Friday, November 26, 2010

STRONG ENOUGH: ROMANTIC SORROW POETRY- BY MARISEN MWALE

WOULD YOU BE STRONG ENOUGH…
Inspired by Sherly Crow & Stevie Nicks’ ‘ARE YOU STRONG ENOUGH TO BE…..’
Like a soldier in the midst of combat I am of courage by default
And to risk my genre- these scars of war just blind testimony
To the chances you would commit your little poor soul to
 Yet the big question still remains
Whether you would be strong enough to be my girl

You may concoct alibis redound
You may make me feel like I was on top of the world
Because fortitude to me is like a sinister byword
Yet to query myself will remain that blatant pastime-puzzle
Whether you would be strong enough to be my girl

When I am torn between duty and romance
When like an irate gorilla to thee a blind shoulder I seem to turn
And it feels like I no longer cared
Would you be strong enough to be my girl?

When the rules of engagement dictate home I shouldn’t stay
When it feels like I was just like chasing the wind
And home I came crippled, lost, maimed, and half-human
Would you be strong enough to be my girl?

When I would be broke and penniless
When to carter for your material desires I no longer would afford
And it felt like the world had come to an abrupt end
Would you be strong enough to be my girl?

Marisen Mwale
RANTS OF THE GODFATHER
Alas- seems I m damn caught up
entrapped in the midst of a political conspiracy
a politburo spider’s web of miasmic vengeance
a gross paranoia
its political farce I know it and l  love it for real
so l assemble all my arsenal
psyche or otherwise
to emerge scot-free and a deserved victor
but!!!!!!!!!
thence l drool
thence l salivate for more pressure
for more hellfire
jig and capper---dance l do
for that’s my genre
my chessboard-
political gambit
political gimmicking- ndare
is but my byword my pastime-hobby
everybody who dares jump into
who dares tromp into my arena
is smug Technical Knock-out
is blatant checkmate
they have dared play tha game with the Godfather
tha MAESTRO
they have dared declare psyche war
to the world’s greatest psyche superpower
thence they will come out scathed
like they been in hellshit
they will piss
they will fart
them gonna see spooks for its tit for tat
them gonna regret and gnash teeth
like nobody’s concern
Thus sayth tha GODFATHER.

Marisen Mwale
POETRY OF SORROW

DEATH

All I can hear is but silence
All I can see is but darkness
All I can smell is but crimson
All I feel is but an empty void
Silence, darkness, crimson, empty void
Such is but the languor of cold-blooded death

Marisen Mwale


















Wednesday, November 24, 2010

RANTS OF THA GODFATHER: POLITICAL POETRY BY MARISEN MWALE

RANTS OF THE GODFATHER
BY
MARISEN MWALE

Alas- seems I m damn caught up
entrapped in the midst of a political conspiracy
a politburo spider’s web of miasmic vengeance
a gross paranoia
its political farce I know it and l  love it for real
so l assemble all my arsenal
psyche or otherwise
to emerge scot-free and a deserved victor
but!!!!!!!!!
thence l drool
thence l salivate for more pressure
for more hellfire
jig and capper---dance l do
for that’s my genre
my chessboard-
political gambit
political gimmicking- ndare
is but my byword my pastime-hobby
everybody who dares jump into
who dares tromp into my arena
is smug Technical Knock-out
is blatant checkmate
they have dared play tha game with the Godfather
tha MAESTRO
they have dared declare psyche war
to the world’s greatest psyche superpower
thence they will come out scathed
like they been in hellshit
they will piss
they will fart
them gonna see spooks for its tit for tat
them gonna regret and gnash teeth
like nobody’s concern
Thus sayth tha GODFATHER.

MAESTRO MAXIMS BY MARISEN MWALE

DON’T PLAY GAMES WITH AND DECLARE PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE ON ME AND FORCE ME TO DO THE INEVITABLE BY ALLYING MYSELF WITH YOUR ARCH ENERMIES BECAUSE I HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO NOT ONLY DESTROY YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE ARSENAL BUT THE WHOLE UNIVERSE.

