Nigerian Libraries of Yesterday
...Repositories of The British-Donated:
Of texts like bombs detonated;
Books from their libraries discharged;
The-Given-Out, not a dime charged …
A Harvest of The Happily Released
Because of The ...
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Categories:
repositories, education, fantasy, people, political,
Form: Rhyme
Monasteries of Old
...Rooms of self-imprisonment
Against Spiritual Impairment;
Castles like centuries-soaked Mountain,
To a type of knowledge The Fountain.
One a bit crazy to look at them long
Or on their account as...
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Categories:
repositories, corruption, evil, integrity, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Everybody Owns An Office
...Everybody owns an office,
Though not already swiveling its chair;
Everybody, custodian of some promise,
To think differently, simply unfair.
The yet-to -be jangling -the keys to -it
Isn't to b...
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Categories:
repositories, blessing, business, career, courage,
Form: Rhyme
A Becoming April
...Mossy thresholds open,
mud slips into small lighthouses
on the shoreline of the season.
Backyard rockpools
become repositories of sunshine.
Roots and puddles
congregate in underground weddi...
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Categories:
repositories, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Didn'T Know
...When men were kings with steeds
women were handmaids to their needs.
repositories for their seed to grow
...I didn't know.
When men worked to make fields righ...
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Categories:
repositories, appreciation, bullying, childhood, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Blue
...Cool, they describe you
Yet your energy is vigorous, enduring
Short, compact waves of intense photon packages
Dancing on the retina in steady, fluid rhythm
A clear language of light, transl...
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Categories:
repositories, analogy, blue, color, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Embezzling Jesus Freaks' Embellishments
...Ashes to transcendence mid infested holy waters
naught bearing ascertained compassionate divinity,
mad puppet masters fleecing wings in lieu of
ceremoniously exorcised influential malign...
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Categories:
repositories, abuse, betrayal, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Amaranthine Beauty
...Matriarch of the Serengeti
With Brontide rumbling she guides the family
puffing dust onto dry cracked skin
Gracefully she carries herself, swaying to the music of dancing plain grasses
petr...
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Categories:
repositories, africa, death, farewell, loss,
Form: Free verse
Rebirth of Adages
...Old adages,
Growing older with ages,
Wrapped inside,
Torn books,
And periodicals,
A dislike grown out of over their use,
And failures after their use,
And their newness in old times,
Had bund...
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Categories:
repositories, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse