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  May 2023     1 year ago

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SCORCH EARTH

SCORCH EARTH
Umbrella of boughs hid me
Cushioning torrential liquid ether From the heavens; contrition for our depravity?
Who knows!
Earth grumbles over our ungodly Mix of dew and mist deprived As the sky drowns with gulped liquid gases Of...

by Aju Okopi Ameh

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Heavenly tears

HEAVENLY TEARS
Heavenly tears showers the earth
Gratis annual offering from high

 Festooned in crown of peace and love,
Awash in fresh refreshing of
Normal natural occurrence
Restoring beauty of created beauty.
Rains have come
Blossoming...

by Aju Okopi Ameh

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Time

TIME
Times are passing
Ferrying along my fellow travellers,
Speeding like the South-East
Trade wind.

My hope fails me
Livid with the desire
To plunge into this wave of time
Desiring, with my aching sinews
To out-wit them
To...

by Aju Okopi Ameh

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Man Under the weather


MAN UNDER THE WEATHER

Face contorted
Like iron screws
Piercing concrete wall
The past an illusory glamour,
A lagoon of miseries
Whirling images of infirmity
Insensitive to the compelling agony
Of the soul.

Sick in mind,
...

by Aju Okopi Ameh

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Senator

SENATOR
Our senator is a man of many few words
His words foam like fresh palm wine.
Like the oblotutwu, the lazy bird of few many songs,
And the ichahoho masquerade of many few dance steps
With pretentious many steps
Suspending the admiring...

by Aju Okopi Ameh

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Repeated use of words for effect and emphasis is called ________.
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