Bonding - A Poem by Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
- By Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
- Published September 19, 2009
- Poetry
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Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
Isidore Emeka Uzoatu majored in the history of African Christianity at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Converted to creative writing by his elder brother, he abandoned his doctorate for stints on the staff of Crown Prince, Nigeria's pioneer male magazine, and Mister, its follow-up, in Lagos. He edited the latter before retiring to full time writing and a daytime job managing a trading company in Onitsha. Vision Impossible, his first novel, took twenty years to complete. He is married with children.
Bonding...
II
(To Ibadan)
Dugbe the market
Articulate your quantitatives
Clark’s five-line poem
Chart your perspectives
The Wild West syndrome
Colour your invectives
A garrison-style democracy
Resonate your pejoratives
Stadia Liberty and Adamasingba
Resound your expletives
The cocoa house
Denote your prerogatives
A chain of ring roads
Accentuate your decoratives
Town-centre gridlocks
Underscore your derivatives
The wetie inferno
Streamline your purgatives
A foremost citadel of learning
Underscore your qualitatives
Its teaching hospital
Apprising your curatives
An unmarked grave
Apotheosize your imperatives
A recidivist pilgrimage
Behold your putatives…
- by Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
II
(To Ibadan)
Dugbe the market
Articulate your quantitatives
Clark’s five-line poem
Chart your perspectives
The Wild West syndrome
Colour your invectives
A garrison-style democracy
Resonate your pejoratives
Stadia Liberty and Adamasingba
Resound your expletives
The cocoa house
Denote your prerogatives
A chain of ring roads
Accentuate your decoratives
Town-centre gridlocks
Underscore your derivatives
The wetie inferno
Streamline your purgatives
A foremost citadel of learning
Underscore your qualitatives
Its teaching hospital
Apprising your curatives
An unmarked grave
Apotheosize your imperatives
A recidivist pilgrimage
Behold your putatives…
- by Isidore Emeka Uzoatu