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Sonuçlar (40)
A-AH! SHH!!
(Şiir)
16-04-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
It hurts to remember.
How the guns cracked,
How with sneering gesture
they raped, maimed, looted,
Looted a people – the OGONI
Raped a land – OGONI
“Aa-ah!” are their cries,
“shh!” their tormentors shout.
Day after day,
the land dies....
Absolute
(Şiir)
2-12-2007
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
U feel my being
Yes, you feel my being.
It's hard to understand
honey, how well stepped
You've matched into me;
I hold so fast to all you told,
and glue so tight to all u 'fold.
The lyrics of that song
come to me like the waves
to the...
At The S-Bay
(Şiir)
7-04-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
My breathings are heavy,
My heart soaks in the mud
Of the moment
Don't ask how it went
With the meds downtown
Don't dance at the foot
Of the capes…hai ha aha!
My snorting went up
More than a notch
Thank goodness it
Wasn't as bad as...
Before the Rains
(Şiir)
7-04-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
We’re done with festivities.
It was mid-February
Cultivations just began.
Our euphoria’s maximum.
Our energy?
A compendium of zeal
Our gods and ancestors
Spoke soothingly from
their abodes
We’re ready for a
bountiful year
Hoping the...
Bubbles of the Heart
(Şiir)
12-10-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
A yesterday was
when I met my today.
A tomorrow may be
if my today gives
me up for adoption.
Summer just left
for a break;
Autumn’s here
for now.
Winter will soon
dress us in white;
Spring springs our
souls to blossom.
Who knows if...
Cracks
(Şiir)
24-01-2007
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
When I fall within the cracks,
Nay, they say, through the cracks,
I land within feet of my anthill;
The landing staircases stream
From without crooking about
Like an accursed smoking snake;
That is, when I fall within the cracks,
Nay, they...
Crows can fly…"Never Forgets".
(Şiir)
21-02-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Crows are rare birds.
Ask me why they’re
So and I’ll answer
“Go ask the crows!”
Though they can,
And act it out like
Their peer birds,
Crows are atypical.
Crows are black,
Gregarious, sharp;
Crows are revered,
Feared, ravenous,...
De Blackman’s smile
(Şiir)
16-04-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
As the rain fell,
Upon the shaft
A spiral blast
Shot through its hole…
It’s shinning in the rain!
De Blackman stood
As the rain fell
As the sun shown
He stood
A hoe on his right shoulder
On the other, a bundle of net…
It’s raining...
Do you?
(Şiir)
3-04-2008
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Do you condemn a man
Who tries to try genuinely
Without flowers,
Without sweeteners,
Just bare and raw
… just as it is?
Like water
Without coloration?
Like tea without sugar?
Like bone without flesh,
Just bare, dry, and raw?
... do you...
For U, My Queen
(Şiir)
12-12-2007
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
she walks majestic
swift as the passing wind
her beauty unrivalled
sweeping her passage
with dazzling smiles
that pacify prying eyes
and simmer longing hearts
her eyes blend in accord
with nature's miens
a quiet fire sprays from
behind...
For You, Painter
(Şiir)
1-06-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Painter, if I were to
choose a calling, yours
I’ll never begrudge.
That was then, not now.
At the height of my growth,
Painter, I’ve grown to think
twice… I wish I was you!
I’ve wrapped my fingers
around your brushes, not
letting go...
Gold Black
(Şiir)
6-11-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Gold black
Jet black
In the bowls
Of our soil!
Black gold
Crispy bills
From the doles
Of our toil!
Heydays Over!
(Şiir)
14-01-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
It was short but glorious.
Beautiful as the sprouting
Flowers of spring,
Comely as a young maiden,
Relaxing as morning breeze;
The sun shone in the middle
Of night, holding humans
Breathless and bewildered;
The moon just stood radiant...
I remember U!
