Simon Thiepdit
My name is Simon Thiepdit, 23 years of age. I am a South Sudanese National, Author, and a medical student at the University of Juba.
I currently published my poetry anthology entitled, “Echoes Of Love.” In the book, I express Love, heartbreak, and nature. Below are a few of the poems in the book.
FLOWER
She is a flower
A lady full of power.
She is neither a rose
Nor a lily flower
But an cactus_
One so real.
She is a flower
A lady full of power.
She endures the drought
The obstacles of love at its oracle
She is a lioness_
A wonder Woman.
She is a flower
A lady full of power.
She stands storms
She endures and bears the cure of love
She neither withers or shrinks like roses_
For she is a real flower.
WAU
Wau is a beautiful world laid on walls
Walls winning balls to call on wells
To quench thirsty hearts of the Nation
As an enterprise of promotion.
Wau goes viral like a virgin to a king
She is decorated like a peacock singing
“Wau nar, Wau noor, Wau mabinum”
For she is the Nation’s lotion.
Everyone believes lives abate peacefully
Tribes adore each other mightily
Like the rocks that clocks and socks
Its fast growing markets built on blocks.
Wau is a land of beauty pageants.
Blessed and pleasant for peasants
It’s a land of romantic dinosaurs
Singing ding dong bell of the poets.
BROKEN PROMISES
I promised to love you until I die
But you dyed your heart on the pockets of old men
So I died and you died
Love was broken, promises broken.
I promised you would be the back cover of my best novel
And a noble prize of my heart
But you surprised me with all lots of lies
Love was broken, promises broken.
You promised to be my mother
One I would bother when the weather is blur
But you introduced me as your brother to your Sugar Daddy
Love was broken, promises broken.
When life was fat like your face
You promised to go thick and thin with me
But when Satan tossed the dice a little
Love was broken, promises broken.
Go quench your thirst on the weak but rich
Go be famous perchance a slayer
But have no thought of looking back to me
Because love is broken, promises broken.
ECHOES OF LOVE (1)
I have loved like a king chasing the wind
I chose the fine and the kind
But a marathon for women never end
Each day, thousands ripen
And a man on a pen for poetry never lacks
What to keep his soul on laughs.
There was a time I broke hearts
Other times I wasn’t smart
Love was just lust in my mind
Like chasing after the wind
A broken wing engulfing an angel,
I was a thirsty type of an Archangel.
I chose the decent and the warriors
But the warriors were more of survivors
And decent more of wives
One I kept slicing with knives
Life was so good in the woods
And kisses so cheap like chirping of birds.
KING OF WAU
A slim dinosaur
with golden wings
Is King of Wau.
He is as brave as his tongue
He fought Arabs and found everlasting peace
He never runs but ruins enemies of peace.
The god of rain heals his pain
As he showers the garden’s grain
Into the huge granaries in Wau.
He is a king so keen when he sings
The buzzing and chirping of the rain forest
Hosting the gods of his ancestors.