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Ikenna Uzomah Poem
file behind she with the the diamond soles,
drown in the rays of a flowing gown:a star leads the
camels down the dunes:tramp, wanderer,serf.
coals that fuel fire:chick and hen,small shrub and big tree,
lost in a gown:nameless,shrunk.
thats when they ask you"why"?or"live this way".
the vines and trendils are climbing,creeping around,
its a stair, ladder around the green stalk.
the queen were's those costomised clothes,gown and crown and
sits on the throne,above,undisputed.
sure many attires we know:flesh,fur,me and you!!!
i remember i was taught to climb through a stair,ladder
but as i look into the sublunary,moon sun star
i still think otherwise.
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all litters as i walk the dunes
and so i cry to sunlight,
the tree hides it in its roots,
to spring up its stem,
the settled sand of the hour glass.
i thought a while about the fish
in the sea,
zig zad,circles,
why do we walk in a file?
if only we could wipe those litters:
arrows that shatter the heart.
i draw a picture
cobs after lion,boys after man,
(the fields still greener ahead)
and i pinpoint a finish,
in the wide gullet of mother earth.
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i saw the footprints on the sands of the oasis,
and the loamy soils around the rose garden,
i also saw prints on the mountains:
the strings that aid the climber, i also saw
them go the other way around;
(evidence of return,decent)
but i still look for the prints on the sky
around the moon,
and so i still stare up,neck bent,
cos she turned a million miles a metre
in the darkness of the woods,dungeon,
hungry heart when she smiled at me.
i saw me decend the valleys(i didnt know)
went anticlockwise(couldn't imagine)
high among the milky she holds my heart.
my feet never touched the ground:
no job,office,domain.
circles:the universe, clock ,and me,
impeccable gyration,for the arrow i fired
keeps decending,and so she still takes
me along(no direction)just the way it was
when i first saw her.
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