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A Cry Of The Poet
(Poesía)
23-08-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
I have not been to Jerusalem
neither Antioch nor Damascus
but anyone who sees me spits
and loathe me like one of the lepers
chronicled in the Holy book
on the streets of these clans.
Up and down, I am fit.
But, one thing!
My pocket...
A Letter To My Queen
(Poesía)
4-12-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
A Letter To My Queen
My Queen, it’s been a pretty time
Since I have not heard from you.
My mind tells me that you could be asking:
Why is he suffering himself writing always?
Who is he to me? I don’t even know him!
Know that love...
A wondrous son 'Living' in the cemetery
(Poesía)
2-03-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
A wondrous son 'Living' in the cemetery
Life has no meaning, likewise
Death has no meaning, for
Sometimes people who are alive
sometimes pray they're dead;
Which one is then preferable?
Children grow to grow old
Elders grow to live...
An Accident
(Poesía)
2-04-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
The browsing was over one hot afternoon.
I stood by the roadside sweating,
Waiting for a ride home
When I saw a friend driving & he stopped.
I went in.
Our laughs sent renditions
To the contempt of onlookers.
We zoomed off still...
An Open Letter To Atiku
(Opiniones)
1-06-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
An Open Letter To Atiku
It is with a throbbing heart full of joy and absolute sincerity that I write this letter to you. I wouldn’t know what a man is meant for on the green earth, if not to serve and praise his Maker in truth and in spirit...
An Open Letter To The One I Love
(Opiniones)
27-02-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
An Open Letter To The One I Love
I once told myself, when I was ruminating about you, that you are a great one who is orderly in nature’s way of normal growth of her IDEA worth being around for the betterment of life.
My action of writing...
And, The World Ends Here
(Poesía)
30-08-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
And, The World Ends Here
Like it is in the Middle-east
and the fictitious films we watch;
like that, they come unleashing terror,
abetting to the sufferings of the citizens
with high sounding sounds, gbum-gbum,
and it send out the spirits...
Anyadike's Father and His Story
(Relato Breve)
1-06-2005
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Anyadike was a young boy from Okebi village, say, 19 years of age, groomed a Christian, and morality in him was at its expediency. People within and outside his jurisdiction were in deep passion with the manner he behaved, without quarrels with...
Apology
(Poesía)
18-06-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
You are a princess I adore.
You would find this a joke,
But my feelings for you
Are no joke.
It would sound untrue to you,
But my feelings for you are true and real.
You would say whoa, but I can’t let go.
I will keep on begging and...
April Polls, 2007
(Poesía)
2-04-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
I mused today
We have to be careful
Loafers are on it again
They yell conceited words
They yell deceitful words
Lacuna in their hearts
Faces appear benevolent
Their hearts lackadaisical to what they promise
They are burlesque of our...
Assassin
(Poesía)
23-08-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Mordant and Mawkish are your dealings,
So what wisdom do you have?
Our best men have become
Your best enemies,
Our wise men are ashamed
And our land dismayed in dire;
Everyone is not given to covetousness
But you are hurting healing wound...
At Your Funeral
(Poesía)
4-04-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
This day was when I found the greatest Passion,
As people wailed and mourned truly from their hearts.
Rolled on the earth with eyes watered, stood
At the tip of your everlasting home
Waving hands of farewell.
“Sand-to-sand,...
Baby you’re beautiful to be married
(Poesía)
11-06-2005
by Odimegwu Onwumere
You’re beauteous
As you just passed
My mind passed away
But later ricocheted to know you
The rain drizzled on my dress,
The mud plastered my pant
But my mind didn’t think much
About my injuries, but you!
You are tall and huge
Of...
Because I Found You
(Poesía)
4-11-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Because I Found You
I was once a parallel line
Running from a point
without any destination.
I was once a loner
Left alone at the lonely road
back way.
I was once cynical
Seeing everybody as a hypocrite,
Criticizing every event...
But I could not yet define illiteracy!
(Poesía)
11-06-2005
by Odimegwu Onwumere
He came to our country
The man from France
He greets everyone he sees
Symbolizing such with his hands-raised
And smile so cheery and awesome
He walks from street to street
And children follow him follow him because of his colour?
One...
Can you assist my voice from there?
(Poesía)
6-06-2005
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Mentally challenged
Yesterday, he begged me for money
When I was broke.
Today, I saw him eating
Morbidly, than food, I smelled
I began to question:
Where is the government?
Where are the philanthropists?
Where are the psychiatrists?...
