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These Awful Feasts of Vultures

The rooster calls us To the recurrent feasts of vultures ‘The Spirits amongst you, have prepared a table before us,’ The vultures vaunt vociferously ‘What Spirits…?’ ‘The Spirits that outsmarts your soldiers Which your Justicia herself cannot sentence’ ‘Come quickly,’ they told themselves ‘To the butchers’ table of Plateau Their losses are our own gains. It’s no business of ours If they fail to leak the linchpins behind the lynches And unmask their monstrous marionettes and masquerades That now make us stable staple meals’ II How long would we give free reins to these awful feasts? And watch the cruel carnage of our kith and kin? Hide, when henchmen hang our households Who knows whose name is in the noose already? When shall we seize these scarpering Spirits? Before they host the vultures to another banquet

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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Date: 11/17/2015 10:14:00 PM
Olugbenga :) Congratulations on having your poem featured on the soups Home Page. ~SKAT LOVE~
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Date: 10/26/2015 8:13:00 PM
Olugbenga, WELCOME to poetry soup. I hope you have fun with this wonderful community. You'll find many friendly poets who are ready to support and give positive feedback. I will enjoy following you and your poetry :) We are Lucky To Have you. Enjoy Poetry Soup:) Your New Poet Friend @-> LINDA <-@
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Olugbenga Hodonu
Date: 10/27/2015 4:41:00 PM
Thanks...Nice meeting you...i will definitely read up your poems
Date: 10/26/2015 4:09:00 PM
Olugbenga Hodonu,, Welcome to Poetry Soup. It will be a delight to read and become familiar with your poems in the future. As for now, I will greet you with the same smile others passed when I first joined the soup. Wishing you and your poetry the best. I hope you get to meet all the nice poets around here STARTING with me- SKAT :-) Please drop a hello and tell me a little about yourself if you wish. I would like to be your newest poetry soup "FRIEND" Hugs* SKAT
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Olugbenga Hodonu
Date: 10/27/2015 4:40:00 PM
Thanks Skat A...I am a lover of literary works and poetry. I am from Nigeria and I am into legal practice. Nice meeting you

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