Ol Donyo Keri 'striped mountain' (concrete)

Mt.
Kenya
Rising up,
High above the
National Park land.
Temperatures plummet
Around the summits, gifting
Each morning a white covered sight
to tribesmen hundreds of miles around.
Villagers at its foot build their homes there
with the main door facing her, in worship to;
Mwene Nyaga (God).The mountain's main purpose,
A worthy, most resplendent throne to survey Kenya.
The Maassai love her, Ol Donyo Keri, (striped mountain)
They pray: 'God bless our children, let them be like the olive tree
of Morintat, let them grow and expand, to be like Ngong Hills,
like Mount Kenya, like Mount Kilimanjaro and increase in number.'
Honest reverence from humble people who work the land and are thankful.
Knowledge that the melt feeds the rivers, which feeds the cattle and then feeds the tribes
of the mother land. Hear their bare folk dancing feet on rich soil, grateful to their rock

michael
2016

*Authors note - this poem is a formed piece, line 1 x one syllable rising one x syllable each line through to line 20. The format becomes squiffy on the last few lines due to the sites restriction on poem line length. I am sure you can imagine the mountain though without the rocky base.