A great land,
Bountiful as trove full of treasure
Before the marching line
Of star-shouldered wolves
Marshaled in and took command
As termites build tunnels
To support wood
For over a score and five
Before handing the coat of arms
To... – by Nwafor Oji Awala | 1 View added 3 months ago
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We
Emerge
Through
The innards
Of drenched
Scarlet, with
A piercing cry
Of an afflicted
Crow, away
From clan,
Rising slowly,
A flaming ember,
Over the fingers
Of trees
We grow,
We plough
And web next
To kill and take
... – by Nwafor Oji Awala | 6 Views added 3 months ago
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Vibrations burst in my muscles
Like warring armies of
Water and wave that
Surge to electrify a city--
I want to leap on the red hill
At the village arena
Like a mighty leopard
And pounce on a willing opponent,
Throw him in the dust
To... – by Nwafor Oji Awala | 2 Views added 3 months ago
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Change vomited dark entrails
Of the bald vulture on my clan;
We were buried,
One after the other,
In the belly of the village stream,
And pulled out
Almost immediately
To choruses that had no place
When waist dance shared peace
From... – by Nwafor Oji Awala | 7 Views added 3 months ago
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I have fallen for you
On this cheerless path
To our last bell
Aged and aged
We brace ourselves
Slowed by memories
And the prospects
Of barren tomorrow
On same stream
Seagulls swim
Singing familiar songs
Of when love was fire
... – by Nwafor Oji Awala | 6 Views added 3 months ago
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I am the ghost of your journey,
Failures of your past,
I am a shadow of you,
Made of cockroaches of the night ,
I am a video on silence,
Of the uglies in your closet.
Can one run away from his bowels?
Today was the tomorrow that has... – by Nwafor Oji Awala | 8 Views added 3 months ago
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When I first stared at you
Your eyes were hard as oyster shells
I peered beyond the craggy cast
Of the stony swell
And saw the door
Into the milk of moonlight
The veiled pearls are now bare
Warm spray behind craggy wave
And now I... – by Nwafor Oji Awala | 7 Views added 3 months ago
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I sprang from
Massless whirl
Of a dream,
Amassed form,
A tiny body beyond
Naked eyes,
Saviour of ova
From another
Periodic waste
I am the goat
Who gored agape
The unmentioned
Entrails of a leopard
I'm the conqueror
But a reality... – by Nwafor Oji Awala | 16 Views added 3 months ago
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It's gilded in bright colours
Like a peacock butterfly;
It sparkles in splendour
Like a diamond in the sun;
When it rests, it rests
In confined dank darkness,
In a bowel of nightmare
With what remains of a king:
a diet for... – by Nwafor Oji Awala | 9 Views added 3 months ago
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A cursory stroke in the shrub
Sets the gathering busy;
While rodents begin their chase,
The donkey jeers above a whisper:
"No one is afraid of any cat!"
Sound of a thick snap in the overgrowth
Invites the moon to stare
At a deserting arena,... – by Nwafor Oji Awala | 7 Views added 3 months ago
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We go and come
We come again and go again
...a ring
Like water that ascends
...to return as rain
...to smoke up again...
A circle
An order
My ancestors are back
Staring into my soul
Through the eyeballs
Of my children
... – by Nwafor Oji Awala | 1 View added 3 months ago
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Eleme is my name
It was not always the same
As ugly beasts reared heads
And evil spread
In the hearts of settlers
And other dwellers
When men searched for places
To dominate and base
Riding on roaring waves,
Sheltering in spiting caves
... – by Nwafor Oji Awala | 32 Views added 3 months ago
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Crushed, the sickening sound
Like squashed melon on hard ground
Under an elephant’s foot, halted traffic;
Heads turned to the ghastly graphics:
Eruption of volcanoes of brain
Matter, blood gushed from
Human skulls under a train’s
Wheels. Two... – by Nwafor Oji Awala | 22 Views added 3 months ago
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I threw leaves into the river:
Big leaves, small leaves, spliced leaves;
Some stepped off in style,
In confidence and majesty,
Like a convocation above a storm;
Some charged away unevenly
Like dance of a pack of hyena
In survival... – by Nwafor Oji Awala | 4 Views added 3 months ago
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