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MONUMENT TO FREEDOM (by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize Judge Jeff Unaegbu)

<body><div class&equals;"booster-block booster-read-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"twp-read-time">&NewLine; &Tab;<i class&equals;"booster-icon twp-clock"><&sol;i> <span>Read Time&colon;<&sol;span>3 Minute&comma; 0 Second <&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine; <&sol;div><p><&sol;p><figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;2631" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-2631" style&equals;"width&colon; 380px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;wordsrhymesandrhythm&period;wordpress&period;com&sol;2012&sol;12&sol;21&sol;monument-to-freedom&sol;monument-to-freedom-by-jeff-unaegbu&sol;&num;main" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-2631"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-2631" alt&equals;"Monument To Freedom by Jeff Unaegbu" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;poetry&period;wrr&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;12&sol;monument-to-freedom-by-jeff-unaegbu&period;jpg" width&equals;"380" height&equals;"390" loading&equals;"lazy"><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-2631" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><strong>Monument To Freedom by Jeff Unaegbu<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>How many more Wills will Habit deceive&quest;<br>&NewLine;Fettered and guillotined&comma; souls rest in tears&excl;<br>&NewLine;How endless lost souls dreamily receive<br>&NewLine;Death’s melody&comma; not Admonition’s fears&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For Eve was a beauty— unsoiled&comma; unharmed&comma;<br>&NewLine;Playing in the lawns of peaceful Eden&period;<br>&NewLine;Adam danced with bears— unwary&comma; unarmed&period;<br>&NewLine;What stranger to pain&excl; What icon of men&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And&comma; of course&comma; he came to put joy at stake&comma;<br>&NewLine;Slowly—ah&comma; slowly&semi; mindful of a rhyme&period;<br>&NewLine;Uncoiling he came&comma; advancing&semi; a snake&excl;<br>&NewLine;Such firm furioso to reel off a rhyme&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Blissful Eve was stunned by such swift passion<br>&NewLine;Gliding to her side&comma; enchanting the air&period;<br>&NewLine;Her virtue wound up as curios beckon<br>&NewLine;So vulpine was he&excl; He curtsied with flair&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Come away from that bramble and sample<br>&NewLine;This apple&period; Stop your pitiful ramble&excl;<br>&NewLine;Eat now and grow wise&period; Yes&comma; solve this puzzle<br>&NewLine;Of this tree you think habours death’s mantle&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Death she plucked at once&comma; savouring the juice<br>&NewLine;And as if on cue&comma; deep darkness broke loose&period;<br>&NewLine;To Adam and Eve&comma; the rhyme sold a bruise&comma;<br>&NewLine;And ever since then&comma; it has been Death’s fuse&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You hammer of death&comma; I know you no more&period;<br>&NewLine;Your doom has been penned&comma; your fate decided&excl;<br>&NewLine;The hourglass of charm flows for you no more&period;<br>&NewLine;Judgment has been passed&comma; its seal unguided&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tu-woo&excl; Tu-wii&excl;&excl; Tururu goes my flute&excl;<br>&NewLine;I invoke the wild in you my sweet Will&period;<br>&NewLine;Go on&excl; Thrash him&excl; He came to kill and loot&excl;<br>&NewLine;To crush&excl; To win&excl; To rule – shall be our seal&excl;&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Whatever our lot&comma; our given measure&comma;<br>&NewLine;It’s a true saying&comma; our ears we must lend&comma;<br>&NewLine;Life is a fierce war&comma; a risky venture<br>&NewLine;From its beginning to its very end&period;<br>&NewLine;&lpar;This is an excerpt&period; The poem is 1000 lines altogether&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>BIOGRAPHY<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;jeff&period;unaegbu">Jeff Unaegbu<&sol;a> &lpar;born Elochukwu Jephthah Unaegbu on October 1&comma; 1979&rpar; is a Nigerian writer&comma; actor&comma; artist and documentary film maker&comma; the author of eight books&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Filmography<br>&NewLine;&ast;Saved by Sin&comma; part 2 &lpar;2007&rpar;&lbrack;29&rsqb;<br>&NewLine;&ast;Saved by Sin&comma; part 3 &lpar;2007&rpar;&lbrack;30&rsqb;<br>&NewLine;&ast;Zik of Africa- A Historical Reflection &lpar;2008&sol;2010&rpar;&lbrack;31&rsqb;<br>&NewLine;&ast;Journalism &lpar;Flash Documentary&rpar; &lpar;2010&rpar;&lbrack;32&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Short story collections<br>&NewLine;This Mosquito in Your Net&comma; &lpar;Nsukka&colon; Global Publishers&rpar;&period; &lpar;2010&rpar; ISBN 978-31647-4-0<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nonfiction<br>&NewLine;&ast;Freedom in Our Bones&colon; THE HISTORY OF THE STUDENTS’ UNION GOVERNMENT&comma; UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA&comma; NSUKKA &lpar;1960-2004&rpar;&comma; &lpar;Onitsha&colon; Blue Publishers&comma; 2007&comma; 2008&rpar;&period; &lpar;512 Pages&rpar; ISBN 978-35602-2-0&period;<br>&NewLine;&ast;The Origins of the NYSC&comma; &lpar;Nsukka&colon; Global Publishers&comma; 2009&rpar;&period; &lpar;90 Pages&rpar; ISBN 978-33254-4-2&period;<br>&NewLine;&ast;ALEXANDER O&period;E&period; ANIMALU&colon; A Biography of the Distinguished Professor of Physics &lpar;Co-authored with Dr&period; Akpojotor&comma; G&period;E&period;&rpar; &lpar;Abuja&colon; Ucheakonam Foundation &lpar;Nig&period;&rpar; Ltd&period;&comma; 2008&rpar;&period; &lpar;133 Pages&rpar; ISBN 978-049-891-5&period;<br>&NewLine;&ast;Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama African World Challenge&colon; Arts and Science in the Reconstruction of the Consciousness of Africans in the 21st Century&comma; A Dialogue of Western and African Worldviews&comma; &lpar;Co-authored with Professors Animalu&comma; A&period;O&period;E&period;&semi; Umezinwa&comma; W&period;A&period; and Achufusi&comma; G&period;&rpar; &lpar;Enugu&colon; Snaap Publishers&comma; 2009&rpar;&period; &lpar;102 Pages&rpar; ISBN 978-049-951-2&period;<br>&NewLine;&ast;The Youth and National Development in Nigeria &lpar;Co-edited with Otagburuagu&comma; E&period;J&period; and Ohia&comma; N&period;C&period; &lpar;Nsukka&colon; Global Publishers&sol; Benak Ventures&rpar; &lpar;2010&rpar; ISBN 978-8060-35-8&period;<br>&NewLine;Read full biography&colon; http&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Jeff&lowbar;Unaegbu<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>MESSAGE TO POETS&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Write poetry that could jump up and become music&period; That way&comma; your poem would last a hundred lives and more…&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” is remembered today&comma; after over a hundred years&comma; while theory books written back then have gathered dust in solemn libraries…&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Be real&period; Thanks<&sol;p>&NewLine; &NewLine; <div class&equals;"booster-block booster-author-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"be-author-details layout-square align-left">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"be-author-wrapper">&NewLine; 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