia's
Olympic legend
Used to surge ahead
Demonstrating a race
Is a sport of foot,lung
And head.
That is why
A commentator
Christened him
“Mirutse Yifter
The gear changer!”
“I dare say
Catching up...
Thursday 29th December 2016 12:44 pm
A maverick seen mentally sick
Parking his car
By the gate of a hospital
A man got into a bar,
From an eye-shot
Not far!
After a thief unfastened
The 4 bolts of a tyre,
The sale of which
Helps him make his day,
Seeing the owner
Approaching,
With the four bolts
He ran away.
Stranded, the owner
Was forced there to stay
At a loss what to do
And say!
"If you take a bolt
A tyre from the
Remaining three,
...
Monday 26th December 2016 5:55 am
The Christmas Guest/By Helen Stiner Rice/ የ ገና እንግዳ/Translation in Amharic Alem Hailu G/Kristos
It happened one day at the year’s white end,
Two neighbors called on an old-time friend
And they found his shop so meager and mean,
Made gay with a thousand boughs of green,
And Conrad was sitting with face a-shine
When he suddenly stopped as he stitched a twine
And said, “Old friends, at dawn today,
When the cock was crowing the night away,
The Lord appeared in a dream to me
And said, ‘I...
Friday 23rd December 2016 2:49 pm
A genius taken for a dummy!
In musical notes composing
Ethiopia's giant
Saint Yared , irate, once
Opted to run away
From an ecclesiastical school
Dubbed by his priest teacher
An idiot and a fool
Worse still
Looked down and ridiculed
By class mates, not cool.
Desirous to burn his boat
He Trekked past a forest
And a pool
Determined never
To see those
Who cherish to pull
Over his eyes the wool.
Tired,he t...
Friday 23rd December 2016 7:11 am
You break anew to make
A boy asked God
"Could you please
give me patience? "
God to the boy
"I will send to you challenge! "
The boy to God
"I think we are not
On the same page
When I asked
You for patience
It is not for a change! "
God to the boy
"Patience presupposes hassle,
In the remoulding
Process to render you
Tolerant and gentle!"
Boy to God
"Yes hassle
To change
The pee...
Wednesday 21st December 2016 2:40 pm
The acid test of love's intensity
"Even for a fraction of a second
You, I don't want to miss!
In dancing attendance on you
I will never be remiss!"
This was your pledge
When in an eye-opener
Romance we were on
The same page.
Also it was your
Wont uttering
"Allow me please,
Now and then,
On your dainty lips
To plant a kiss!"
Putting at risk my health
Passing through
The valley of death
I gave you an offspring
...
Saturday 17th December 2016 6:47 am
Men’s true measure((Ben Jonson)/Translation in Amharic/Alem/የሰው ትክክለኛ መስፈርት
It is not like a tree
In bulk doth make man better be,
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year
To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sere,
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night—
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see
And in short measures life may perfect be.//
የሰው ትክክለኛ መስፈርት
እንደዛፍ መግዘፍ
ሠውን አያደርገውም...
Friday 16th December 2016 10:27 am
Fresh 2 decades later
Although fate,
Distance and time
Cruelly put asunder
You an indifferent girl
And I a self concious
Boy lover
Two decades later,
Lately ,I saw you
A mesmeric lady
With a son
And a daughter,
Full of life
And laughter.
Once again
Your voice
In my cloud
Shrouded heart
Rang a bell
To a paradise
That could
Change a hell.
Your sunrise
"I know you exist!" smile
Still has power
...
Thursday 15th December 2016 2:13 pm
The double faced
One can use
A knife to chop
A potato or a tomato.
Also getting off track
On can use it
To stab people
In the back!
Nations can harness
Nuclear to generate power
To eliminate all
Or to tear down many
A tower.
The double-faced
Supper powers
That uphold imperialism
To meet their ends
Subtly cultivate
And promote terrorism.
They condemn it
Only if it rains
Havoc they
Don'...
Thursday 15th December 2016 2:10 pm
Fidel(Faithful/Fiddle)
By Alem Hailu
Tearing off
Imperialists' mantle
True to his name Fidel
He had lit
To the oppressed mass
And to those in the dark
An much-needed candle.
Weighing things from
Fraternity's angle
And the truth,
Fidel was not remiss
In dispatching own troops
In far off beyonds
To fortify for freedom
Mounted battle.
Considerate Fidel had taught
Innu...
Friday 9th December 2016 1:48 pm
A White House or A Farce House ?
Awe inspired
While the whole world was
Expecting a
Brilliant lady
In a white-house
Drawing a blank
It witnessed a
Clown in a Farce
House,where
With the rob of Democracy
Takes stage Autocracy!
If spoken must
Be the truth
The revolting unfolding
Augurs ill to the youth,
The successors,
The task forces of
A given nation,
Who deserves
A better attention
To take the nation
To a n...
Saturday 12th November 2016 6:31 am
A"Wicked woman'"From a Wicked Man
That "Wicked woman!"