THE MAESTRO REVOLUTION

GENERAL MAESTRO
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PATRIOT AND A REBEL, A CORRUPT AND INNOCENT PERSON, A HERO AND VILLAIN; DEPENDS ON WHO IS IN POWER AT THE MOMENT.

THE MAESTRO REVOLUTION

FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL PASS A HARSH JUDGEMENT ON A GENERATION THAT LOOKED AT THE EVIDENCE ON HIV/AIDS, UNDERSTOOD THE CONSEQUENCES AND THEN CONTINUED ON A PATH THAT CONSIGNED MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF THE WORLDS’S MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TO BEAR THE DISPROPORTIONATE BRUNT OF AN UNPARALLELED GENOCIDE.
MAESTRO MAXIMS
IN ARISTOTELIAN TERMS, THE GOOD LEADER MUST HAVE ETHOS, PATHOS AND LOGOS. THE ETHOS IS HIS MORAL CHARACTER, THE SOURCE OF HIS ABILITY TO PERSUADE. THE PATHOS IS HIS ABILITY TO TOUCH FEELINGS, TO MOVE PEOPLE EMOTIONALLY. THE LOGOS IS HIS ABILITY TO GIVE SOLID REASONS FOR AN ACTION, TO MOVE PEOPLE INTELLECTUALLY.
MORTIMER ADLER
U.S. philosopher
PARA WAFWA IFWE TAFWA BECAUSE YOU ARE OUR ONLY
HOPE
THE MAESTRO REVOLUTION


EVERY LEADER HAS HIS SILVER TINT AND DARKER SIDE- KAMUZU HAD HIS TWO FACES, SO HAD MULUZI AND BINGU INEVITABLY SO. THREE MALAWIAN LEADERS, FUSED INTO ONE MELTING POT TO GROOM A FORMIDABLE DYNAMIC LEADER WHO COMMANDS NOT ONLY LOGOS BUT PATHOS AND ETHOS IN ARISTOTELIAN TERMINOLOGY.
  
  THE MAESTRO REVOLUTION
GREATNESS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MORALITY. A LEADER GETS PEOPLE TO FOLLOW HIM. NAPOLEON LED THE FRENCH TO CATASTROPHE, BUT THEY FOLLOWED HIM ALMOST TO THE END. MARLBOROUGH AND WELLINGTON HAD GREATNESS. AND HITLER, UNFORTUNATELY. AL CAPONE WAS A LEADER IN A PRIMITIVE ENVIRONMENT.

CORRELLI BARNET
BRITISH MILITARY HISTORIAN
THERE CAN BE NO HAPPINESS IF THE THINGS WE BELIEVE IN ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE THINGS WE DO.
FREYA STARK
TOO MANY PEOPLE OVERVALUE WHAT
THEY ARE NOT AND UNDERVALUE WHAT THEY ARE….

MALCOM S FORBES
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SCHOOL AND LIFE-- IN SCHOOL, YOU ARE TAUGHT A LESSON AND THEN GIVEN A TEST. IN LIFE, YOU ARE GIVEN A TEST THAT TEACHES YOU A LESSON.

TOM BODETT


DEVELOP COURAGE. COURAGE IS DEFINED: MENTAL OR MORAL STRENGTH; TO VENTURE, PERSEVERE AND WITHSTAND, DANGER, FEAR OR DIFFICULTY; TO RESIST OPPOSITION OR HARDSHIP, FIRMNESS OF THE MIND AND WILL, IN THE FACE OF DANGER OR EXTREME DIFFICULTY- THE WORLD AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU NEED TO SEE COURAGE IN ACTION.

