CHARITOO DUNAMS

ONCE UPON A
POET
RYTHMS AND RHYMES FROM THE SOUL

Contents
Poems of Christianity ...................................................................................................................... 2
A Messiah of Lost Souls ............................................................................................................... 2
Love Poems ..................................................................................................................................... 4
Cupid Goes Missing ...................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
I Wish I Had Fallen For You.......................................................................................................... 4
Let It Rain Rainbows .................................................................................................................... 4
Take Them As They Are ............................................................................................................... 4
When Cupid Goes Missing .......................................................................................................... 5
Why Is She Screaming When I am Silent ..................................................................................... 5
Remind Me of Someone ................................................................................................................. 6
A Human Gem ............................................................................................................................. 6
I Wish Everyday Was My Birthday .............................................................................................. 6
The World is Happy Coz of You ................................................................................................... 7
Observations of a Fool .................................................................................................................... 7
The Funeral.................................................................................................................................. 7
When Words Mean Nothing ....................................................................................................... 8
Poems of Encouragement ............................................................................................................... 8
Ramblings from the Soul ................................................................................................................. 8
I Wish I Were a Fool .................................................................................................................... 8
Just the Way I Feel .......................................................................................................................... 8
Alone in the Crowd ...................................................................................................................... 8
Have You Heard Me .................................................................................................................... 9

Poems of Christianity
A Messiah of Lost Souls
God for His work to be done on earth very well
And to support and hold us up where others fell
Makes provisions for us so we can bear the cross
That proves that He is a loving father and not our boss
But that doesnt make Jesus an economic messiah
He will never leave us nor will he forsake us
This makes it easier for us to bear our cross
He opens the heavens and down comes rain
Blessings, riches and favour to ease our pain
But that doesnt make Jesus an economic messiah
He has filled our hearts with awe and wonder
So that we will always remember and ponder
That you and I were made to praise and worship
In oneness and unity we continue in fellowship
But that doesnt make Jesus an emotional messiah
He comforts us in our sorrows and tears
Hes told many times to forget our fears
And leave our emotional garbage at His feet
Though we shall not be able to perform such a feat
That doesnt make Jesus an emotional messiah
By the stripes of Jesus Christ we are healed

Betrayed, rejected and beaten till His back peeled

He took our infirmities and sins upon Himself
And by His Grace redeemed us for Himself
But that doesnt make Jesus a medical messiah
He is the I am that I am that healeth us
And for that He deserves our ever applause
He is waiting patiently for that very day
When He can give you the body made His way
But that doesnt make Jesus a medical messiah
He is the messiah of lost souls; that he is
Rescuing the perishing and making them His
Go into the world and rescue lost souls
Why we do not obey Im sure everybody knows
We have made Him a messiah of selfish miracles
For this reason He came from heaven to earth
That by His sacrifice He may save us from death
Now we should tell others about His sacrifice
Through our lives, attitudes, goodness and SICE
Let others know the stories of His love are not lies
We fill the ears of God each day with our cries
When we should be telling others of His paid price
Thousands of angels are waiting to shout n joice
If through us a lost soul makes the right choice
But here we are filling their ears with our avarice
What/where todays Christians should to do or go
It is those very things they send prayer to do
Go tell the sinner to repent for Christ is coming
You are in your room kabaying and praying
How will He ever hear of the messiah of lost souls
Let us learn from the likes of Barnabas and Paul
They whose mouths could not be shut at all
The martyrs, the saints, the Christians of old

Who rather than let people die unsaved and cold

Died that others may know of the messiah of lost souls
Oh God our Father have mercy upon us
Please pour out your spirit and empower us
Help us to pick up each day our cross
We need your spirit to make lost souls our cause
Help us to see you as a messiah of lost souls

Love Poems
No More Love
When Cupid's poison wears off
And the sun's heat hides Venus' light
Where shall we be, you and I
Silent, coughs laden with meaning
Looking, staring, seeing and unseeing
Wondering if the end has drawn nigh
Or a the dark hole shall explode in light
When we shall share a smile, a tear or a laugh

I Wish I Had Fallen For You

Blame it on my treacherous heart, not on me

Let It Rain Rainbows

You turn in your sleep, eyelids fluttering, you smile
Dreaming of sweet things, you cuddle closer
Draw closer my beloved, my sweet one
Forget everything else, savour this moment

Take Them As They Are

I am speaking softly, a melody that means nothing
You are happy, my empty nothings means everything
To you. I am not trying to deceive you, it just that

I like the way my words make you smile

Dont put much substance into my words
Just try to enjoy their rhythm and rhyme
You are not fickle, but enjoy their hollowness
Dont take my words apart, let them be in oneness
Dont pack meaning into the hollowness of my words
It is fragile; I dont want you hurt this way or any other
Coz I like the way your face lights up when I play the 1-4-3
And the pearly ring of your laughter; girl you are free
I want forever but not the kind promised by words
Words that expire as soon as they are uttered
I want forever built on trust, patience and
I dont want forever built on fickle words

When Cupid Goes Missing

Would we see magic in the sway of the hips?
Or as a siren's song, the smack of the lips
If Cupid was missing or a human threescore years or more
Would Cleopatra's art be extinct, buried, practised no more?

