Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu Poems

Autumn was next witnessed
Through the eyes of a coquettish October,
The somnolent month that spreads fast its
Mat of diffused pleasure.
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I should have grinned when morning came
Atop posts of gaping day, with lunatics
Humming dirges of a broken world.
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Hail the energy of Rain!
O'Rain,
How mightily have you mated
Soil to bear this green carpet
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When the sinciput of the clouds cracks
for the first time,
accompanied by the lifting of the brows
of the sky,
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Desert shrines were canonical
before the Deluge.
The bamboo and fronds of their mouths
waved well in the sun,
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Dark frame of mind ensconces frontiers
with a blanched dapple of strife.
Hell is let loose on Desert,
bewildered by new griefs of a listless heaven.
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Alien interpreters with long, grey beards
predicted the astonishments of the heavens.
Swallows migrate southward
to the trial precincts of committed
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Noctilucent creeping ones garrison
The winding paths on the eve of hanging day.
So are the nubiferous skies, yielding fluidlights,
Anti-Satanic and humorous
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Burning fresco of a new-image rainbow
has glint and farewell lines for
departing birds...
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The image of silence
is a broken heart.
Melodies of silence, mournful,
are not consoled even by energies
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