Is a wicked utterance
From a wicked man
Clowning, who plan
To get every possible
& oblivious voter a fan!
A wicked man
Revoltingly believes
Women are wicked
Oblivious he is
Out to slaughter
His sister, mother
,wife and daughter !
What a trash
What a trash
A folly that leads
A great, all-accommodating
And democracy-upholding Nation
To a lapse or a deadl...
Tuesday 8th November 2016 2:47 pm
Breaking the double yoke
For ages
Saddled with
Domestic chores
Confined in doors
With a traditional muzzle
Devoid of a voice
With fellow housewives
We were sweltering
Under the class
And gender yoke
Seen weak though
We were strong as a rock.
Things taking
A positive turn,
When people about
Women's potential
Came to learn,
Enjoying a level ground
And expertise,
An outshining
Women farmers
We have beg...
Tuesday 20th September 2016 3:18 pm
Divergent Paths
Though among the chosen,
Judah opted to cross floor,
Out of his way,
Heading to the path of the fallen!
In a spectacular way
Breaking loose from
The tight grip of the fallen,
Mary Magdalene braved
The ardours track of the chosen!
Heedless to a heavenly
Crown at hand,
Judah hankered
For a monetary reward,
While giving attention
To soul's worth,
Mary Magdalene
Gave a re...
Wednesday 31st August 2016 3:34 pm
A linchpin that doesn't fit the axle!
The hardest way
It came to my head,
If a linchpin doesn't fit
The axle,
It is as good as dead!
An honest man
Amidst many a ragamuffin
Is just like one the last nail
Is hit on whose coffin!
Thursday 28th July 2016 4:04 pm
A toothless face
Slavishly touting laudatory
Remarks that
Run counter to his belief
Could not let a journalist
A moment's relief!
"The incumbent
Has flickered
Darkness piercing light
Now as things are bright
None stop
We have to condemn the past
To catapult the present
On the infallible mast!"
Conveying messages
Without beef,
Also forced to turn
Eyes, to reality, deaf,
He is smote by
Excruc...
Tuesday 19th July 2016 7:55 am
Diffrent toungues but the same speech
Though they have
Different tongues
All religions
Have the same speech,
Peace,Love, Considerateness
And Hope
Are what each preach!
Is it not then
A glitch
Under the guise of religion
To teach
"Spell death!'
To s/he who has
a different faith!///
Friday 15th July 2016 2:18 pm
Love has a timeless appeal
A faded rose
Retains its
Fragrance for the nose!
At a train station
Something exemplary
Drew my attention
I saw an old man
Kissing his aged wife
"Love of my Life!"
Thursday 30th June 2016 8:08 am
You too will be a victim
When you hear
Others back biting
Your friend
Listen assured,you too,
On the morrow,
Will be a victim to the trend!
Wednesday 22nd June 2016 4:22 pm
A kickback is not expected!
There is nothing so stupid
As arguing with the stupid
An eye for an eye
One mustn't kickback an ass!
Wednesday 22nd June 2016 4:21 pm
It could buy the priceless life
Though life is priceless
And invaluable,
To be frank,
The blood, one donates
To a blood bank,
An oasis in
Life-devoid desert
A delivering mother's
An accident victim's
A nation defending
Soldier's life
Helps to regain back!
What a lofty task!
What a lofty task!
Donating the resilient blood
Does not affect
Our health's statuesque,so
Once in a while
Let us learn,to a nearb...
Thursday 16th June 2016 3:08 pm
A Genuine Friend(Revised)
S/he who
Our amity loves to cherish,
S/he who
The fulfilment of my wish
Has a bent to relish,
S/he who
Serves me a right arm
To parry,towards me,
Inflicted harm,
S/he who
Like a mirror
When I err
Gently draws my attention
To self-image
Tarnishing error,
S/he who
Basks in my success
Than covertly prove
An enemy adverse,
S/he who
Like a wolf in a sheep skin
With my clo...
Tuesday 7th June 2016 1:12 pm
Loss amplifies the merit of the missed
A sudden power outage
Rams home
Light's advantage!
What is exactly meant
By inexorable grief,
Dawned on me
Off my guard
When you
Turned brief,
Setting my heart afire
With anguish
That knows not a relief!
What a dead or dump nose
That doesn't sense
Death hovers close!
That is why
Oblivious to facts on the ground
I stuck to"Forever together!"
Yet,happily
The Almighty lends
...
Saturday 4th June 2016 12:42 pm
Liberating the mind before the land
From formative years
To adulthood serfs-baited
Servants ill-treated
From their means
Of existence alienated,
It is with hatred
From- serfdom- of- every-kind
-the- newly -unshackled heads'
Formatted!
Though their much-lamented land
Has come back to their hand
Tardy,their mind proves not free,
That is why they engage
In a killing spree!
Worse still death to all, allies
Inclusive,t...
