Tag: <span>ode</span>

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KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON (by Haruna O Abdullahi)

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 29, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1481" align="aligncenter" width="238"] Kukogho Iruesiri Samson[/caption] Samson Kukogho, your pen tears me like a dagger, And your verses cascade before me like a waterfall. Your rhymes put me in...

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UKAMAKA (for Olisakwe Ukamaka Evelyn on her birthday)

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 24, 2012July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_1389" align="aligncenter" width="270"] Ukamaka[/caption] Ukamaka, We whisper your name and wonder If it's meaning Would justify this rumbling thunder? You are the slender sugarcane Swaying with grace In the...

POETRY

NAKED WOMAN, BLACK WOMAN (a chant by Madu Chisom Kingdavid)

Words Rhymes & RhythmOctober 10, 2012July 22, 2017

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="353"] Naked Woman, Black Woman[/caption] Naked Woman, Black Woman Charcoal-colored mid-wife of the newborn sun; Symphonic spumes of Cuanza rippling on the eyeballs of crocodiles And the adder of...

Tag: ode

KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON (by Haruna O Abdullahi)

UKAMAKA (for Olisakwe Ukamaka Evelyn on her birthday)

NAKED WOMAN, BLACK WOMAN (a chant by Madu Chisom Kingdavid)

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