FWGE Day 20: Our Names by Uche Amaobi
Like the gazelle of the south, you are benignant. Sonnets, in standard lines, would tell tales of your beingness.You are the melody from the strings…
Like the gazelle of the south, you are benignant. Sonnets, in standard lines, would tell tales of your beingness.You are the melody from the strings…
Being Black At 20 What goes on in your mind when your father’s wife tickles a piece of your silence? You are just a boy…
Akanni mi, Those mornings while alone, I craved an imaginary lover. So many paintings that loved me When no one else did. I would mock…
Let the blissful rain fall on usAnd the seven thunder echoes for our union,I have visited your mystery landAnd was drown inside your labyrinth,Where two…
Give me a piano, and my fingers will find musicbut when absence lives in my wallswhat music will my mouth produce? It was the day…
Last Day Fire falls Thronging amongst the leaves Leaving us fear The day the heavens Will be shattered And claim everything on Earth Fire walks…
Before The Chiming My brain slipped on bananaSkin of ratiocination – if deathCan twist light into turgid murk. I have just learned to bulge in…
Reincarnation If I’m to come here a second time I shall stay off the blacks boundary Where truth in glare in a twist turns lime…
Mama, Worry No More Flashback To the days hunger became our tailor Dressing us in the best attire Dreaming and dinning with us Up to…
Last time, it was a farewell message Followed in a suit of cleansed hearts Flapping wings around the moon It has gone; now it is…