THE MAESTRO REVOLUTION



UPON OCCASION, REVEAL A HARMLESS DEFECT IN YOUR CHARACTER. FOR THE ENVIOUS ACCUSE THE MOST PERFECT OF SINNING BY HAVING NO SINS. THEY BECOME AN ARGUS, ALL EYES FOR FINDING FAULT WITH EXCELLENCE---IT IS THEIR ONLY CONSOLATION. DO NOT LET ENVY BURST WITH ITS OWN VENOM---AFFECT SOME LAPSE IN VALOUR OR INTELLECT, SO AS TO DISARM IT BEFOREHAND. YOU THUS WAVE YOUR RED CAPE BEFORE THE HORNS OF ENVY IN ORDER TO SAVE YOUR IMMORALITY.
    BALTASAR GRACIAM 1601/1658
[Spanish Jesuit]
WE CAN MASTER FEAR THROUGH ONE OF THE SUPREME VIRTUES……COURAGE…..COURAGE IS THE POWER OF MIND TO OVERCOME FEAR. UNLIKE ANXIETY, FEAR HAS A DEFINITE OBJECT WHICH MAY BE FACED, ANALYZED, ATTACKED, AND, IF NEED BE, ENDURED. HOW OFTEN THE OBJECT OF OUR FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR



NEVER APPEAR TOO PERFECT. APPEARING BETTER THAN OTHERS IS ALMOST DANGEROUS, BUT MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL IS TO APPEAR TO HAVE NO FAULTS OR WEAKNESSES. ENVY CREATS SILENT ENEMIES. IT IS SMART TO OCCASSIONALLY DISPLAY DEFECTS AND ADMIT TO HARMLESS VICES, IN ORDER TO DEFLECT ENVY AND APPEAR MORE HUMAN AND APPROACHABLE. ONLY THE DEAD CAN SEEM PERFECT WITH IMPUNITY.

ROBERT GREEN
48 LAWS OF POWER
ONE OF THE WORST THINGS A LEADER CAN DO IS EXPEND ENERGY ON TRYING TO MAKE OTHERS THINK HE IS PERFECT.

JOHN C MAXWELL
THE 360 DEGREES LEADER


IN THE END WE ONLY REGRET CHANCES WE DIDN’T TAKE, THE RELATIONSHIPS WE WERE SCARED TO HAVE AND THE DECISIONS
WE WAITED TOO LONG TO MAKE…..
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE FROM ATIJI WHITE PHIRI’S FACEBOOK
WOMEN GET PSYCHIC AS THEY AGE, YOU NEVER HAVE TO CONFESS YOUR SINS TO AN OLDER WOMAN. SHE ALWAYS KNOWS.

ANDY ROONEY



IN SMALL TOWNS, AND BIG CITIES WE CAME TOGETHER AS DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS AND INDEPENDENTS TO STAND UP AND SAY THAT WE ARE ONE NATION, WE ARE ONE PEOPLE AND OUR TIME FOR CHANGE HAS COME…..

BARACK OBAMA
WHEN ONE DOOR CLOSES ANOTHER OPENS. EXPECT THAT NEW DOOR TO REVEAL EVEN GREATER WONDERS AND GLORIES AND SURPRISES. FEEL YOURSELF GROW WITH EVERY EXPERIENCE. AND LOOK FOR REASON FOR IT.
EILEEN CADDY
A DANCING STAR
LIFE IS BUT A LEARNING EXPERIENCE.

THE MAESTRO REVOLUTION


BLESSED ARE THEY WHO CAN GIVE WITHOUT REMEMBERING, AND TAKE WITHOUT FORGETTING.
PRINCESS BIBESNO
A MAN WHO PAYS RESPECT TO THE GREAT PAVES THE WAY FOR HIS OWN GREATNESS.

THE MAESTRO REVOLUTION
A TRUE FRIEND IS HE WHO SURFACES AND SULVAGES YOU IN TIMES OF DIRE NEED AND UTTER DESPAIR.

MAESTRO MAXIMS
MONEY RULES THE WORLD- IT CAN BUY YOU GALS, BOOZ, HAPPINESS AND EVEN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.

MAESTRO MAXIMS
HE IS RICHEST WHO IS CONTENT WITH THE LEAST, FOR CONTENT IS THE WEALTH OF NATURE.

