Beside the Lagoon - Poems by Amatoritsero (Godwin) Ede
- By Amatoritsero (Godwin) Ede
- Published May 6, 2007
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Amatoritsero (Godwin) Ede
Amatoritsero (Godwin) Ede is a poet and MA student of literature at the Hannover University in Germany. He has had poems featured in Voices From The Fringe, Junge Nigerianische Lyrik, The Fate of Vultures (BBC Prize winning poems) and a host of journals, newspapers and magazines. He is the author of Collected Poems: A Writer's Pains & Caribbean Blues. Ede won in 1998 the All Africa Okigbo Prize for Literature. He is a founding member of the German chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors.
View all Entries by Amatoritsero (Godwin) EdeBeside the Lagoon
Does the river have tongue
To stick out in rudeness?
White desolate miles
Broken, firing the cold sun
Against the hard morning mist
Enlightening my immense shore
Disturbingly green.
Watery mermaid voices
querying, "Is poverty so rich?"
I run from this rootless faith
And yet I turn,
Holding my wishes by the ears
Dipping my hopes in salty waters
My breath hanging like a question mark
Querying, "Is poverty so rich?"
Nausea
Sharp sighs murder the air.
Christ! a sad thought
Transfigured
Hangs over my hung head
On the cross
Grey silences,
Happy moments sadly dead.
Picture on the Wall
A dead man sits on the wall
Staring at me
His chair of soldierly fame in flames
History's sad solemn burning sun-dimmed eyes
Trapped
The time-wrecked sleeves and epaulette
Awkward and rank
Shadow figures
across time's retina
Leaving no lasting impressions;
Fixtures on our walls
In their natural states
Spread The Word
2 Responses to "Beside the Lagoon - Poems by Amatoritsero (Godwin) Ede" 
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said this on 03 Feb 2006 11:52:02 AM EDT
I think as much as I appreciate your poetic style, it generally holds no immediate appeal to my sense of imagination. This may be because when I read your poetry, it came to me as poems...just poems...noemotions.And I feel that it is in beautifully-splashed emotions that poetry finds its voice.
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