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the lay of the land E

...The Lay of the Land
If my thoughts had wings
Or better still, had arrows and a bow
To pierce your heart
You will open your emerald eyes
As only seen in the sea of Greenland
Seek my embrace
We ...

In Search of the Lost Tongue

...They journeyed back to the past
Digging deep into archives vast
Day and night they laboured on
Unearthing bones from ancient tombs
In search of the lost tongue

The mother tongue of Urhobos
Th...

Used Politicians For Sale

...They have used us enough
We’re so done with their stuff
We will trade them for dust
Some old snails, or just rust
We’ll exchange them for rocks
They ship well in a box
And to save on some freig...

Agony of a Country

...Here we are trapped and bound
By evil forces difficult to fathom 
Here we are naturally endowed 
With all of God’s blessings 
While 133 million of our children 
Wail nightly on empty bowels
Con...

Painful Longing

...Perris, take my forlorn and lonely heart.
Though far apart.
Thank the dead words that reach you with a bruise.
That remarks of a loving man here in the vale! 
Could blue flies traverse hills and ...

Maybe One Day Soon

...i will see you, my love
soon
i will see you in a windless country, in a thoughtless world,
with swords, we”ll cut off all roads in the air, from the earth
with our eyes, we”ll dress them up  in f...

All of a Sudden Everything Is Much Easier

...it's as light as snow, the steep hill
when the sun rises must not move a finger,
obedient child, the earth wears its white feathery garment,
putrefied by the wet tears,  no need to raise  up my  e...

When I Die

...When the sun has set for me and the stars should have blinked no more,
When the time for me to go and see my friends on the other shore,
When the breath that I have loved for seventeen years have c...

Marooned On An Island of Nihilism

...After a lifetime
(pronounced like millennium),
where tenacity futilely braced
psyche deeply purpled,
hellishly, and lethally
traced resulting scars -
jackknifed, emasculated
cruelly chaste

...

The Ardingly Jackdaws

...THE ARDINGLY JACKDAWS
The jackdaws know from prudent aviation
As they scan the land for real estate that's prime
In touch with best of value in location
The venerable old schools pass test of tim...

After the Revolution

...We shall meet again, my friend
in Johannesburg, my friend
After the revolution

Ha! Ha! Ha!
We shall dine on gold plates
And wine on rich red blood

We shall roam the open veldt
from Pieters...

Tsunami

...Teardrops had fallen 
and wrung my heart dry 
too weak to cry
sweat had trickled down
to feet and palms
hiding in my bulging 
eyes. 
I had searched 
for three days
trembling at a doorknob 
...

How Jan and Lin Slayed the Dragon

...Two ladies named Jan and named Lin
professed a forgivable sin
they cornered a dragon
wrung her in a flagon
and gave her away as cheap gin

The old dragon's name was Jooling
who had a h...

They Were Dying, Part 3 of 7

...(By the time of the shooting of
"The Misfits", the Miller-Monroe
marriage was in deep trouble.
The Pansy is Montgomery Clift,
The Tusker is John Huston.)

After the Fall

It started as a ment...

Does the Angel In the Whirlwind Still Direct the Storm

...“ Does the Angel in the Whirlwind still Direct the Storm ? ”


As blood in rivers of crude black burned
the prophets mourned
and woe upon the angel dancing in the storm
to the reign of hail
an...

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