SOCRATES
      PROF. MAESTRO-
MASTER OF THE ART:
THE ART OF PSYCHOLOGY.


MAESTRO MAXIMS
SOMETIMES TO FIND TRUTH
ONE MUST MOVE MOUNTAINS.

DAN BROWN


IGNORANCE OF MANY THINGS IS EXPECTED.
TO KNOW YOU ARE IGNORANT OF MANY THINGS IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM.
TO KNOW A LIST OF THINGS OF WHICH YOU WERE IGNORANT IS TO NO LONGER BE IGNORANT.

ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF IGNORANCE

HE WHO KNOWS NOT AND KNOWS THAT HE KNOWS NOT IS A LEARNER- TEACH HIM.
HE WHO KNOWS NOT BUT THINKS HE KNOWS IS A LIAR- BEAT HIM.
HE WHO KNOWS NOT BUT KNOWS NOT THAT HE KNOWS NOT IS A FOOL – SHUN HIM.
I AM WISE BECAUSE I KNOW I AM FOOLISH.

SOCRATES
GENIUS ACCEPTS GENIUS UNCONDITIONALLY.

DAN BROWN


IF EVERYBODY MINDED THEIR OWN BUSINESS, THE WORLD WOULD GO ROUND A GREAT DEAL FASTER THAN IT DOES.
ERIC VAN LUSTRBADER
YOU SHOULD NOT BE OFFENDED IF SOMEONE SPEAKS ILL OF YOU BUT YOU SHOULD BE OFFENDED IF YOU SPEAK ILL OF SOMEONE.

MAESTRO MAXIMS



WHEN ONE IS ABLE TO SEE THE MATRIX FROM WHICH A PRECIOUS STONE IS TAKEN, ONE IS INVARIABLY BETTER ABLE TO JUDGE THE QUALITY OF THAT STONE.

ERIC VAN LUSTBADER

CREDO UT INTELLIGAM.
E PLURIBUS UNUM.
BENEDICUMUS DOMINO.
BARUKA SAMUNGU.

THE MAESTRO REVOLUTION


A MIND BECOMES A DETRIMENT WHEN IT ACQUIRES MORE INTELLIGENCE THAN ITS INTEGRITY CAN HANDLE.
ERIC VAN LUSTBADER
WE ALL WEAR MASKS TO HIDE WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO US.

ERIC VAN LUSTBADER

TO BE OR NOT TO BE A GENIUS:
THAT IS THE QUESTION.

PROF. MAESTRO

YOU WILL NEVER WALK ALONE:
WE ARE BEHIND YOU FOR THE SAKE OF JUSTICE.

THE MAESTRO REVOLUTION
GENERAL MAESTRO
DON’T WAGE A WAR AGAINST AN INNOCENT  BROTHER OR SISTER ON GROUNDS OF JEALOUSY OR ENVY- FANNING LIES INTO A BONFIRE OR MIASMA OF PARANOIA AGAINST HIM OR HER LEAST ONE DAY YOU BARY YOUR HEAD IN SAND FOR IT IS SAID WHATEVER YOU DO UNTO ANOTHER WHETHER GOOD OR BAD ALWAYS COMES BACK TO YOU SOONER OR LATER.
THE PROBLEM IS NOT THAT YOU ARE IGNORANT BUT THAT YOU WILL NEVER APPRECIATE THE DIFFERENCE AN EDUCATION CAN MAKE IN A MAN’S LIFE WHETHER HE BE OF HUMBLE BEGINNINGS OR NOT.

PROF MAESTRO
DON’T REMIND ME OF A HAPLESS PAST BUT TEACH ME SO I CAN BEHOLD A BRIGHTER FUTURE.

PROF MAESTRO
EXPERIENCE IS THE MOTHER OF ALL SCIENCES.

PROF MAESTRO

IT’S THE THINGS YOU DON’T DO THAT YOU REGRET MOST: THEY SAY TAKING RISKS IS THE GREATEST OF COURAGE- SO TAKE THE CHANCE AND GOD WILL GUIDE.

