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Kenenna Okafor Poem
Once I saw a pretty bird
Singing sweetly songs I heard
Pleasant-looking in a tree
My heart it filled with so much glee.
All around fine flowers grew
Bright beneath the sky so blue
There was beauty in the eye
I didn’t wish to say goodbye.
The sun in gold was going home
Grand like Caesar in old Rome
Whilst around they all played
Perky children God had made.
Far from nature it’s quite sad
Give me nature— and I’m glad.
Copyright © Kenenna Okafor | Year Posted 2012
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Kenenna Okafor Poem
Once I saw a pretty bird
Singing sweetly songs I heard
Pleasant-looking in a tree
My heart it filled with so much glee.
All around fine flowers grew
Bright beneath the sky so blue
There was beauty in the eye
I didn’t wish to say goodbye.
The sun in gold was going home
Grand like Caesar in old Rome
Whilst around they all played
Perky children God had made.
Far from nature it’s quite sad
Give me nature— and I’m glad.
Copyright © Kenenna Okafor | Year Posted 2012
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Kenenna Okafor Poem
Home is far, so far away
Dear country calls
Distant bases will be brimming
with men who rise, who march
who run, who fall for country
Blood is the price for peace
Peace is like the rain,
coming and going, and going and coming
When country calls, Son must part then
Goodbyes said, tears shed, and Son must part then
Her sunlight will be dimming, her laughter ending
like a song, like a dream
When country calls
Men will be bleeding on every front,
on every field where children once played,
Where life like flowers once thrived
Because country called
He left, he saw, he returns
Statue-still in a coffin wrapped in flag
Country and glory have become one
But a woman's heart is drowning in grief
Son, Son, O! Son
She sees only the coming coffin wrapped in flag
Copyright © Kenenna Okafor | Year Posted 2011
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Kenenna Okafor Poem
Death that took Jude had no ears
Had no eyes, had no heart
Could not hear a mother’s cry
Could not see a sister’s tears
Could not feel a father’s pain
Death that took Jude had no heart,
Was so cold, was so cruel
Came around took Jude away
Mum in anguish prayed for Jude
Sister cried and held his hand
Jude was twelve, his heart was strong
He had a brain ten times his age
Jude smiled here and helped out there
His ways did earn him all our loves
So earth herself a-weeping went
When O some man in silly haste
Crushed his bones O tore his skin
And there the road was red with blood
Now Jude is gone, sweet Jude is gone
Gone with his smiles that lit our hearts
Jude is gone, sweet Jude is gone
Sweet Jude we loved, sweet Jude is gone!
Copyright © Kenenna Okafor | Year Posted 2011
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Kenenna Okafor Poem
Death that took Jude had no ears
Had no eyes, had no heart
Could not hear a mother’s cry
Could not see a sister’s tears
Could not feel a father’s pain
Death that took Jude had no heart,
Was so cold, was so cruel
Came around took Jude away
Mum in anguish prayed for Jude
Sister cried and held his hand
Jude was twelve, his heart was strong
He had a brain ten times his age
Jude smiled here and helped out there
His ways did earn him all our loves
So earth herself a-weeping went
When O some man in silly haste
Crushed his bones O tore his skin
And there the road was red with blood
Now Jude is gone, sweet Jude is gone
Gone with his smiles that lit our hearts
Jude is gone, sweet Jude is gone
Sweet Jude we loved, sweet Jude is gone!
Copyright © Kenenna Okafor | Year Posted 2011
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