June Anigbogu Creates A Research Paper Poem by LaClaire mitchell nzerem

After dark the mind plays tricks on you
every metaphor invades the practiced and practical.

And in the luminiscent moonlight,
so deliciously brilliant when all the time you have desired
such luxury from life,
which before now, had not been,
no prince no happy chance to truly
call a trophy romance up 'til this time.
See now, of course how,
Stars dance teasingly. Why now is it, they choose to give you, only you,
careful attention. Sure of course when you are busy working with statistics,
formulas and serious theories. Now they come
to charm you like lovers with smooth soft velvet chocolates,
with gentle words of satin gloved
careful creative reverie!
Yes of all times, now, everything is
so especially for you when you don't have the moments or
the hours, as your professors have warned you of the
calculated risks and impending deadlined graduations.

But now is not the time for happen-stance or childhood dances of joy
and ecstatic entertaining, or cartoon freeflying- colorful ballooned/
bungee- jumping imaginations.

A masterful thesis is the substance of which
great men have woven philosophies of deep ponderance and meaningful meditation.
and brought into being the very ivory towered visions
of greek civilization!
Many innovative ideas and hard serious thought,
on which the pillars of law have found living rootball
and thrived even though severed down to the very trunk-muscle.

Heads toppled as new worlds have eradicated old ideas and
formulated new revisions, so as not to reinvent the wheel.

Yes tonight, you must not give in to flight of ideas or
fanciful dreams spirited by arpegios of classical music,
for the deadline draws near,
you must instead draw from all the ideas of the ancients,
and pull from the essence of all your living experiences,
and documented factual references
to focus on the specific task at hand, removing yourself aloofly
from all the spectacular displays of fireworked
distractions and splendid songs of living,
until after the task is done, then
fly free and dance.