Goodness Tchibueze Poems

What gives breath to this hide,
Reeling off cadences woven in beauty?
Beauty that tickles dancing-tide,
Dancing-tide that sprays a fragrance dusty
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The sun unsettles the water,
Taking her hot soul
To the calm-adjuring court of heaven,
Where she is appeased with some easement thereat.
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He is the Unknown
From which the known sprang forth.
He is the Unseen
From which the seen broke forth.
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It was a shipboard birth, as she sailed westward
On the grey sea, backing the wind.
At the nineth moon of her sail
Came her uneasement:
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When others were hammering through her,
He chose to brush his way through
Without raising dust motes in the air;
Yet his efforts revolved within whirling shadows.
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Fire can not pass through water
To consume the frogs:
While i was just a frog
Innocent, leaping my happy way;
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Have you not been a regular victim
Of a touch-and-die affair,
Which laps and droops
With every little touch of hurt,
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Lo, it is almost here at last!
Earth's bowel has burst,
Her muds heave apart.
Not science, not art
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Wake up thou that slumbereth,
Rise up from thy sleep.
Blessed is he that answereth,
His soul shalt ne'er weep.
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