ROMANTICISM: 'DAUGHTER OF RAMOGI' BY CLIFF THE POET.

Should you see my Akelo

Daughter of the rising moon

Beaming from got Ramogi

Like the aurora sun rising

At the beginning of a new year

Driblet from Aoko's torrent river

The precious pearl of my life

Sprouting shoot of Nyika Ramogi

Whose bud has tasted no blade

Should you meet my Rabora

Tell her to seal and guard our pot

I will drink from it when time is ripe

Should you set eyes on Nyako maber

Well dressed in the heart of my soul

With fine and dark skin like espresso

Whose splendid figure resembles a wasp

Her neck slender like a bottle of whiskey

Who makes men turn heads to watch her gait

As she saunters down the isle of Alego like udo

Look no more, that's my aswito Akelo

If you ever talk to my Akelo

Look straight into her shady brown eyes

She lives in the surface of the ice in their iris

Tell her I miss the smoky smell of her clothes

I yearn for her talk flavoured with epigram

If she asks why I haven't come to see her parents

Remind her that I am the living legend

The great jaleny of Gusii Highlands

Progeny of Sakawa, the great seer

From the line of Otenyo Nyamaterere

Who single handedly killed Nyarigoti

I will pay her dowry without dickering.....

POET THE MIRROR 

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The poet personae praises a woman with so much of romantic lines and vouches that he is the only one able to pay all that it takes to marry her.