Causes Of Stress In Genders
(Poesía)
2-04-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Causes Of Stress In Genders
When the paycheck is less than
The pile-up bills
Man is bound to be troubled.
But when the paycheck piles-up
And there is less love for a woman,
She is bound to be troubled.
Copyright 2007 Odimegwu Onwumere,
Definition Of Love
(Poesía)
2-04-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Definition Of Love
My Dear,
Never you be a nagger
When stressed-up with loads of life,
When life wants to drive you
To being mentally absent,
Lack spiritual harmony, lack of prayer,
Betrayer of trust to those who held you in high esteem....
Disability, Beyond Physical
(Poesía)
21-03-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Disability: Something that disables
or disqualifies one.
We have disability of the mind
We have disability of the heart
We have disability of the eye
When one has no money
to execute an obligation
he is disabled, or
when love is broken,...
Ecology
(Poesía)
28-03-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
One day I left my home
To the evil forest in my land
To see nature as it was
During a dry season.
I saw ants were busy/diligent
Gathering their crust-food.
Each of them goes in, comes out
To gather more of the food.
As I stood on...
For J.T Tom-West
(Poesía)
1-11-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
For J.T Tom-West
(A Poem From a Fan)
When the news came that unfaithful day:
“A Nollywood actor died in auto crash”
Little did I think it was true
Let alone being you, J.T Tom-West.
I cannot realize how I felt
But I remembered...
Friend
(Poesía)
2-04-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Friend
I remind you of the song and I sing it
Now you’ve forgotten the lines
Because it contains love.
Where love is the answer
The song has to be repeated.
Destiny is wonderful,
It has brought us together.
I pray Eloheenu to...
God, I Remind You Of This…..
(Poesía)
6-09-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
God, I Remind You Of This…..
By Odimegwu Onwumere
My forefathers believed in You
and revered You in no little ways
though not through the Son-of-Man.
My parents know You
through the Son-of-Man
and from them I came to know You....
Greed
(Poesía)
28-03-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
You breed strong desire
For more food, more wealth, and so on
With an egoistic sense of pursuit in oneself
To pursue things more than is right and reasonable.
Because of you
People rape, kill, swear, rig elections,
Envy, lie, war, play...
Happy Birthday, Chika
(Poesía)
21-03-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Happy Birthday, Chika
( March …)
If man does not die,
what would the world’s population have been?
A yam that was not planted,
can never reincarnate.
There is no time for reflection,
like on ones birthday.
It has mammoth...
Happy New Year
(Poesía)
14-05-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
HAPPY NEW YEAR
At the beginning of every-year,
Our hearts make resolutions,
While proletarian resolutions,
are revolution while unattended to.
The bourgeoisie are sheer undemocratic,
as if they are not the people
who map out...
Have You Seen Chikaodinaka?
(Poesía)
15-10-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Have You Seen Chikaodinaka?
You dream of your girl,
You cry of your girl,
You complain of your girl,
You mouth of your girl,
Have you seen Chikaodinaka?
But if you see Chikaodinaka,
What would you say?
As Angels guides immortals,
And...
Have You Seen?
(Poesía)
2-04-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Have you seen
Where our knowledge
Has taken us to?
Have you seen
Where our civilization
Has taken us to?
Have you seen
Where our globalization
Has taken us to?
Men now cry.
Women now watch.
Children now console.
Have you seen...
Heat of Passion
(Opiniones)
16-04-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Heat of Passion
Love was said is a cosmic culture. It has no definite definition because before one has to define love the person has to first define choice. That is why, because of choice, we see different people in different relationships....
Hirelings
(Poesía)
17-08-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
They took us by surprise, the first day
and dropped many people lifeless
in the streets, roads and everywhere.
They turned the bright day, black
and sent us packing, scampering
and motionless to work or from work.
They shot sporadically...
I Feel The Love
(Poesía)
25-06-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
I feel the love now that I miss you,
now that I could not hear from you
but I will never get tired ruminating your smiles,
the sound of your name sends chills down my spine,
and when I watch your picture anytime
I close my eyes!
Your love is...
If I die, I Died because Of You
(Poesía)
4-12-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
If I die, I Died because Of You
I remember the day I contacted you,
When you wake-up my heart
With a tamers sincerity and generous humane;
You coloured my world with advice, courage,
Caring ‘truly’ and never failed….
But today, you...
In A Relationship
(Poesía)
2-11-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
In A Relationship
Some people are happier than others.
Relationship
Crops-up sometimes in inexplicable manner,
Sometimes with transient feelings like,
Would this workout or would it not.
