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<h5 class="wp-block-heading">RHYTHM</h5>



<pre class="wp-block-verse">Taking a loop glance 
Amidst futile family;
Impulse a child to dance
On the wing of sorrows – so unlikely. 

He leaped into the lines
But rooking brothers gnaws his eyes
To lick the bitter limes
Of realistic home &; not falsifies;

Father is a valley of tales &; durst of words
Impregnating mother from the sip of syllables. 
Sisters, swim in the ocean of rapist like toads
And brothers are gelignite, placed on the table
Astonishing both lads &; adults, unstable. 

Behind drum of screams 
There're children rhyming on its realms. 
They sip wine of play &; dance then 
But they're now lost, drooped &; mourned
Like broken ocean, yet overflood 
With the heartaches bearing them unload.</pre>



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<h5 class="wp-block-heading">BLIND SIGHT</h5>



<pre class="wp-block-verse"><em>(In the dark night, I seek for a star)</em>

The sun bubbles within the hat
Of blurry sky... 
There the night cast
Its nest on the gloomy tiles. 

The earth died in lust
Mountains &; hills are ripples break into pairs
&; there appears the crimson nightmare 
With its beak sprouting men at lost

I tinted my tongue with light expression 
&; pour image of the star
With all fury perception 
Now I am here in the ring of lust to seek with mouth ajar.</pre>



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<h5 class="wp-block-heading">MISCONCEPTION</h5>



<pre class="wp-block-verse">I wonder if father's hat &; cap
Haven't carved him asleep. 
He ringed souls at loss of peace, 
Children amidst ocean of tears &; drum of screams, 
&; cupped men's deer unmotioned, 
Bottling sister's hairs in an empty bowl of rariya*

A startled child at split of hunger 
Learned life is as beautiful as laburnum. 
He legged on for mother's help
Whose liefs mouthed emergency. 
Now he eyed her;
Placed at the torment of bonfired dragon. 

Another child renders grandmas' poem
An imagination, whose stanzas are dyke of tales, 
Now it has swallowed him a line. 

Oh; where else could a child seek meal
If not from dilapidated mouths 
Filled with momma's stenched kisses? 
Oh; where else could a child find rest
If not to relied on nightmare's tummy? 
Since brothers has gone to worship death
Aggravated with malignant confusion 
On what to account the ancestors.
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<h5 class="wp-block-heading">WINGS OF DEATH</h5>



<pre class="wp-block-verse">The hyenas had carried tooth 
&; placed it to a bonfired pestilence. 
Whose broken bones collide with politics 
&; formed a Pseudonym dragon. 
Her name mouthed its founders firstly 
&; flows into the womb of innocent hyenas, 
Assassinating lives &; economic. 
In this poetry
She knows power is her title 
Whose noxious words are convulsions. 
Her face held a distance 
Deeply into lioned chalet 
&; here; the hamlet of black tigers. 
Now she kicks her spreadness &; sprayed 
Round the globe through soil &; oceans. 
Then she left her tail for domesticated hyenas 
&; loop for a visit. 
As she leaped her leg unto
The jangle of dispirited lions;
Her dancing wings found a dwelling 
And friended millions of victims as neighbors. 
Now the quorum queued in the hampered shrine
Before God of our dissimilar faith
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<h5 class="wp-block-heading">WAS SHE CREATED TO BE SO?</h5>



<pre class="wp-block-verse"><em>(The Girl Child)</em>

The silence wears silencer 
In mouth words lie tabula rasa
And heart was closed, unwashed
And the motive crashes 
Then the golden dreams corroded at hearts. 

On tray pestilence resides
Suffocating her soul
In exchange of knowledge with illiteracy 
Inspires by the devils set as guide
Claiming to be parent but pirate 
Of her dreams. 

Yet, our frontiers 
Speak no action 
In succor to her corrosive scene.

I dreamt when I laid down in search 
Of solution 
At the night of my sister's memories. 

On the dream where I oversee
Hands of man
Raises to clutches the curb
Of the devils parenting seeds. 

For her motivated chance 
To dances 
In the pedagogic voyage. 

And the potential they ride wasn't cuddles 
Until the inherit epidemic has crumpled.</pre>



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<p class="has-text-align-right has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#f1f1f8">Abubakar Auwal is a bilingual teen poet, playwright, essayist, movie actor, graphics designer, storyteller and also a spoken word artist born in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. He is a member of The Poetic Collective (TPC VIII), a library caretaker at Hill-Top Creative Art Foundation and a founding member of The Young Nigerlite Spoken Word Artist (TYNSWA_1_). Abubakar’s works have been published or are forthcoming in Teen Lit Journal, Synchronized Chaos magazine, Hello Poetry, LILAC Journal, Poetry.com, Words Rhymes &; Rhythm, Art news.com.ng, Al-fijir MSSN magazine, New Voices Magazine, California Poppy Times, IJAEM journal, Flower Song press, Boundless 2023: the anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival and elsewhere.</p>
 
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‘RHYTHM’ / ‘BLIND SIGHT’/ ‘MISCONCEPTION’, ‘WINGS OF DEATH’ / WAS SHE CREATED TO BE SO?’ | five poems by Abubakar Auwal)