Why Is She Screaming When I am Silent

Why is she screaming when I am silent?
Why must she be expressive and outspoken?
When all I do is draw ragged breaths
Are we not sharing the same experience?
Sounds of pain expressing feeling of pleasure
How ironic, but thats how it has been through the ages
Kings unmoved by tears and suffering and hardship
Moved when pleasure was expressed in sounds of pain
This whole thing is a cheat, she can scream several times
Depending on how well I play my part and that only
But no matter what how she plays her part
I can only scream once after all the ragged breaths
Game over .

Remind Me of Someone
A Human Gem
A teacher, friend, guardian, an angel and more
All of these yet, description short shall fall
For no one word shall you fully and truly describe
For it shall be nothing but a pitiful bribe
With a heart as nice and wonderful as yours
Many times showed kindness that warmed ours
This month should celebrate people such as you
And thus set an example some may follow too
Its the month of love and the day of love
When love on electronic wings flies like a dove
Thrown carelessly at those in need of it
A tribute I write to the one who it truly shall fit
So to you, one and only, this is a thank you
For today as I think of you
I pray you enjoy your honeymoon
And may the pretty babies come soon

I Wish Everyday Was My Birthday

How I wish everyday was my birthday
You touched my heart with what you do say
With you even the simplest words are engraved in gold
And you lend warmth to even words so cold
I like the sound of your laughter
Each time you laugh you make me feel proper
You give me a golden moment to remember
A minute, a time, something to keep forever
So before I sleep just laugh one time for me
If you were in front of me now you could see
That I want to hear this sound even in my dreams

To chase away the nightmares filled with screams

Thank you for being such a good friend
Thank you for being sincere, no pretend
I want you to make one promise, considering
No matter what, don't stop laughing

The World is Happy Coz of You

God has given you a special talent
To make sadness to joy repent
I say that you are a human gem
Those that think otherwise, listen not to them
You have a smile that says I'm a friend
And with you there's no need to pretend
You take everyone as they are
And make them feel that they're a star
Wondering if you were born in the west of west
Cos I hear from that place comes the best
How do you do the magic you do
I wonder when the jokes are out of the blue

Observations of a Fool
The Funeral
The vultures circled overhead
An early elephant had fallen
They build a dam to hold the floods of
impatience. And as the river
of time flows on, the easier it
will be to pull off the gold.
They depend on moments like these
present-day Charon, duty and gain
mixed and much the more so.
Then they swoop in, Hermes at play
United in purpose, but that which Mammon
has divided no man can put together.

When Words Mean Nothing

Words are vessels through which meaning is carried
Some of us are experts, our words seem full
But they are empty as we their creators
When our lips drip honey just to hide our stings
And the honey no sooner produced
Than it withers up and in that lies our power
Our words are empty so you fill them up for us
Fill them up with dreams of your own
Making it seem as if we were talking
Directly to each man, when all we do is bring
Up emotions, thoughts you thought were dead
While they torment you, you magnify us, mentally

Poems of Encouragement
Destroy the Cage

Lets Make a Mistake

I Wish I Were a Fool

Fultons folly, Newtons silly

Ramblings from the Soul

Just the Way I Feel
Alone in the Crowd
I am in a crowded room
But why do I feel alone
I am in a place of shouts and laughter
But why does it seems to me, a dead zone
On the outside all seems well

But whats on the inside only I can tell

The smiles are copied and pasted
From days when I wasnt feeling this saddest
If people treat you according to how
You tell them to, then I guess
I have been misunderstood, for even now
I am shouting, I love the way words caress
How much does it take to join a conversation?
Thats not the point, but how to stay in it
Coz its better to be quiet, than to talk
And nobody listens, you and your words judged as vermin
I am not asking for pity, Ive had lots of that
I am asking, are you that blind, that fickle
Not to see behind all these nonsense
I am trying to be .. I dont even know

Have You Heard Me

I want to scream, I want to shout
But all that I can utter are whispers
Ghosts of the emotions that inspired them
But whispers are better than keeping silent