TUTANKHAMUN
...Tutankhamun, a small bird of prey
This pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
Akhenaten’ son and his sister “the Young Lady”.
Alas! Alas! Alas! Ay that was the name of his vizier
His minister or favourite
H...
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Categories:
anopheles, allegory,
Form: Free verse
An Anopheles Mosquito Gets Away with Murder
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I felt nothing
though I noticed
blood
a faint trickle
from my pinky
down the side
of my hand
along with
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Categories:
anopheles, death, insect, pain, red,
Form: Imagism
Can We Imagine
...Do we understand
Can we begin to imagine
What it's like
to live over there
Where drinking water and toilet water
come from the same source
Where trips into town
are by donkey or horse
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Categories:
anopheles, pollution, poverty, world,
Form: Rhyme
Tell Covid 19 That Am Black
...It’s voice causes the shiver
its name causes the stagger
tremours boiling
fettle downpouring
Heartbeats panicking
families isolating
Like a turret, it oozes
like a trumpet, it blows
emanat...
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Categories:
anopheles, death, emotions, eulogy,
Form: Light Verse
The Rose of Youthful Writing
...there is stain
stainless stain
none sees
stigma bin niche
in the heart of my rose
the youthful rose
road to road
lane by lane
the fragrance
comes with virginity
of wile
will-o-the-wis...
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Categories:
anopheles, life, writing,
Form: Free verse
Engulfed By By a Tsunami
...“Buzz buzz”, the anopheles shrilled the night
As with hunger on grasses, they slumbered without light
Babies, held against skeleton milkless breasts
And gnashing teeth, the men in dispiritedness b...
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Categories:
anopheles, bereavement, betrayal, death, holocaust,
Form: Narrative
Unwanted Guest
...Suck blood like a vampire from a strange empire ,
Not invited but invite herself,
Pass through tiny holes and mesh of the net to
Set her proboscis on the skin…
Night crawler and unwanted flying ...
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Categories:
anopheles, animal, nature,
Form: Free verse
No Africa, No France
...A swarm of mosquitoes there was
Of different ethnic origin, language and culture.
Aedes, anopheles, culex and others
Some fragile, some agile and some avaricious,
The anopheles was the most fra...
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Categories:
anopheles, africa, satire,
Form: Blank verse
Address To Miss Mosquito
...Address to miss mosquito(A free verse pun)
Miss mosquito why?why do all these?
your species-Anopheles breed freely,
And ours are hindered with impunity,
You multiply and feed on our haemoglobin,
Whi...
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Categories:
anopheles, health,
Form: Free verse
I Slept With a Female Mosquito - Part V
...I Slept with a Female Mosquito – part V
Anopheles! I, take my sanity, gaze at her.
Evil alter ego and Calvary spar; right in my heart
Crash her, splash her
Red birthright on the white.
Ye...
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Categories:
anopheles, political
Form: Narrative
I Slept With a Female Mosquito - Part Iii
...I Slept with a Female Mosquito
(part III)
Honorable Adjudicators.
How did she enter? Anopheles!
Oblivious, she trailed me?
To my chamber, stalker – to my bed, bawdy
Sneaked in my quilt
Skirt...
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Categories:
anopheles, political
Form: Narrative
I Slept With a Female Mosquito - Part Ii
...I Slept with a Female Mosquito
(part II)
Thoughtless, it perched
The hollow leech, insolent bloodsucker
Sardonic radiation of the red mine; mine!
Psychedelic distress; wily mistress
She, nu...
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Categories:
anopheles, political
Form: Narrative
I Slept With a Female Mosquito - Part I
...I Slept with a Female Mosquito..... By Peter Onyancha
(part I)
I Slept with a Female Mosquito.
Waking up, Good morning, but goodness!
Stupid lewd fly; family of the blood sucker
Fretful, I st...
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Categories:
anopheles, political
Form: Narrative
Mosquitoes and Ants
...An amber light from a flower lamp,
Shrouds the room,
With a missing a petal,
The 75 watts bulb pierces it like a stigma,
There's an old mattress lying on the floor,
The brown cold floor with th...
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Categories:
anopheles, sisterme, old, me, old,
Form: Prose Poetry