BLANK SKY
~ Chovwe Adede
40 BLANK SKIES (Sestets by Nigerian Poets)
only conscious eyes can probe the skies only spheres with balls dare it's vastness a breathing body urges its eyes they look up in total blindness dead heart, blank eyeballs wiping...
HEARTS’ RHETORICAL CRY
See! How she has become a tyre that lost its core; the rim Surviving has become her extant synonym She live for the day Working incessantly, never relay She said...
IT’S LIFE
good debt funny death hated priest adored beast it's life... evil brother kind stranger braying monkey swinging donkey it's life... jogging toddler blind footballer ignorant teacher thieving preacher it's life...
BEST MUM
If i can have another chance to, this world, come once again In your arms, i want to find myself under your tender loving care again If i can have...
ENQUIRE
Surely! I know that mistakes will persist If you refuse to accept the correction as corrected Else wallow in darkness and shallow in demotion Surely, I know that mistakes will...
REGROW
Yesterday's seed Today's green Tomorrow's wilt --- I. I grew While in dust As underground Seed II. I grew While on soil As above ground Plant III. I grew While...
IMMORTALITY
Caught under the darkening sky The unfathomable heavy down poor As thunder roars Yet another innocent blood The weeping earth This flood of tears Will it ever cease? Mortals go...