But such feelings about a fellow
Should not...
Irene
(Poesía)
28-03-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Irene
Irene is making me shy and cry,
not for anything personal.
Her indescribable beauty
is the obverse
of her real self.
This makes her banality a colleen
whom just 'beautiful' can't
explicate the picture of the beauty
I mean...
Is it Neo-Slavery?
(Poesía)
17-06-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
It is inimical, criminal and bestial
Especially when a child
Is forcefully taken on the road
To work as slaves in oddity;
Sometimes the oldest is eleven.
They are sometimes
Isolated from the outside world
For a long period of time
They...
It Was Not ‘Rudeness’
(Poesía)
1-11-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
It Was Not ‘Rudeness’
The computer created a misunderstanding
When we met online and were chatting.
I was seeing what she was typing
But I couldn’t type from here: PC hung.
She thought it’s my making
Not to even say ‘bye’...
Lamentation
(Poesía)
9-11-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Lamentation
Those we relied on, yes
We relied on them
With a view
That we were together,
But they have sold us
For a peace of silver.
They oppress the poor,
They crush the needy
And publish lies
On the pages of newspapers
In place...
Language as Violence, Violence as Language: Expression of Violence as a Substitute for Communication
(Poesía)
29-05-2005
by Odimegwu Onwumere
The youths' means for communication
Ignorance is a pandemic as is HIV/AIDS.
Train him, control him and care for him.
It's disgusting to neglect his fundamental needs and pleas
It's injurious to see him grow branchless
in the norm, hale and...
Like This, Like That
(Poesía)
15-10-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Like This, Like That
The day I told her, “I’ve fallen in love”
She jokingly replied, “Did you fall
on the floor or on the ground,
Or on the sand or gravel?” I laughed
And laughed and restrained my laughter
But could not and...
Love begins With Me
(Poesía)
2-05-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
“Love Begins With Me”
(The Essence Of Love)
Love: You aren’t an irritant, not a moron,
don’t take but give, don’t frustrate people;
you are perfect because you’re top priority,
and you’re the cradle of my aims/objectives...
Love on the portal
(Poesía)
18-04-2005
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Think that I do not Love you?
When my tears wet my foam
At night your thought covers me
Like a brilliant sun sharpening
My heart with ruminations
Melancholied I slip this hint
To be read in confidentiality
But publicised in your heart...
Marriage
(Poesía)
4-12-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Marriage
Marriage is a legal union
Between two people
(Or is there any other meaning?).
It is an institution that started in Eden
It was meant for perfect companionship
Extending to a perpetual bliss
With its lucence and dissemination...
MDG Contest: The future hope
(Poesía)
14-04-2005
by Odimegwu Onwumere
The future hope
Are we not the future hope
We that are negated in all sphere of life
In Pub, Politics and Policy making
For being young in their eyes,
Becuase of our character,
But matured at heart,
Because of our knowledge?
Our...
My Spirit Is Lifted Up
(Poesía)
4-11-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
My Spirit Is Lifted Up
Whenever I look at your affable face
My spirit is lifted up with your smile.
My mum had daughters who’re my sisters
And I love them unconditionally,
And none of them can be my wife.
I had aunts and friends
But...
New Age
(Poesía)
15-11-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
(For the love of NewAge newspapers and the disgust of its recent managerial crisis)
This is a newspaper: edited by Steve Osuji
(He evinces great intelligence)
It has imprisoned the poet’s heart
With its ebullient journalistic/literary...
Night In The Day
(Poesía)
17-08-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Now our hearts hang in-between, and
our blood run more than its acceleration
since they came firing, killing, not animals,
not the culprits
but innocent individuals.
We did not start this chaos,
we did not start this nuisance,
we did not...
OBJ, weep not for Nigeria
(Opiniones)
1-06-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
OBJ, weep not for Nigeria
IT was a friend of mine who characterized ex-president, Olusegun Obasanjo, as a comedian and all his features to be theatric. He analyzed the eight-year rule of Obasanjo as a magnanimous charade.
According to media...
Ode To water
(Poesía)
23-08-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
I revere you!
I revere and concur with you.
You are clement and clincher of tastes,
never been scarce until today
of my existence on the globe.
Condor of life, albeit tasteless,
but even nectar is far bitter in contest
with you.
You...
Ode To water
(Poesía)
23-08-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
I revere you!
I revere and concur with you.
You are clement and clincher of tastes,
never been scarce until today
of my existence on the globe.
Condor of life, albeit tasteless,
but even nectar is far bitter in contest
with you.
You...
