The Iroko has fallen!
The rot has begun.
As the scavengers
Lay in wait
For what is left
Of a once great tree!
The Iroko goes home!
Today
Things have fallen apart
Cos they were hit
By an arrow of god
Then things are
No longer at ease
Because a man of the people
Goes home!
The Iroko goes home!
A great man rots
As the lowly man.
But not the rot matters
But the memories!
The Iroko goes home!
Categories:
iroko, bereavement,
Form: Blank verse
ample logs
deck the fallen Iroko Trees--
Monkeys chatter
Categories:
iroko, loss
Form: Haiku
to the great iroko's clan
the aging iroko has fallen
the great tree
whose shades housed my birds
whose trunk house the beasts
she has fallen -
the iroko of the clan
the clan of the ancients
the ancients of the forests
the forests of my roots
the roots of my blood
the blood -
o, the iroko has fallen
and the great eagle on the iroko
has gone, gone! foeever, gone?
Categories:
iroko, depression,
Form: I do not know?
THOU IROKO
The famous king of the forest
The mother figure of the green groove
As the lion lords over
All other animals in the forest
So Iroko towers with undeniably,
Caring and encompassing hands
Of its dominion over tree
Oh! King of the forest
Hold forth your comforting hands
To thy teeming millions of the
Under- growths which hitherto had
Been mercilessly beaten by the sun
Hail Iroko! Shout!!
Thou old, young, men, and women
Shout and praise
The king and master of the
Forest to rise for a dance for the
Rhythm and drum beats
Sound so tenacious
Dance, dance, dance
Oh great king of the forest
Categories:
iroko, nature
Form: Verse