Tuesday 3rd May 2016 4:07 pm
The better evil (revised)
Intimidated by political tugs
Prone to insert in one's mouth
The nose of a loaded gun
Or suspend a plastic bottle full of water
On males' reproductive organ,
Devoid of freedom of expression
Also denied to his right and
Deplorable condition drawing attention
Shunning his God chosen land,
What is more a bright and warm country
Under the sun ,a journalist dreaming began
Fighting al...
Monday 18th April 2016 2:27 pm
Stop Licking A Wound!
Cute girl, a dove
You grew up expectant
Of an inviolable love.
But,know there are things
You should, such as
Unfold the unexpected could.
Cute girl, ingratiatingly enjoying
A green light
To the citadel of your girlhood
At the height of your virginal beauty
Holding you close nude
Adept in creating the required mood,
A fickle womanizer may
Suddenly leave you for good!
Sist...
Monday 28th March 2016 9:44 am
A king born
Once upon a time
There was an old king
Who used to worry
About one thing
'Surely one day
I will pass away!'
As many me advise
Among my sons
The wise
An heir
Must take over
To govern
My subjects better.
Next to God,
To corporeal things
Who is above,
I want to check
The strength of
My sons' filial love.
Thus his sons he called
...
Thursday 10th March 2016 12:03 pm
A Herd Mentality
If one pulls
A sheep astray
The flock is sure
To move that way.
To fish in a troubled water
De-constructing history
Thwart we could
The old social fabric of unity
And create we shall
A generation
Suffering a crisis of identity!
“Ask me not why
They are better than
My peers and I
Also sensitize me not to deny,
What I see with my naked eye!
In attire,grooving,life style ,
Cosme...
Monday 29th February 2016 6:28 am
Realizing His kingdom
Foolishly bold
Abnegating God
To get attention
Famous by
A negative association
Is moral degradation.
The beginning of wisdom
Is realizing His kingdom.
Thursday 18th February 2016 8:43 am
Expect us not to believe
Expect us not to believe
You could miraculously fetch
Water with a sieve!
Till we return to dust
You, nothing better than a rust,
Could not quench our thirst.
Collecting taxes
Without combing out lechers
That spare not even the broke
Or the stone to siphon
Rather has an impact adverse,
For it is allowing few
Nation's wealth unfairly amass
At a cost of harm to
The credulous and ...
Friday 12th February 2016 6:17 am
Inequalities of all shades(revised)
Inequality of all shades
By Alem Hailu
Though in dexterity my physically challenged carpenter father,
Than the physically fit proves better,as a source to his anger,
With contemporaries a level ground he enjoyed never!
From late childhood there was one thing that me used to bother, why my so discriminated father
On his turn true to cultural dictates,ill treats my d...
Tuesday 9th February 2016 12:54 pm
Inequalities of all shades(revised)
Though in dexterity my physically challenged carpenter father,
Than the physically fit proves better,as a source to his anger,
With contemporaries a level ground he enjoyed never!
From late childhood there was one thing that me used to bother, why my so discriminated father
On his turn true to cultural dictates,ill treats my domestic chores saddled mother
And heeds not her s...
Monday 8th February 2016 8:43 am
Ego-rocking words
It will be futile
To gather you into my arm
While my virility with
Ego-rocking words you harm!
Saturday 6th February 2016 11:56 am
Must Your Gratitude Be A Knife?
On top of my labour
In the farmyard
I often proffer you
Milk, cheese, manure and hide
To render grand
Your life,
Then how come
You express
Your gratitude
With a knife?
Wednesday 3rd February 2016 3:25 pm
Is Capable to Mar
With your sweet lips,
On which oft
I yearn to plant a kiss,
Slander me not please!
My lodestar
You must know
A drop of gal
The wellspring of honey
Is capable to mar!
Tuesday 26th January 2016 12:36 pm
Opted To Escape
Back in shape
Life's unilateral
And busy train
Opted to escape.
Opted life to escape
While I was
Dreaming about
An elixir
Or some sort of help!
Saturday 16th January 2016 2:44 pm
Youth
Lured by your
Elegant posture
When at its best
Appears nature,
Replete with optimism
Courage and adventure,
All welcome you
To lament and bemoan
Your quick departure!
Thursday 14th January 2016 1:53 pm
What a dialogue !
Life -->Death
"Why do
People see your
Behaviour uncouth?"
Death-->Life
"It is simple
You are
A savoury falsehood,
While I
A bitter truth!"
Saturday 2nd January 2016 1:28 pm
Don't mistake me for a fool
When you find me by choice cool
Mistake me not for a fool.
If there is a need for being cruel
I could over your eyes pull the wool
With out- heroding- herod's tool.
Unless imbeciles like you
Get a first hand knowledge
What is meant by
A gal-hearted revenge
Or inflicted damage
As goes the adage
"A ball in a China shop!"
They gloat creating
Many a wreckage,
Harbouring a grudge
T...
Friday 1st January 2016 11:14 am
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