Life Or Poetry
...I was never born a poet
But a pauper standing on a pulpit
Penning words in spring tide dings
Ritzy scribbling like trundling rings
Talons of my feet
Seething grounds I scratch and leet
Feathe...
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Categories:
penner, life, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
Poetry Soup
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Poetry Soup
Presence of a plethora of patron poetesses and poets, Welcome!
Openhanded optimism is offered.
Exciting endeavors ...
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Categories:
penner, identity,
Form: Name
What a World, For Chinua Achebe
...What a World!
By Izunna Okafor
Tears roll down my cheeks
Beholding the palm tree I tapped
From his knowledge of blue ink
With a bow, lofting off a huge gap
What a World !
Our intell...
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Categories:
penner, death,
Form: Elegy
Roasted Faraway, For Pius Adesanmi
...By Izunna Okafor
Beyond the shrubs of Sahara
Lifted a munt of brainy bond
Over the Mississippi of Ethiopia
Lofted a penner with his hunky thoughts
Across the bridge of a foreign land
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Categories:
penner, africa, death, life, tribute,
Form: Elegy