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The Contest

The grey curtain reveals
Svelte giggle from clean teeth
Mother stands  to the reveal
To be or not to be
Contours and lines mar mother's 
makeup
It is time to ring the ring
Tables set to throat wetting meals
Underneath two feet dart about
Easily uneased

I look up; calculating the atmosphere 
The moon's beauty calls yet
Two eyes are calm but fierce
Like the lioness to her prey
Another with the fired feet are 
Flamed with uncertainty like the 
Fluctuation of a currency
To be or not to be?
This coven echos 
I sense the bubble of confusion
Then Dress it with light talk
Till the air lifts slowly

Four eyes earlier locked
Grow warm again.

Copyright © Amen Egbe | Year Posted 2024



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DONGOYARO!

The iroko may be 
The tallest in the forest
But I know the secrets
Of men better than him

The woman with the 
Secret child whose 
Husband must not know
Sits and cries at my
Trunk willing my 
Roots to keep her throes
'I must keep my crown' she says
So down in the waters of my heart
Is the secret piece of peace of her heart.

Copyright © Amen Egbe | Year Posted 2024


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