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Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa

Word’s Weaver for J. E

June 5, 2008

by Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa
a) Word’s Weaver
for J. E
These words are glassed
in moon –
relics of this generation,
to be preserved.
No more roses.
These suffice a thousand bouquets.
Why won’t I, these words in my palm,
walk with blossom head
and a smile?

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Sun

April 30, 2008

by Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa
On this stable earth, afresh every morning,
You peeked at our fore-fathers trekking
Side by side on the barbed seal of being.
You saw Noah’s Flood, the wars of the world;
Saw blood flowed to a flood; man scorched to desert mould;
Earth parted, sea bellowed and roared
Eating up life; thunder applauded fierce wind turns
In crowded places; and [...]

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Vice

April 27, 2008

by Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa
Like life
Vice begets vice.
Watch with prudency
You do not get it.
It could just be the penicillin
From the pharmacist.

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Variant

April 27, 2008

by Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa
Hope
Hope is a caged bird
that sings –
but goes and never comes
when it is freed.
And so too is
                    sorrow.

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