Pa Gabriel Okara
(Poesía)
6-09-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
He is not a bad advertisement
to the world of penpushers
pushing out cabal words of the mind.
Give me your blessings, oh!
Pa Gabriel Imomotimi Okara, for
I have made orison to the Creator,
without any further procrastination.
May I...
Poem for Susan Tony Alamo
(Poesía)
6-10-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Poem for Susan Tony Alamo
My glowing eyes reading
“Alamo world newsletter” dampened
My heart glowing with enjoyment,
Enjoying the literature filled with
Gospel spices when it caught:
“Pastor Tony Alamo with
his late wife Susan”....
Politician
(Poesía)
28-03-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Regardless the principle of politics,
What is politics?
Are you a politician with bad sense
Of politics as a career?
You come to the people and you swear;
You make promises of heaven on earth
To the people, but do a different ball game...
Relationship Isn't Easily Placed...
(Poesía)
22-06-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
My Queen,
Like graduating from the school,
like cooking, like writing et al
I have come to know that good things
don't come easily, a fact that explained that
healthy relationship isn't easily placed.
I don't have problem with you and...
Sahara Desert
(Poesía)
16-05-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Like the heart of a nursing
Mother numbs over a nubile daughter,
Or the heart of a father munches and is muddled
Over the mundane state of any man dying,
Or the murk moves shown
By the modern day muezzin
From the minaret of Ivory Tower,...
Sex Is Not Love, Love Is Not Sex
(Opiniones)
17-03-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Sex Is Not Love, Love Not Sex
Hello,
As sex is not love, love not sex. Money is not love, love is not money.
Ones children are bound to pick up the same attitude from the parents, the parents’ friends or the neighbours.
Parents that...
She Is A Beauty
(Poesía)
31-12-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
She Is A Beauty
Chikaodinaka,
You are a beauty, intelligent,
And makes sense you do not know
And all are my dream.
I see you not change, not
Having a twinge of the mind
with the changing day.
Loving you will dwell in my heart...
Something In Her Influenced Me
(Poesía)
1-11-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Something In Her Influenced Me
I have never been susceptible:
Easily influenced by feelings
Or easily fall in love.
But something in her
Ignited my declaration:
I love you.
Her manner is susceptible of proof
Among other colleens...
STAND UP Against Poverty: But What Is Poverty?
(Poesía)
2-10-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
MILLENIUM Campaign: STAND UP Against Poverty
I, Odimegwu Onwumere, a Nigerian poet and creative writer, neither a group who would understand this memorable call “STAND UP Against Poverty” do I have, nor could I organize an event, but I send...
The Annoying Thing
(Poesía)
28-06-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
The annoying thing
Is worth annoying for indeed;
It is not only Kaffir they call us
Is the bane, but questioning of
Everything that we do:
Who gave you the certificate to teach us?
Where did you get such qualifications?
Who are you to hold...
The Conductor Ran Away With My Money
(Relato Breve)
30-05-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
The Conductor Ran Away With My Money
Ezechi called me from Awka, the capital of Anambra State the other day, where he is working. Ezechi is my friend. He holds a Bsc in Hospital and Tourism Management. His call was for me to help him send...
The Energy In Man And Woman
(Poesía)
4-11-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
The Energy In Man And Woman
Every man or woman
Has where he or she
Directs his or her energy.
Some to prostitution, drinking,
Gambling, scam, sports,
Reading and writing.
Not where a man or a woman
Directs his or her energy
Is what...
The First Epistle To The One I Love
(Opiniones)
2-04-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
The First Epistle To The One I Love
Dating is a delectable oblation. It breeds chances for closeness, personal development, happiness, and a great deal of fun.
The very first day I contacted you, it did not take a pitch of a salt to express...
The Lady Of My Heart
(Poesía)
28-06-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Can we get married
So that we can share one soul
Out of our two souls;
One heart, out of our two hearts;
And one voice, out of our two voices?
You have to think about this
With one soul, one heart
And tell me with one voice
The Masquerades
(Poesía)
15-10-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
The Masquerades
Now the faithful
Are preparing the masquerades
For a great festival in Two thousand and seven.
Many hearts are highly beating,
Highly panting like a raced deer,
Because the Caines among them
Have started their practice...
The preacher and the drunk
(Poesía)
16-04-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
The preacher had lasted for hours
Preaching the Good News.
The atmosphere was hot.
The drunk walked to the preacher
And said:
Pray for me, man of God.
What the preacher knows best to do,
The preacher stretched his hands in prayers:...
