Write for a greater prize
26 June 2015
PHILIP KAUPA
An entry in the Crocodile Prize
Kina Securities Award for Poetry
Just write
for there's a prize
Greater than you can bear
bigger for all to share
Because you live only once
and words live more than twice
You learn when you compete
but, that doesn't make you complete
Dig deep into yourself
check the shelves of your mind
Put on your thinking cap
and open your vocabulary tap
Just write
for there's a prize
That money can't buy
and literature can't deny
That words can linger
though they start small at a finger
They can go to the ends of the earth
far beyond your place of birth
Far into a distant time
still maintaining their prime
You may be history
but your words tell your story
That's why we should write
for infinity will be our prize
Philip, the values in your words are for each reader to reap and each library to keep.
Posted by: Lindsay F Bond | 28 June 2015 at 07:43 AM
Angra...this is a great poem. Infact a very thick book condensed in those few lines. Every line carries volumes. Thank you dumniwo...wakai we.
Posted by: Arnold Mundua | 27 June 2015 at 08:28 AM
Bolkin I love your book "The Flight of Galkope"... If I was asked to describe your book in two words I would say, "Rare & Original". Keep it coming!
Posted by: Philip G Kaupa | 26 June 2015 at 05:52 PM
Kaupa, a very nice poem. It gives me a purpose to write. Wakai wo!
Posted by: Kela Kapkora Sil Bolkin | 26 June 2015 at 02:09 PM
Thanks my friends. I just can't express more my emotion about the many writers who inspired me...this piece is for them.
Posted by: Philip G Kaupa | 26 June 2015 at 01:15 PM
Fantastic piece! Phillip Kaupa - this will be my new writing mantra. Definitely adding it to the list of poems for my children to recite:) Thankyou.
Posted by: Rashmii Amoah | 26 June 2015 at 08:45 AM
Phillip - I was challenged by the family at the village to immortalsze them. How? I quote your second stanza:
'Because you live only once and words live more than twice'.
They want the names that I use in my books to be nobody but them, even if I characterise them in person and they say because they live once.
'They can go to the ends of the earth far beyond your place of birth. Far into a distant time still maintaining their prime' (9 and 10th stanza). Well done.
Posted by: Baka Bina | 26 June 2015 at 08:18 AM
A beautiful piece so encouraging and motivating. Angra Philip Wakai kaima weh!
Posted by: Jimmy Awagl | 26 June 2015 at 05:55 AM