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<h5 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>VINTAGE COLORED DREAMS</strong></h5>



<pre class="wp-block-verse">Present in Sunshine's dust of yellow,
the darkness came upon me
like I was it's cremated Juliet
magically reawakened.
Down the wormhole I fell
and came vis-à-vis with the grey skinned man,
who took me promenading
in his achromatic universe.
Mirky skies.
Men genuflecting before arrows.
Stories of prolonged battles and lost lives,
displayed in Scandinavian shades.
Children camouflaged beneath muddy Meadows.
Death and people meandering through grass.
I tried to flee this tumult
but my feet were apathetic

<em>~Spray bottles of sublimation~</em>
My fingers caught a drop of tear,
that froze into dry ice.
I discovered I'd been whisked
into the frost of reality.</pre>



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<h5 class="wp-block-heading">THE TWINS</h5>



<pre class="wp-block-verse"><em>(A collab between Success and Failure)</em>

O thou presumptuous fellow
How I do abhor the sound of the cello
For me thinks of thee
An unskilled Artie

Seasons come and go
There's time for every halo
As you bask in your glorify
So will I!

Huh! I bring beams of sunshine
Stitching gusto unto human spines
But everyone despises you
You've been dubbed 'heart-wrenching taboo'

Taboo? Who are you to lecture me?
All you make them do is scream like a banshee
But I thrust them into cavities of growth
A trifecta of discovery, strategy and positive oath

Would I ever understand your role?
In this field of life, prosperity is the goal
I am all that
While you, are a combat!

The dark is needed for light to become a treasure
Success is non-existent without failure
I've sacrificed my light for yours
 And the contrast I bring, illuminates you
The Universe is a scale of balance</pre>



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<h5 class="wp-block-heading">THE AIR BEING</h5>



<pre class="wp-block-verse">Carbon dioxide - <em>fertilization</em>
 Argon - <em>cryoablation
</em> Nitrogen - <em>explosion
</em> Oxygen - <em>respiration
</em> Water vapour - <em>condensation
</em>
<em>I can now see
 the potpourri of gaseous dishes in aviation.
</em>
Thou unseeable and ubiquitous king,
You hide not your emotions.
In melodramatic terpischores,
hail thy presence.


Swoosh swish whoosh whizz howl 
Thou dost dance in eolian rhythm,
against fixed obstacles.
Humming 'outta my way'
In thundery dialect.


O when thou art delighted,
Swayeth in classicals.
Hips of trees in blissful caress
as they rock along,
exhaling their pleasure on my skin.

Please don't rile up.
Thy tornado-ed ballet and hurricaned salsa,
are unpleasant entertainments.
Throwing elements in between funnel shaped thunderstorms,
makes a horrendous sandwich.

<em>But our faults do not devaluate us
'cause what would I have done without you?</em></pre>



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<h5 class="wp-block-heading">YET I REMAIN HUMAN</h5>



<pre class="wp-block-verse">I am human
Filled with emptiness sometimes
other times, I cannot tell
I am gorged...asphyxiating,
with these beings of apprehension
lurking around my chest…
Palpitations and insurrections...
Uncertainties waging war for reasons unknown to me.
But why do I have to suffer the brunt of this brawl?
I wish to be liberated,
to spill this glass of anxiety 
in words and tears.
I do that subtly though,
but you don't see the bleeding clues 
I litter around in broken fragments.
You do not understand.
Even now, I doubt you comprehend all I've said...
Are there really stalking eyes behind
ready to devour?
'cause they are drilling holes in me - 
and filling them up with molten obsidian.
Whether love nor hate, I feel neither
I only experience angst.
In need of familiar warmth
and arms that feed hope,
I wear a mask with dimples that twinkle
and remain, as they say, an optimistic human</pre>



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<p class="has-text-align-right has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#ade6fe">Igbokwe Amarachi is a Nigerian creative writer and medical student at Imo State University. Amarachi loves writing and her themes include love, heartbreak, euphoria, societal happenings and dark fiction. Amarachi has works published or forthcoming in several reputable magazines. She is @Amara Igbokwe on Facebook, @_amyhilary on Twitter, and @_amyhilary on Instagram.</p>
 
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‘VINTAGE COLORED DREAMS’, ‘THE TWINS’, ‘THE AIR BEING’ & ‘YET I REMAIN HUMAN’ ’ (four poems by Igbokwe Amarachi)
