The Orchestra

Two poems about living and leaving a sensational legacy — from Tanzanian Andrea Myinga

The Orchestra

The bearers winding around,
With a Fallen in a casket,
With the weight in them, of the pasts,
Of a friendship, of his absence,
Cherished with the melodious sobs,

Bier gives to it a time of silence,
Before being sent to where they belong,
Where hymns find no ear at ease,

As these affairs have the stage,
Ears caught a stridor of a flatter,
Irritating the insides of the knowers,
The man’s life known to them,
They knew each other!

The Dreamers

The love for dreams
Has kept a sleeper intact
With the warmth of a bed,

The two made a couple,
Realised to make a home,
For hunger and his cousins,

And two more bedrooms,
Which mean for the beseechings,
As they keep knocking hourly,

The habitude is a disturbance,
To the seekers on the corridor,
Searching for the ridders,

To mount on the wishes,
Which have became horses,
With limbs hiking hastly,

But tactless beggars are won with fear,
Inapt to ride them to the stable.

Andrea Myinga is a Tanzanian who dedicates part of his time to write poems for celebration of his talent. He is using a poetic language in its richness to express his thoughts, feelings and understanding of his immediate and remote environment. His writings are a mixture of imaginations and concrete ideas as inspired by Philosophical studies which he has done. A reader is guaranteed with sensational, educational and relieving experience. His poems have appeared in several online magazines like The Writers Space Africa (WSA), PoeticAfrica, The Kalahari Review, Literary Yard, Allpoetry, Hello Poetry, Spill Words, Power Poetry, Ibua journal and Poem Hunter. He has yet been featured into three anthologies: The Griots of Ubuntu; War in Ukraine; and The Pack light: Memoirs of Growing Up in Africa. Reaches him through social medias, Facebook, Twitter (X) and on Medium Andrea Myinga where some of his works are found.