(Şiir)
1-09-2009
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
I remember the looks
so penetrating, so deep
silent and innocent
filled with questions
though ready to be asked
wouldn't be because
those beautiful lips
have been trained
for confidentiality;
I remember the smiles
so sincere,
so...
I'M AN OGONI
(Şiir)
14-01-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Part 1
I’m an Ogoni.
I’m a farmer.
I don’t plant
And not tend.
I plant and tend
Notwithstanding
The condition.
I’m an Ogoni.
I’m a fisherman.
I don’t cast my
Nets and run.
I cast and pull
Not minding the
Storm or rapids.
I’m...
In case: a letter to the lukewarm
(Şiir)
12-08-2009
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Part 1:
…You Tell
“Not at this time!”
You just told me.
I’d thought you’d
Exercise some patience,
Look around you
Then tell me, that is,
If it is still necessary
To say: “not at this time!”
But, you just told me,
Even when the world...
It’s Morning!
(Şiir)
29-11-2007
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Wake up sweetie!
wake up, look around you,
It's morning, it's morning!
Wake up my princess!
Look, look beyond these
Inner shores...see out there,
Lots and lots waiting on
The Wings of time and space
Wake up my morning rose!
Rise above the...
Joyous memory
(Şiir)
20-03-2008
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
The morning rises early
With my heart.
Like a panther yearns
For water and strength,
So does my heart as it
Rises with the morning.
The morning speaks to
The coming events of
Human seasoning,
And breaks the tidal
Waves of existence;...
Junior
(Şiir)
21-08-2008
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
He fills the house with
Jubilant presence,
Jumping up and down
Every couch,
Commenting on
Everything in-view;
Agile and alive,
Strong and buoyant…
His name is Junior,
And,
Junior loves so to be called that
Way… just Junior,...
Keep a Smile
(Şiir)
6-09-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Keep a smile.
There's nothing like it.
A smile's a panacea,
nay, a curative unparalleled;
Even in the worst of moments,
a smile's the answer.
It shines through like
morning sun in summer;
Keep a smile, not a spite.
Let it swell like a...
KÉNWIGBARA
(Şiir)
7-04-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Kέnwigbara,
Several times I’ve thought of you.
I think of your battered harbors,
Memories of colonial cultivations
On the affluent oil river;
I think of your narrow-potopotric
Streets endangered more by
The debris of their old castles;...
Know what?
(Şiir)
25-04-2007
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Know what?
It’s not the mindset we carry
From the hoods of childhood
That imprisons us in cocoons.
Know what?
It’s not the ephemeral drumbeats
Or the jingles of commercialization
That drives humanity close to insanity.
Know what?...
Look … Son
(Şiir)
6-11-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Look into my eyes, son
These songs you hear
Today are forever ever.
They’re songs of our
Souls from our souls
They’re songs sang
With our souls…our all!
Son, can you hear the
Drum-beats and shrill
Voices that issue from
Farmlands,...
Man-a-Toptree
(Şiir)
22-07-2007
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
The man-a- treetop was a man
of great substance and sensibility.
Substance and sensibility?
You bet! You bet!
…remember to start worrying
about the man-a-treetop
when his roots are up...
Know what, son?
Don’t pressure my man-a-treetop...
Maybe...maybe not...
(Şiir)
24-08-2007
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Maybe, maybe not,
The changing faces of our generation!
The 'lingering' sad tastes of our times!
It's an adventure maybe to nowhere,
Maybe to somewhere...
My soul, like an inferno,
Burns with wicked sadness!
These aches broil with...
Memories Ever Always
(Şiir)
27-04-2007
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
It wasn't the time that gave the meaning,
Even in the deep of all that the world
Had to offer;
It wasn't so much of the fun times either
It was, yes, it was those little things
You did in those sparked moments
To the world, they had no...
Memories Never Die
(Şiir)
19-02-2007
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Seasons come and go
Humans live and die
So are the grasses in
The summer and fall
But memories never die;
Seasons come and go
Humans live and die
So do the tides at
Flow and ebb
Yet legacies are rocks;
Sun rises in the east
Sun sets...
