TANZANIA Safari POETRY Continued (3): Poem 5 (of 16)
Poem 5 describes the most potent people experience—with the Masai. (Please don’t forget to check out the other Tanzania Safari Poetry blog posts before and after this one.)
5. Masai
Masai Masai everywhere
Truck in ditch
Makes them rich
One jeep pulls over to help another
Then smother smother
Children on backs of other children
The breast fed
The underfed
The snottied nose
The rings on toes
Picture, picture
Bracelet, bracelet
Haraka, haraka
Quickly, quickly
Little girls pushing sales
Make interesting tales.
Three or free
Hard to understand
From our end
Nothing planned
Clearly a routine
Can’t be mean
Dust fills the air
Nearly there
Tow chain breaks
Up go the stakes
3 jeeps hooked together
Now drizzly weather
2 pet dogs play
While in the company of the Masai we stay
Fantasies of passing the night in their huts
Could think of worse ruts
Small change spent
Time for the sinking sand to relent
Spontaneous visit done
A lot of fun
Everyone won.
