Shairi la Ben Mkapa akiwa Makerere University!!

[Kigarama]

Unaweza kuyatambua mawazo ya ndani ya fikra za mtu kwa kusoma maandiko yake. Kwa wale wanaompinga Mkapa au kumuunga mkono wanatakiwa kusoma shairi hili wakati huo Mkapa akiwa ni mwanafunzi katika Chuo Kikuu cha Makere nchi Uganda.


FACING A VOLCANO
By Ben Mkapa

Like an angry lion of the tropical jungle
The lava shoots up,
A red arrow piercing a canopy of clouds,
It threatens the endless stretch of sky.
A circling garb of hot air,
A circling garb of humans.

A red cross on a green jeep,
A red cross on a wood shack,
A red cross on a white breast.
They standby, grim, unshaken,
To guard this circling garb of humans.

They are all here,
Men, women; young and old,
Mystified, terrified.
They gape it in, their cameras click;
Later, removed in space and time,
They will vent an endless chime:
“Is it not wonderful?”
A boy and a girl, but a few hours met,
Their backs to the volcano, they face camera;
He wants a souvenir.
“Is it not wonderful?”
A beautiful girl, and behind – a beautiful monster.

A big truck unloads its cargo,
Majestic, springy, the cargo swells the circling garb of humans.
These are guards, of men against other men.
The army, of course! They too missed the red lion.
No, no, this is no enemy; juts a “glorious sight”
And the red tongue lashes out.
But it won’t lick the sky;
It won’t lick these men – there are other tongue


What thoughts do they all have? What feelings?
As the eruption’s bowel of lost time hurls
The granitic deluge of suppressed earth which
Apace invades forlorn man and crop, and
Imposes a reign of barrenness;
What thoughts do they all have? What stir them?
Fear, awe,
Man helpless in contest with nature.
He cannot harness this; he cannot explore it.


What a fire! It surpasses hell.
But the clergyman is not here;
He has known a hell fire; he doesn’t have to see it.
It is better imaged in the cloister, in the pulpit
Better described.
Nothing real, this heat, and dust, and fire.
It makes no souls repent.

They work at calculations,
Scientists and seismographs.
It defies them all, this tongue of fire, this fierce fiasco of rock and
Dust;
It defies time, this fiery testimony of nature.
Ruthless, devastating, defiant,
An angry arrow of fire.

Jamaa alikuwa analizungumzia vuguvugu la waafrika kudai uhuru au Volkano ya kiukweli? Kuchagua kwake Volkano kuelezea hisia zake kumesawiri aina ya utawala aliokuwa nao kwa miaka kumi aliyokuwa Rais wa Tanzania?

 

[Waberoya]

''Jamaa alikuwa analizungumzia vuguvugu la waafrika kudai uhuru au Volkano ya kiukweli? Kuchagua kwake Volkano kuelezea hisia zake kumesawiri aina ya utawala aliokuwa nao kwa miaka kumi aliyokuwa Rais wa Tanzania? ''

FAFANUA MKUU

 

[DSN]

Amezungumzia nature spirtual na yalikuwa mashairi mazuri sana kwa wa kati huo akitafuta thamani ya maisha ni nini?na kwa kujua hilo la moyoni mwake ailia ikampa nafasi kuitumikia.Ila kwangu mimi alikosea kumalizia ubeti huo wa mwisho kwa sentensi hizo tatu , hakika hakuwa na jibu la kujibu asilia aliyokuwa anaiangaikia kuijua,na pindi alipokuwa na uwezo wa kujibu majibu ya asilia aliyokuwa anajiuliza, kwa kuangaika huko nature aliyotafuta ikampa favour kuitumikia lakini hatimae HAKUITENDEA HAKI, Na ndio maana aliishi na statement ya AN ANGRY ARROW OF FIRE

Ubeti huu ndio umeeleza Maisha yake yote katika kuangaikia Ukweli halisi wa Maisha nini wakati anautafuta.Binadamu wanasema maneno yanaumba,na hivi kwa ubeti huo wa mwisho ndivyo alivyoumba utawala wake na hatima yake.Kwa wale wenye kujua asili [nature] inafanyaje kazi hiki si kitu cha ajabu kwa kuwa what goes around comes around.
"defies time, this fiery testimony of nature.
Ruthless, devastating, defiant,
An angry arrow of fire."

1: defies time, this fiery testimony of nature.Hapa kaitafuta nature na uhalisia wake na ushahidi


2: Ruthless, devastating, defiant,
3: An angry arrow of fire.

Hatima ya kuangaika kuitumikia Nature kwa ukweli halisi aliishia kuwa

Ruthless=you say that someone is ruthless, you mean that you disapprove of them because they are very harsh or cruel, and will do anything that is necessary to achieve what they want.

Devastating=If you describe something as devastating, you are emphasizing that it is very harmful or damaging.

Defiant=If you say that someone is defiant, you mean they show aggression or independence by refusing to obey someone.

What you wish for is what you get.

 

[Kigarama]

FAFANUA MKUU

Mimi hoja yangu ni kwamba sote tunafahamu kwamba ushairi unatumia lugha ya uficho. Nataka kwa pamoja kwa wale walio weledi (Professionals) kwenye mambo ya ushairi watusaidie kufunua yaliyo kwenye ushairi huu na kama ubabe wa Mkapa unatokana na falsafa yake kuhusu maisha aliyoijenga tangu akiwa chuoni Makerere.

 

[Mlaleo]

Chukizo la Watanzania

 

[mwaJ]

Mie na mashairi mbalimbali ngoja tuwaachie wajuzi watuchambulie.

 

[Ndahani]

Haahaa! Ben Mkapa, mwanafunzi mzuri wa JK Nyerere!

 

[simplemind]

Wouldnt be a lot easier to ask Ben? Then we'd no longer be in doubt about its meaning.

 

[Kigarama]

A big truck unloads its cargo,
Majestic, springy, the cargo swells the circling garb of humans.
These are guards, of men against other men.
The army, of course! They too missed the red lion.
No, no, this is no enemy; juts a "glorious sight"
And the red tongue lashes out.
But it won't lick the sky;
It won't lick these men – there are other tongue.

Kwenye Green na red unaikumbuka Net Group Solution ilivyoingizwa ofisini kwa mtutu wa bunduki?

 

[simplemind]

On second thought we d rather not,politicians have a way of saying and unsaying things.