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Poem: GbenedambieBaen [Tribute to Baen Community] By Komene Famaa

GbenedambieBaen [Tribute to Baen Community]

(By Komene Famaa)

GbenedambieBaen I called

Founder of modern Baen

Built in five strong forests

Protected and guided by good spirits

A city modeled like every new and modern city

In the whole wide world

Your citizens were gifted farmers, fishing people,

And great hunters, artisans and travelers

Baen, with modern court systems, schools, restaurants and hotels

I imagine you with lines of catering Rest houses, work ministries

Modern supermarkets, schools, banks, financial houses, and churches

Long tarred black road

Disappearing into our skylines

Like perspective in an excellent landscape painting

That link one to the outside world

I am from your roots and your

Royal linage equipped to guide, protect, rule and defend our ecology

We are determined to protect, direct and develop

Citizens of your new, viable and enviable city

Full of bountiful yams, coco yams and cassava

During the rainy season we welcome the singing of the frogs

In a chorus at zorlaghanwi, zortoro, kiabara

As a traditional medicine man

You travailed endless miles of pristine forests

Looking for herbs and other barks and roots before you ended up here

To cure the ailments

That were rampant at the time of old in Baen and beyond

Many citizens of this new town were cured

And even beyond

To far away Opuoko in Nyokhana

Across the River Luubara

That borders Baen to the north.

Where you put your initial habitat

And continue your work of curing and administering our own people

With your famous herbs, barks and roots

Which eliminated all diseases that were prevalent in our land

This make you famous and earns you the ‘Gbene’ title

As one of the most famous medicine men

At your pristine period.

 

 

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