Humanity Suicide
...Death
kills not despair
emotion found in Hell
nor does it kill wrath
against life imperfect
kills driver's chance
instead
to turn wheel
to gratitude gear
before bodyless
descent
down
s...
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Categories:
teethless, death,
Form: Free verse
Lifeless
...Not really fit for you.
Probably slipped under God’s nose and dropped here.
I bet He wonders “who’s this” when I pray.
I’m surely not on any “living human list”
My life’s smashing all over,
Is...
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Categories:
teethless, anger, anxiety, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse
May We Always Remember
...For Mac Henry Imafidon
Foxes have no cave to lay
but here I spread like a clay
I have very few to love
beside the springs of Dove
May we always remember
we may not be among the members
May w...
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Categories:
teethless, africa, art, best friend,
Form: Ode
I Want To Go To Church
...I want to go to church to know
Why pastors doesn't preach repentence any more but
A sagging prosperity and miracle they preach .
I want to go to church to learn
How to prophecise so that I ...
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Categories:
teethless, art,
Form: Blank verse
The Traditional Story
...In my little village, Nkporo,
We celebrate the Iza Afa Festival
And the Most Magnificent Igboto Nma Festival.
The two are more than four hundred years old,
Our forebears told us that it began wit...
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Categories:
teethless, africa, art,
Form: Narrative
He Knocked Me Off My Feet
...Today i knocked off early
What a day it was
Impatience is riding my soul
Like a hungry horse in the field
Anxious to reach the bus stop
I waited for my bus ride
Singing and counting the minut...
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Categories:
teethless, funny,
Form: ABC
A Change
...Was this the face upon which,
Beautified innocence danced and danced?
How looks gazed, riveted untiringly!
The black lashes cast glimmering shadows,
In the dark deep blue glassy eyes;
As ...
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Categories:
teethless, depression, mystery, nostalgia, philosophy,
Form: Verse