Occident Poems

Blame

...A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until 
                           he begins to blame somebody else—John Burroughs


Blame

Underneath a belt of stars in stratosphere’...

The final frontier post consciousness

...The final frontier – post consciousness

as imagined by cogent, fervent, intelligent,
lucent, occident, reticent, and uneminent 
nonestablishmentarian.

The following disquisition initially des...

Africa The Beautiful

...Africa my Africa; of resources rich.
Aggressively wooed because her potentials enrich.
Africa the bride, historically bid for.
The continent dark with opulent fields to explore.
Your labour past ...

The Moral Mortgage of Mice and Men

...The moral mortgage of mice and men 

Yours truly quite astute,
especially regarding cute
little field mice, also known 
as meadow voles,
which imprecation one doth emote,
when aforementioned a...

The Nigerian Politician

...Bloated belly, swollen cheeks,
and a sunken stiff neck on robust torso.
Yet well fitted in flowing apparels;
falling and being raised frequently
from side to side.
Obscene opulence is your delig...

Herald In a New Dawn

...He gasped for breath under the brutal feet.... George Floyd, the black man at Minneapolis, a hapless victim of color prejudice. One more in the list... maligned for centuries, casting dark shadows in...

Worm

...In dark rock-cleft with guano splats,
There dangle many thousand bats.
A lowly worm evolves therein
And in bat flesh begins thriving.

Now man arrives for bats to eat,
For hungry poor, some tas...

Love Has a Southern Flavor

...Love has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...

Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangle...

Masks of the Season

...She took a photo of flowers
She did not see the demon hiding there.

He read the letters in the spaces between the words, 
Said it "Cald," or "Child?"

He sees the spaces between the objects
T...

A Brief Journey Through Black History

...Once I was scourged by the task masters' horse whips;
consigning me for two centuries to servitude.
I had my roots forever erased by forced trips
to worlds unknown, where contemptuous attitude
to...

Dawn

...O'er the dying night hangs a ghostly silence
Punctuat'd by the nocturnal chirping of the crickets
And the ghostly melody of the wind
Moving thro' the trees

From slumber's comfort
Has Aurora be...

Real Legal V Real Redemption

...re-jargon re-emancipation re-align re-alteration, by design despair intended, no fear with the

truth deflected, relagate remove re-tie, retrained in rejection to observe a "new" (religion) 

the tem...

The Call of Darfur

...The blood flews in Darfur and in all parts of Sudan. What can a social activist
could do to the genocide cruelty affter the Jewish holocaust in Europe in the forties?
Features of grief impregnated ...

Thirteen Takes

...When caught mid-flight
End to bloat against gravity
Thanks, rejection is not of the earth

My eyes are welling
I won’t hold back with shame 
Even warriors often times loosen, weeping

A good ...

Ix: the Vendor's Plea

...Darest V.C. –
Did not we notice their appearance?
Did not we hear the elders speak?

Darest V.C. –
We saw their assorted trumpets
With assorted chameleon voices they came;

Some: mere relics ...

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