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Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa
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The drowned, not yet born.

 

The fish has eaten away

the worms over hooks,

we are left to the hooks.

 

Living breath conjuring

up dark waters.

 

Dawn rubs its wet nose over grass

as dusk rubs its back

over the windows by night.

 

Ghost faces underfoot.

The soil is soaked with unknown.

Silent Drums

 

Gonge dancers sit

thinking of music

 

that once brought

joy to the heart.

 

Silent stay their drums

like monkeys

 

dreaming of banana.

poems: copyright 2008, Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa
 
 
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