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Rape of Innocence – Poems by Ebele Chizea
RAPE OF INNOCENCE
Bloody Rivers
It was Sora who caused the flow
Barely a moon ago
She played ten-ten in dusty playgrounds
Under sunlit skies
Groans and Moans
The earth’s womb threatens to implode
Her insides smell like death
Flies and vultures ballooned with...
The Sky is a Spy – Poems by Adeola Ikuomola
BUNGALOWS ON THE GALLOWS
The bungalows are built on the gallows
New corpses galore in the churchyards
The national impress for the citizenries
To compress our dreams in nightmares
Sneezing is a call to mouthful mourning
And the morticians are reformed clowns
Their...
Digging up the Dreams – Poems by Adeola Ikuomola
DIGGING UP THE DREAMS
The sky was a wearied shepherd in the cave of gloom
The black thunderclouds were recalcitrant elephants
Raging furiously on the monumental mountain range
Protesting over the rumoured imminent resurrection
Of the conquering glory of the redeeming...
