Kilimanjaro Rises

Kilimanjaro Rises

Kilimanjaro rises to meet the moon

as elephants roam the Serengeti below.

It was here I last saw your smile

so many winters ago.

I saw ages travel,

snow melting in miles

feeding fertile valleys

with wild, white Marigolds.

Sister elephants

told stories of the lion’s hunt

and carried you on their backs

into African dreams

and starlit serenades.

Back when “the People”

began their long journey into

human nature consciousness.

~~~

Kilimanjaro rises,

its long shadow casts us in pain

and drought and night;

easy prey for oppressions might.

But within the very journey

we began lies the means

for our freedom;

to be cleansed by African rain

and the salvation of our humanity.

Sister elephants will tell our story,

carry us on their backs and 

into world wide dreams.

~~~

Kilimanjaro rises to meet the moon.

It’s snow nourishes the Serengeti below and

it will be here that I see 

your smile once again

as it is reflected in moonlit.

~~redzone 6.7/15 

  

Author's Note

....thanks for reading. i want to ride sister elephants into a world with no oppression..

Reviews

[highonwords]

to commune with nature and the depths of humanity's awareness of its strengths and frailties - its stewardship towards the land - and to see that smile again :)

best,
steph

[zephyr]

The snows of Kilimanjaro is one of my favourite Hemingway short stories. You captured its essence and something a little extra. wonderful.

[Lydia Shutter]

The mountains reach for the moon and elephants tell the stories....great personification. There is a hint of romance in this one. "It was here I last saw your smile so many winters ago." Hmmm....is it Mother Nature who smiled or a lover? Not sure...and I like the uncertainty of that. Man's inhumane treatment of not only the elephants, but of the land itself has gone on for more years than either of us have been alive. Hopefully our environment will become more important to people in this generation. You always carry the banner against oppression.....and you do it so"nicely"! :) Lydi**

[Sami Khalil]

"freedom;
to be cleansed by African rain
and the salvation of our humanity.
Sister elephants will tell our story,
carry us on their backs and
into world wide dreams.
~~~
Kilimanjaro rises to meet the moon."

a wonderful write along with the journey into the human conscience to save humanity and its dreams. So glad to see you back in full force of message...:)....................

[jacob erin-cilberto]

they will carry us into dreams....i felt a bit of Toto here mixed with Hemmingway's "hills like white elephants"
there was a time when people journeyed into consciousness...but wow---why are more not doing that now.

love this piece, Curt...

Oppression has to give in to love and peace and sharing...

j.