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Buck Collector
(Poetry)
3-01-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
Accursed you were from Eden,
From a singular act made infamous
It was enough to span eternity
From hence, you became the fall taker
Blamed for every fall in virtue
More hated than the Sinai scapegoat
If there were a mistake,
If there...
Ebbs of Life
(Poetry)
12-12-2006
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
Swift are the ebbs of life,
This journey we yearn but fear,
Its blessings and surprises,
Perchance we are at the helm,
We may sail a known course.
The anchorless ship is our fear.
But for some it doesn’t matter,
Those crowned on high by the...
Goodbye Good Boy
(Poetry)
10-07-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
It didn’t come out like lightning,
Like a tree did the urge bloom,
Till time made it unbearable to take,
It is goodbye good boy.
Helping people for good,
Loving those that hate you,
Borrowed from but never paid back,
It is goodbye good...
Goodbye, Good boy
(Opinions)
5-07-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
It didn’t come out like lightning,
Like a tree did the urge bloom,
Till time made it unbearable to take,
It is good bye good boy.
Helping people for good,
Loving those that hate you,
Borrowed from but never paid back,
It is goodbye good...
Graveyard Stores.
(Poetry)
25-03-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
Look yonder no more for the treasure,
For in silence it lies waiting,
Lying waste for lack of use,
Perhaps for more years it would wait,
Until man decides to look within,
For that he sets sail to search,
The treasure may forever elude him....
He Ever Cares
(Poetry)
17-06-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
For all you’ve made all thine gifts,
Your son for the good and bad,
In your air no favorites exist,
Your rain of benefit to all,
The weed with wheat thrived,
Thunderstorms had no bias strides,
Earthquakes swallowed all,
Death visited all...
Heart in reins
(Poetry)
23-06-2008
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
The maples and ferns freely glide;
Their hearts are like a medallion worn;
Sentient man is free and in chains;
His heart in the alcove lies
As the feelings wither for fear.
Humility 195
(Short Story)
28-11-2006
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
It was just 11 in the morning but I was already prepared for my 12 o'clock lecture. The sun was out in its full brilliance but that wasn’t my reason for deciding to take a bike to school when I could have walked. The reason was that I wanted to be...
It's Never Our Fault
(Opinions)
21-04-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
“Oh you cannot blame me for that. I only did what my mother told me to do. If she were here, she would tell you so herself”. “But that is idiotic. You have to take the responsibility and you alone”.
There are few people who are ready to take...
Life
(Poetry)
7-01-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
Life is like a walk on a beach,
We leave different prints,
Prints that say who we are
Some so slight that we never notice,
Others so heavy we can't but notice,
So it is with all of life.
It makes the whole lot of difference,
Between those...
Love
(Poetry)
1-06-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
It comes calling
When you least expect,
Doesn’t need you to believe
Because it bends you to its whims,
Makes you do things,
That you’d fear to think,
It overthrows principles,
With its scary realities
Makes a child out of an adult,
Its...
LURE OF THE TABOO
(Poetry)
5-09-2006
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
It buds in the cradle,
The daily suggestion,
The cue and mental poison,
The shaping and carving of minds
To attune to the masses,
In bits we’re forged anew,
Well packaged and parceled,
We are introduced into life,
The good with its...
Me militant
(Poetry)
20-09-2009
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
I would buy me a Dane gun
And order a spear
make me a wooden gun
that I may qualify
Count me in and gimme my share
I have a gun and my machete
Gimme bread in return
and an oil well
I have no bread
I can’t earn bread
Both by book...
Night call bonanza
(Poetry)
24-08-2007
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
Heeeloo, heeeloo, he drawled,
Yes, who is, are you?
Angry hands rub furtively,
At the dreary sleepy eyes,
Untying the eyes and brain,
Hurt, the query popped,
Can’t you see my number?
Sorry I see it now,
But what an hour to call?
Hey,...
Nightmare
(Poetry)
16-08-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
A detour the sleep seemed,
To escape the raging nightmare,
But it followed in pursuit,
Assailing me even more,
Being pinioned by them big books,
Was more than I bargained for,
It was okay in reality,
But in this unconscious paradise?
I...
Overcoming Lies
(Opinions)
20-11-2003
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
Oxford Advanced Learners dictionary of current English defines lying as ‘to say something that one known is not true’. Hence lying is a conscious act, even for those compulsive and incorrigible liars that lie unconsciously because lying has...
Phases in Life
(Poetry)
6-05-2006
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
Popular today, notorious tomorrow,
Acclaimed today, booed tomorrow,
Anathema today, doctrine tomorrow,
Devilish today, saintly tomorrow,
Bad today good tomorrow,
Extremist today, liberal tomorrow,
It was never different,
Evil loses its...
Poisoned by the past
(Short Story)
19-03-2005
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
Youth makes such opinionated fools of us all. It takes most of us an experience to understand but we need not be fools to be wise; knowledge is better. I guess my old history teacher was wrong and right after all. Wrong because he believed that...
Resurrect Education.
(Poetry)
7-12-2006
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
You stare about in confusion,
Look no further for the murderer,
They are here with us, we with them.
Lay down your weapons and accept,
You ask when she was killed,
We killed her long ago and on.
When for revenue she was kidnapped,
Denied...
The Bane of the Health Care System in Nigeria
(Opinions)
4-03-2009
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
“Madam, how long has this child been sick?”
“Almost ten days now, Doc.”
“What have you been doing for the child since then?”
“I gave her some drugs.”
“What are the names of the drugs ma?”
“Emmm, I don’t know sir but the chemist...
THE COMMONER.
(Poetry)
10-10-2006
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
They call her rustic,
But grandma knows
Better math than they.
If we are ten and
Have twenty to share,
She’d give us two each,
But they give us none,
Yet she is illiterate.
And they are learned.
A country of flowing milk,
Where dirty...
The Cost of Love
(Poetry)
26-07-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
This love, what is thine worth?
I’d happily pay in cash,
Just to be loved right for once,
But on a variable you are purchased.
Human factor, individual factor.
More than man to know,
What haven’t I done?
How many times I’ve...
The Smile
(Poetry)
27-04-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
Never had to search for it,
For ever present it waited.
It didn’t have to be formed,
It had always been there since time,
So infectious was the smile,
That the devil would return it.
Untainted by deceit or pretence.
It could only come...
The Victory
(Short Story)
17-05-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
In the dawn of the nights struggle,
When the unsettling ripple settles,
The ponds quietness in stead,
When there aren’t more goals to achieve,
A boring calm takes over the excitement.
The victory won seems to sting,
For there aren’t things...
This Sacrifice
(Poetry)
19-03-2005
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
A noble act it seemed,
But time wore it out.
The bony frame now remains,
Picked clean of flesh by crow.
This sacrifice for siblings,
This obedience to tradition,
This obedience to parents,
This underselling of self,
Family is...
TIME
(Poetry)
27-11-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
See how she leaps,
There but not any more.
Only a perception of thee,
Beyond our every control.
You are nobody’s wife,
Though thou promise thy love.
Late do we all realize,
That we’re just in queue.
Thou elusive bait,
You outwit and...
We All Fall
(Poetry)
30-04-2004
by Ebuenyi Ikenna D.
We all fall.
Only pride pipes otherwise,
But it takes a fall to know,
That we aren’t that perfect.
Time changes it all.
The wrong isn’t in the fall,
It is in our disposition.
In feeling we should never...
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