oluchukwu ifechukwu Poems

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1.
In Memoriam Chinua Achebe

How again else
do
our eyes these
dauntless drops drum of sorrow
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2.
Memory Of A Car Crash

I have wept now these whole thirty long years
Dating from this very first day of your ever living death
Yours and our dearly beloved son’s
Hoping desperately that it was something really:
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3.
Ash Wednesday 2014

Ash is solemn sobriety
and
a birthlong cultivated contrition
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4.
Ash Wednesday

Only Joshua's
incorporeal bowels
can
consume
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5.
In Memoriam Anayo Ogujawa

Joshua says to be still
and know that he is god
only there's no knowing
as always with him
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6.
A Woman

A woman's bosom's precipitous softness
you are inveigled into
is a suspect phenomenon
you do not know
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7.
A Tender Attempt

Perhaps art
is only a tender attempt
in a moment of visceral audacity -
no more than a prenatally lame child's leaping
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8.
Psychiarty

You will sit often with terminal tenderness
By the bed burdened
With your enfeebled father's ebbing mind and
Ponder the deranged debris: the ponderous
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9.
Chinomnso

And now that the left hand
So virtuously and sublimely
Knows not what the right is doing
Has hell then been kept at bay?
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10.
Valentine's Day

And so you foundered
your way back towards
the anguished crossroads
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