Cladestine
THE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.
Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left to sip these carcinogenic dusts, sapling
And entwined between vague horror.
A river source, from Stone Age
Which flows across diverse tributaries
Serving the peasants on their farmland is poisoned.
Four volumes of epithet, like Magna Carta
Have they dispatched across the ocean
To the Emperor, who drinks refined water.
On deaf ears fell those laments
Empty promises stacked upon ridges
Brazened with irksome polices.
There lies a mother and her apple
Confined to a red, long stretcher
Spitting out venomous blood, gushing.
The bourgeoisie of this death chimney
Had threatened to lay low
The figurine of an opposition.
What colour of sky remains left?
For the helpless peasants on their land
When their green plants have all wiltered.
THE EMISSIONS
They have sailed to their rivers mouth
To collect the last drop of moving waters.
With their jar tugged upon their heads
Supported by strong, thick wraps.
Drop after drop, one after the other
Their jars are filled to brim, unfettered.
Those once clear waters are heaped
With Marie Curie debris of emissions.
The smell of it chokes between nostrils
Sinews and veins.
But Curie linings are white
A discovery to save mankind.
Their only hope, Lazarus last crumbs
Or they dehydrate in scorching sun.
With seedlings on their tired backs
They climbed mountain tops, heaving.
Hoping someday, the sun will shine
Shine upon their red pale faces.
BREXITISM
The common faith of man is hanging
On tilted ropes.
Tickling by the dunces of hour
Mingling among ashes, sour.
These hopeless ropes are robed
With helpless, seamless rods.
Encasted by some supercilious heavy weights
Who felt Europe is sucking their heights.
That blonde ruffle neck optimist
Waggling his neck like a bell fry
Consider less the thoughts of many Lazaruses
Taxed by heavy fines.
With allies, close fiendish weeds
Growing defiantly among the scripts.
The grappling end of their tail
Will be met with rebuked tale Brexitism.
CONSTITUTION
Where are the grey hound hair
That scribbled the commandments of men.
Whose noses bridge across four forlorn
Constituting nuisance.
They scribbled them in their inner rooms
To benefit their heinous acts.
SUICIDE
I've seen him breezed, head buried
Among foggy peats.
With faint smiles captured by heat.
Sauntering round the garden, trembling
As if lost in dark shades, grumbling
For a miracle or two upon, stumbling.
An old folk in his prime reminiscing
How the bitter spill of life
Has forsaken the last hunch of strive.
Gave him an olive, though without a penny
For same fate abound with us
The little drops of worsened misery.
The head has ignored the feet
Wandering in this lines of heat
Striated with stripes and beat.
That same morning, chirps of birds
Heard the sad news on tabloids
The wanderer is tilted to fan blades; suicide.
Tear drops, drop tears filled my sockets
Like pool of river washing the shore
What a life, a mysterious end.
TWISTED
Twisted fate fade my faceless face
With feign, faded, fameless flakes
Fecunded by second thoughts
Of shapeless happenstance, rots.
To mark the memory of thick bark lace.
The elergies between the gongs and flutes
Resonates across the sole tide water pace
Riveting through streamlined edges
Bordering macadam of streams
Across the shoulders of whims.
Death, the patches of fallen decayed leaves
Injected with toxic venoms flux of auxins
Sombre my mind with undaunted memories
Of calumnies, whims and caprices
Which our hands refute to breach.
Saw cold ices of blood between their eyes
In a moonlight stance
Dredged at sight, middle of rivalry
Feeding on bread crumbs, gun shots
Hoping to sail home unbridled.
Copyright © Joseph Ikhenoba | Year Posted 2020
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