The Problem With Africa
(Poesía)
2-04-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
The Problem With Africa
We Africans seem to live for the present
rather than plan for the future.
We have many things planned for one day,
and could not be able to finish
for one hundred years.
The greed among our leaders is replete...
The Rebel Poet
(Poesía)
28-05-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
The Rebel Poet
(For Ebereonwu)
The propensity for you
to have known love
from all who love you
was truncated by the hater of our existence
but accept this wriggle of my mind
as a token of love from a lover.
A lot of poets...
The Saint from the Broad-Road
(Poesía)
8-04-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Odimegwu Onwumere's concept: One thing about writers, they do not realise that history, events, circulation, truth, time etc. are entrusted into their hand. Though, I may not have liked Audu Ogbe, but for having shown the hap qualities found in...
The story not told of Amaechi
(Opiniones)
16-08-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
There is no amount of good that a man could do to his concubine’s child that the child would call him daddy. And the man could be trying all he can to please the child but for the fact that enmity is greatest at home, the child would not call...
The Widow
(Poesía)
12-11-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
The Widow
Her problem started
After her husbad died
Of HIV/AIDS; and
After few months
Her little child followed.
She was emotionally electrocuted
But had to hold onto fate
which was the only thing that was
Left with her in tears and...
The Winner
(Poesía)
30-08-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
The Winner
The election is over and the winners
are celebrating their un-earned victory
but we are with their result.
Opposition cries blue murder and foul,
characterized by gigantic fraud,
full of irregularities
but we are with...
They Promised Us
(Poesía)
28-06-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
They Promised Us
They made us promises of life:
To create Three to Ten million
Job opportunities for us
And they gave us hopes of
Standard roads, constant
Electricity supply, Good education
System, exhibition of the Rule of Law
And...
Trouble is Meant for Human Beings
(Poesía)
4-12-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Are you one of the people who say:
I was not born to suffer,
I was not meant to suffer,
I was not meant to borrow,
I was not meant to lack?
Then you are making a grave mistake,
Because trouble and its consequences
Are meant for human...
Understanding My Friend
(Poesía)
2-04-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Understanding My Friend
Man cannot be buoyant always:
Either he breaks physical or financial
Sometimes.
This is where two sane people
Are better than one
Comes in.
But he, whom I call my friend,
A madman is better than him.
I...
Unfortunate and Fortunate
(Poesía)
2-04-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Unfortunate and Fortunate
My friend is always reading
Because going for refreshment
To a pub he cannot afford.
He looked at his dad one day
Walking home uneasily.
My friend looked at me and said:
It is unfortunate.
I noticed...
Very Soon
(Poesía)
28-03-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Very Soon
Very, very, soon, very soon
We shall see the mighty falling:
(Those who have held us hostage for decades),
Our tears and sorrows shall testify against them
And our ‘meekness’ shall we be exalted of.
Then shall love and peace...
Weep Not, Nigerian Child!
(Poesía)
10-08-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Weep not, Nigerian Child!
The lands are arable,
But people cannot plough?
People have built houses
Through suffering with modicum sums,
Trained children through bitter-sweet
And children had not tales:
Than the tales of woes
Weep not,...
Why I Like Africa
(Poesía)
2-11-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Why I Like Africa
I thank God
that I was born in Africa
because I love being
wet by the morning dews
and also enjoy the sun
that sharpens my skin
as ink does to a white paper.
I love going to cut
hey for my goats every...
Why The ‘Dirt’ In Our Politics
(Opiniones)
19-08-2007
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Especially now that a brother can kill a brother, sister can kill a sister etcetera, because of political positions, the game of politics and its practitioners in our country are in trouble. They are rotters in a ritzy country. Their conducts are...
Yes, I know
(Poesía)
4-11-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
Yes, I know
I know that Africa
Needs medical doctors, lawyers,
Nurses engineers, writers/poets,
Others to move ahead
From the crawling state
To the peak of utopia.
But don’t know
When Africa would embrace love
To restore peace
In...
You Are Wonderful
(Poesía)
3-12-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
You Are Wonderful
As if I was pristine locked in the village,
Do you know that I call your name openly,
While sleeping, eating, reading or writing
And my brain walks my head to and fro
With benign revolutionary spirit
Like a substance...
You Have Made Me Feel Guilty
(Poesía)
15-11-2006
by Odimegwu Onwumere
You have made me feel guilty
You have made me feel guilty
Without a word from you since then:
What have I written? What is the problem?
You have made me go down in penitence.
Did I hurt you?
You are an epitome of beauty, wisdom,...
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