PROF MAESTRO

OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM IS ATTITUDE: WE NEED A MIRACULOUS PARADIGM SHIFT TO BE SALVAGED FOR IT IS SAID PRIDE AND PRECEDENT CANNOT OVERSHADOW REASON.

PROF MAESTRO
IT IS ONE OF THE BEAUTIFUL COMPENSATIONS OF THIS LIFE THAT NO ONE CAN SINCERELY TRY TO HELP ANOTHER WITHOUT HELPING HIMSELF.

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER [1873]
A GOOD TENET TO KEEP IN MIND THROUGHOUT LIFE IS
‘TO DO AS YOU WOULD BE DONE BY’

MAESTRO MAXIMS

MONEY MAY BUY THE HUSKS OF THINGS, BUT NOT THE KENNEL; IT BRINGS FOOD BUT NOT AN APPETITE; MEDICINE BUT NOT HEALTH; ACQUINTANCES BUT NOT FRIENDS; DAYS OF JOY BUT NOT PEACE AND HAPPINESS.

MAESTRO MAXIMS
THE ULTIMATE MEASURE OF A GREAT WOMAN IS NOT WHERE SHE STANDS IN MOMENTS OF COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE BUT WHERE SHE STANDS AT TIMES OF CHALLENGE AND CONTROVERSY.
MAESTRO MAXIMS

CHARACTER CANNOT BE DEVELOPED IN EASE AND QUITE, BUT THROUGH EXPERIENCES OF TRIAL AND SUFFERING CAN THE SOUL BE STRENGHTENED, VISION CLEARED, AMBITION INSPIRED AND SUCCESS ACHIEVED.

MAESTRO MAXIMS

THE BEST THING TO GIVE TO YOUR ENERMY IS FORGIVENESS; TO AN OPPONENT TOLERANCE; TO A FRIEND, YOUR HEART; TO YOUR CHILD, A GOOD EXAMPLE; TO A FATHER DEFERENCE; TO YOUR MOTHER, CONDUCT; TO YOURSELF RESPECT; TO ALL MEN, CHARITY.

MAESTRO MAXIMS

WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE: TRUE, HONEST, JUST, PURE, LOVELY AND OF GOOD REPORT- IF THERE BE ANY VIRTUE AND PRAISE- THINK OF THESE.

PHIL 4 VS 8.

MAESTRO MAXIMS

GIVE LOVE A CHANCE BUT DON’T LET PASSION OVERSHADOW DISCRETION- THAT BETTER PART OF VALOUR.

Prof Maestro-MARISEN


LOVE IS A BUTTERFLY, WHICH, WHEN PURSUED, IS ALWAYS JUST BEYOND YOUR GRASP, BUT WHICH, IF YOU WILL SIT DOWN QUITELY, MAY ALIGHT UPON YOU.

NATHANIEL HAWTHONE


EVEN THE MOST MUNDANE OBJECTS ARE THINGS OF WONDER IF WE STOP TO LOOK AT THEM, AND THE FACT THAT WE ARE ALIVE IS THE BIGGEST WONDER OF ALL.

DAVID FONTANA

WITHOUT RISK THERE IS NEVER THE POSSIBILITY FOR GLORY.

DAVID BALDACCI

TO BE WITHOUT DREAMS IS TO BE WITHOUT HOPE- TO BE WITHOUT HOPE IS TO BE WITHOUT PURPOSE.
Prof MALUWA BANDA
A MAN WITHOUT A VISION IS LIKE A BIRD WITHOUT WINGS- HE CANNOT FLY.

ASHIMOLOWO

THE GREATEST RESULTS IN LIFE ARE USUALLY ATTAINED BY SIMPLE MEANS AND THE EXERCISE OF ORDINARY QUALITIES.


JOHN RUSKIN 
NO MAN OF WOMAN CAN HIDE AN EVIL NATURE, IT ALWAYS SHOWS. A POET ONCE SAID THAT EYES ARE WINDOWS OF THE SOUL.

