mardi 23 décembre 2008

Lucy Mythology: The meaning of you (Michael-AK2008)

I am the woman who walked the Earth first. I am the mother of all. My people call me Dinkinsh. It means you are amazing. Amazing is I am as, my home mother earth. The roof are my skies. Amazing is you my children, the way you turn out to be. I will tell you stories about how I came about and how everything came about. At first before I became, and before everything became everything existed in word. Everything existed in the primordial space and time singularity, the abyss. There was neither day nor night. The power of the creator dwelt in the abyss. The word was spoken, day and night separated

God called my name three times: Eve ! Eve! Eve!
Then I became. I touched the face of my creator. He spoke to me. I replied by the language of the creator. I called him my God. I asked God, why he called me three times and he replied. The first time was for the four elements. The second time was for the seven heavens, stars, the constellations and their leaders. The third time was for the animals and plants according to their sizes and dwellings. God instructed me to give name to everything I see, touch, hear, smell or taste. I named the four elements, air, fire earth and water. From these God created man. I called the man Adam. Adam spoke my language, he called me Dinkinesh

God said to me: “Let my power and the power of all the gods dwell in you”
He instructed me to name everything according to my wants and wishes. I named the stars, the constellations and their leaders. I named every animal, plant and every living creature. I named the four rivers, the mountains and the oceans. I named my children Ethiopians

dimanche 14 décembre 2008

This is Christmas to me Part I: Michael-AK 2008



This is Christmas to me: Part I Michael AK2008

Time to live again

A life recent, past and distant
Immortalized in my memories
My beloved uncle
Who taught me life lessons
That anchored me on a strong foundation
The realization of myself and
The meaning of me
Dear nephew he says:
You are a small sheaf of this universe
But an important piece that
You are the reflections
Of the people who love you

Time to live again

A life recent, past and distant
Immortalized in my memories
A great compound of picket fences
Filled with flowers and evergreens and
Silent prayers of a tender Grand mother
Counting her shiny rosemary
Elohe Elohe
Thank you Lord the merciful
For the good fortune and
For the birth of the child and
The promise to save your servant
Elohe Elohe

Time to live again
A life recent, past and distant
Immortalized in my memories
A mother’s love
Uninhibited and selfless love
Undiminished by time
The first to wake up, last to sleep
Her soft melody of praises of saint Marry
Her Prayers to bless her family and
To ease the fever of her ill baby

samedi 13 décembre 2008


This is Christmas to me: Part II by Michael AK 2008

Time to live again
A life recent, past and distant
Immortalized in my memories
A father’s love
Unyielding to hardship
Or to scorn of a neighbor
An eagle by night and
A bee by the day
Watched and guarded and led the family
Always began his day with a great prayer
Dear Lord: What can you not do?
As you can suspend the Earth in heavens
Without visible pillars
Help it move freely through the stars
As you can put the stars in their places
Shine according to your orders
As you can separate day and night
As you have given us two lights
The sun to warm us, and
The moon to guide us by the night
You my Lord
You can bless my children
Make them kind, as you are kind to them
Pained and scarred by life
His face filled with swollen veins and wrinkles
It is a joy to see him, on Christmas day
When his smiles and happiness
Surface on his beautiful face
Time to live again
A life recent, past and distant
Immortalized in my memories
Christmas eve
From horizon to horizon
The hills and the valleys
Filled with the sound of the time
Church bells and
The songs of the season
The faithful patiently waiting
For the arrival of the baby
Young boys singing
Around a huge bonfire
Genna Game the next day
This is Christmas to me
To live and to tell these stories
Resting on time chair
Built from the confluence of
The past and the present
This is my narrative of the future that
You and I are just
A small sheaf of this universe
The meaning of you and I that
We are just reflections,
Of the people who love us

dimanche 23 novembre 2008

My thanksgiving




My Thanksgiving

by Michael-AK 2008

At this time, at this place
I give thanks to the lord
For providing me the strength
To reflect on his great gift
I am thankful for this dirt
Lord, and for the few grains
To sustain me for the day
I am thankful for your generosity

I am thankful for being poor and hungry
I am thankful to see my mother cry
I am thankful for her tearless cry
That she is not denied her humanity
To despair the loss of her children
Like all mothers would

I am thankful for the stabbing pain
Of hunger in my spine
Of the burning tears in my eyes
Of the weak breathe that
God planted in me, with instruction
Live! Live! Live

I am thankful to live
To serve my lord
As an example of despair
So that you, his blessed
Appreciate what you have


I am thankful to live
For the chance given to me
To appreciate the well off
To help me envision
The promise of his kingdom

I am thankful that I will die
Soon to see my lord
I am thankful that
God will release me from bondage
To be born again to live
But this time in heavens


mardi 18 novembre 2008

Temptations and the Romantic: Michael-AK


Temptations and the Romantic
By Michael-AK 2006

I was not born to discover
Instead I live to discover myself
In a mirror right in front of me
In a restaurant
Right in your magnificent eyes,
Sometimes shy of words,
Just looking.
Contemplating and bitter about
The time-space coordinate
That put me in the wrong trajectory
That forced me into you.
Why here and why now?
Floods of questions but no answers.
I wanted your tender hug, and
Hoped for a kiss or two.
But my urge inhibited
By time and space
Pained by heartbreak
What an irony
Right after our good bye
Drove home into the sunset
With a big smile in my face
Lost in a daydream
Thinking about your poems and mine
Just discovered myself
That never in my life
Uttered such expression
Of friendship and love
With such intensity, rigor and fluency
Oh thank god, I am in love
What a feeling,
Filled with happiness
And grace
Eternally grateful to you
For being that mirror
To see myself in your eyes
To discover myself
And to experience this unforgiving love


lundi 17 novembre 2008

Quantum Mechanics



Quantum Mechanics
By Michael-AK 2008


Your major concepts,
Impressive and Illusive
Your descriptions of this vast Universe
Expression of the knots that tie it together,
You are an excellent storyteller

What will you say next?
The chance of existence ?
Answer me!
Quantum mechanics
Do I exist because I am?
Or Am I because I exist?
Which comes first?
Have I called myself into existence?

Looking for a single unifying equation
With lots of parameters of life in it
May I initiate your soul?
To tell me more stories,
To fill my bare soul with wisdom
To care for fellow human being
To appreciate what I am given,
To realize my power
To make a better world for others

Believe me,
As far as I am concerned
You are like
The sound of a trembling drum calling to gather,
The sound of honey bees working hard,
A singing bird floating free in the air
Tell me more stories
You neat expression of nature !