Moments!
(Şiir)
11-07-2008
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
I remember.
When I wake up in the morning,
before I go out for the day,
I remember.
I remember her that makes
me remember those lost
glorious moments.
As the sun climbs to
the top of mount Everest,
I remember.
I remember the rose...
My Heart
(Şiir)
21-08-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
My heart bubbles
with the wake of day.
Seamless evenings rock
the shores of night;
Thoughts, like canoes
berthed against bamboo
poles, dance furiously to
drumbeats of arriving
clandestine designs;
My heart sinks as I
set sail to...
Over Time...Hope
(Şiir)
23-01-2007
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Tonight I sleep over time.
Life, like a proverbial two-faced
dare-deviled forest warrior,
stampedes humanity into
a deficit cultivated in death;
Did I say I sleep over time?
Did you say you said so?
I as you wonder what life itself
will...
Raw Philosophy
(Şiir)
12-12-2007
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Leaves.
Leaves drop to earth
Some grey, some orange
Some dry and cracking
A branding construct
Humanity’s endeared to,
Yes, endeared to, forever!
Birds flap their wings
In merriment to the
Change of day, another day.
I can hear them...
Sometimes…
(Şiir)
12-12-2007
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Sometimes…
It’s just too tough
Too tough to decipher
Raw and pure honey
From mere tree-bark syrup;
Sometimes…
It’s easy to rub a dog’s nose
A dog’s nose with sweet scents
Confused for real dog bones
Dog isn’t stupid though....
That's What I Mean!
(Şiir)
6-11-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
One decade’s like ten seconds.
It’s like ten days of shine and rain.
It flies by without any respite;
What a trick nature pulls
On all of us...that’s what I mean!
I met her young and flowery
On an alien soil - Site de Comé,
In an unusual...
The Lone Spring
(Şiir)
14-01-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
It was long, long ago
When the waters gathered
Inside a shallow pool.
A lone spring in their
Member issues cadences
Of life so divine.
Yet little did the waters
Take notice…or if they
Did, it was pretence
Not to take notice…
The spring...
THE MOMENT - PART ONE
(Kısa Hikaye)
16-04-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
They had just finished love-making. It was a blissful moment. Outside, the evening rain tapped gently at the crest of their room’s wood-paneled window. Gentle, yet, audible. The candle-like rays of the dying evening sun shot out desperately,...
The Moment- Part Two
(Kısa Hikaye)
6-09-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
“It’s midnight, Esor. Wake up!” Dee-or shook her vigorously. He knew if Esor slept out tonight, hell would break loose following day. Prevention is better than cure, he cautioned himself. In his head, he rehearsed some poetic lines:
“The...
To my heart
(Şiir)
24-08-2007
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Stop looking gloomy
And downcast!
That’s not
Your portion.
Lift up your eyes,
Look around you to see
The joy. love and care.
Hold not back those
Bright smiles of yours.
Like the morning sun,
Let them break forth;
Let them break...
Tower Watch
(Şiir)
16-04-2007
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Shimmering of winds in flight,
glorious, glorious, glorious sight
chase budding glows of day;
A winking night
applaud
sumptuous might
of a waning day
pushed to rest on roses trays;
It won’t be for long before
morn wakes again…
just on...
Who Can Bear?
(Şiir)
31-07-2006
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
Who can bear this great torment
That seeps from the crevices
of the innermost being?
The eyes itch red and drip
Hot moistened rain…
Through shafts
Through windows
Not minding doors;
Oh what a life man must lead
From day to day!
It...
Wrong Way
(Şiir)
20-03-2008
by IKPOBARI SENEWO
This isn’t the way to fulfillment
This is the way to anarchy
This is the way to strife,
Yes, it’s the way to destruction!
We weren’t born to walk this
Way – the way to nothingness
We weren’t weaned to construct
A worthless rider-coach...
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