SIDNEY SHELDON


FACTS DON’T CEASE TO EXIST JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE IGNORED. SOMETIMES PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT THEIR ILLUSIONS DESTROYED.

WILLIAM DIEHL
NO MAN, FOR ANY CONSIDERABLE PERIOD CAN WEAR ONE FACE TO HIMSELF, AND ANOTHER TO THE MULTITUDE, WITHOUT FINALLY GETTING BEWILDERED AS TO WHICH MAY BE TRUE.
 
NATHANIEL HAWTHONE
HAPPINESS IS A STATE OF MIND-
 YOU NEVER CAN BE HAPPY UNTIL YOU MAKE YOURSELF TO BE.


MAESTRO MAXIMS

HAPPINESS IS NOT PERFECT UNTIL IT’S SHARED-
 WE ALL NEED TO SHARE OUR JOYS AND SORROWS.

MAESTRO MAXIMS
    

JUSTICE DOESN’T
ALWAYS WIN BUT
HOWEVER RENDERS
TO EVERY MAN HIS
DUE.

WILLIAM DIEHL
THE VALUE OF A MAN SHOULD BE SEEN IN WHAT HE GIVES AND NOT IN WHAT HE IS ABLE TO RECEIVE.

ALBERT EINSTEIN
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU DON’T WISH FOR- IT JUST MIGHT HAPPEN.

THE MAESTRO REVOLUTION

GENERAL MAESTRO
CHARACTER IS DESTINY.


MAESTRO MAXIMS


EVERYONE IS GUILTY OF SOMETHING. EVEN THE PRIEST’S LIFE IS AN OPEN BOOK.

Prof maestro-MARISEN


NURTURE YOUR MIND WITH GREAT THOUGHTS!
TO BELIEVE IN THE HEROIC MAKES HEROES.


DISRAELI

….if I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.


SIR ISAAC NEWTON 
AN EYE FOR AN EYE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND.

Mahatma Gandhi



AS SOON AS WE LOSE THE MORAL BASIS WE CEASE TO BE RELIGIOUS. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RELIGION OVER-RIDING MORALITY. MAN FOR INSTANCE, CANNOT BE UNTRUTHFUL, CRUEL, OR INCONSISTENT AND CLAIM TO HAVE GOD ON HIS SIDE.

Mahatma Gandhi   

KINDNESS IS A LANGUAGE THAT THE DEAF CAN HEAR AND THE BLIND CAN SEE.

GHANANIAN PROVERB



KNOWLEDGE WILL ALWAYS SPEAK LIKE SPEECH IS SILVEN AND WISDOM WILL ALWAYS LISTEN LIKE SILENCE IS GOLDEN.

PROF. MAESTRO-marisen
KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT
PROF. MAESTRO-marisen
APART FROM BEING GIFTED EXCEEDINGLY
AND
 MULTI-TALENTED-
WHICH IS MAESTRO’S GREATEST STRENGTH, HE IS ALSO ENDOWED WITH THE ABILITY TO LEARN FROM HIS MISTAKES AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND ABOVE ALL ELSE TO LEARN FROM OTHERS WHICH IS THE MAIN REASON HE IS WHERE HE IS TODAY.

PROF. MALUWA-BANDA
Disclaimer- [paraphrased]
IF GENIUS HAS GOT A NAME THEN IT HAS TO BE
PROF MAESTRO
     PROF MAESTRO-marisen
TRUE LOVE
IS
IMMORTAL…
LOVE WILL REALLY NEVER LIE.

PROF MAESTRO-marisen


IF I AM WHERE I AM TODAY IT IS BECAUSE I HAVE LISTENED AND LEARNT FROM OTHER PEOPLE

PROF MAESTRO-marisen

WORD OF WISDOM
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered
Forgive them anyway
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives
Be kind anyway
If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies
Succeed anyway
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you
Be honest and frank anyway
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight
Build anyway
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous
Be happy anyway
The good you do today people will often forget tomorrow
Be good anyway
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God
It was never between you and them anyway

MOTHER TERESA