Saturday, August 4, 2007

The kaarangoni...

Scared were we …
Seeing…
not a monster…
not a wolf…
not any evil supernatural events…

But a NEWS PAPER collector!!!

Scared were we…
Not because he looked scary…
We would never say he is….
As we have never seen him before…

Scared were we…
As we have been told…
He kidnaps children…
Who wander off without their parents…
Who hate to study and disobeys elders…

“KARANGONI…KAARANGONI…”

Here he comes now…
No need to be scared…
As we are safely under our bed…
He will never be able to find us now…

Will he???

1 comment:

Mrs Venod said...

Nila,
This poem is HILARIOUS! My grandma used to threaten to sell us off to the karangoni if we misbehaved! Thanks for the poem!