Climbing the Mountain

The poem consists of short lines which addresses the problems and temptations which we students undergo. This when we are climbing the mountain of academic work.

Climbing the Mountain

Mount Kenya University; our school

Has really scaled the heights

Climbed the mountains of education

In and outside the country.

However, we as students have to sweat it out

To climb personal mountains of education.

That’s why am not happy

From Monday to Friday

My precious time and fare

Gets wasted

So that I can attend lectures. 

 

Here I am

A digitalized engineering student

Who has designed a robot

For taking me up  there above the clouds

To punish they who brought

All this book-struggling to us.

The robot is climbing up

The steep steps of the atmosphere.

In heaven I am now

Holding a cane.

I dispenses three hot strokes of the cane

On Eve’s buttocks

Then advances towards her husband.

But Michael the Arch-angel

Kicks me back to my seat

At Uniafric house

Where am listening to a lecturer

Who is possibly lecturing for eternity

He does not seem to understand

That my dry throat needs some unlocking

That my lover

Is waiting for me.

 

Have a look at Nairobi city!

Lit like a bush

Full of countless glow worms.

Look at the beautiful

Gleaming lights of Tribeka club!

At the cheap hotels

Located at Odeon Cinema

Am forced to take lunch

Of chips which cost thirty bob

They say it’s usually prepared

Using some poisonous electricity transformer oil.

 

My pockets are

really too small

for the likes of Java.

But my fellow mountain climbers

Let’s fold the sleeves of our shirts

To hold onto the mountain’s

tricky walls for guidance

To climb all the way to the top.

And of course

We will have plenty to enjoy

In the snow capped peak of the mountain

Armed with huge jackets

For preventing the destructive advances

Of the then present world.

 ©2013 Vetelo Ngila

 

Reviews

[ANTO]

Student life is the same everywhere then I take it Petah. Three weeks of hedonism followed by ten of more of pauperism.
I liked this poem and the layout suggested the different times of daily student life. I especially liked this;
"....listening to a lecturer
Who is possibly lecturing for eternity.." lol
A witty poem as well as a time-capsule of a poem Petah
Write on !!

[gabrielle]

most could relate to this as we all became student. this piece just encapsulated some of the greatest sentiments of a student presented in a funny way (unlike some boring lectures at school). i enjoyed reading this =)

[Ranjita Ghosh Dasgupta]

it was fun reading this poem peter..so many fun elements present..

[petah]

@Ranjita. am humbled by your kind remarks.it must be funny due to the involvement and characterisation of students. hehehe

[Ranjita Ghosh Dasgupta]

yeah..could relate to the boredom felt during class lectures :P

[Betty]

Wow Petha, great display of heart felt emotions..... Guess life on campus is taking its toll on you ha?
Enjoyed the read very much, keep penning my dear friend.
Betty