Featured Poem:
TEN CEMTIMETER HYPHEN
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Featured Poem:
TEN CEMTIMETER HYPHEN
GREEN LEAVES FALL AND DRY LEAVES TOO HOW OFTEN DO PEOPLE SPEAK ABOUT DEATH THE END OF MORTALITY YET THE BEGINNING OF ETERNITY.
DEATH LIKE AM ECLIPSE, GIVES A BRIEF DARKNESS, SWINGS THE MOOD OF THEY WHO ARE ENJOYING THE BENEFITS OF LIFE; OF THE LIFE OF OTHERS.
THE END OF A LIFE THAT IS TRANSIENT YET THE BEGINNING OF A LIFE THAT IS PERMANENT.
HOW OFTEN DO WE THINK OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THIS TRANSITION, FOR EVER SUFFERING?, OR FOREVER ENJOYING?,
THAT IS THE QUESTION
ONCE UPON A TIME, IN BETWEEN TIME IN THIS WORLD OF TIME, WAS THE ARRIVAL OF THE END OF THE LIFETIME OF THE MOTHER OF THE WIFE OF MY UNCLE IN THE LINEAGE OF MY MOTHER.
THEN WAS IT EXPEDIENT IN ACCORDANCE TO TRADITION THAT I Laud de Poet PUT ON CLOTH OF BLACK COLOUR
AFTER LAYING HER IN THE GRAVE SIX FEET, DROPPING FLOWERS, SHEDDING TEARS, AND THE “OSOFO” SAYING DUST TO DUST AND COMING FROM THE CEMETRY, DID MY EYES BEHOLD SOMETHING ON A TOMB-STONE THAT SLOWED THE PACE OF MY FEET.
IT WAS TEN CENTIMETERS HYPHEN,
FOR IN BETWEEN THE DATES YOU DIE IS A HYPHEN
JEN-BII AGORME, CHRISTO FOE AGORME, THAT IS THE GRAVEYARD OF THE WORLDLY’S, THE GRAVEYARD OF THE CHRISTIANS.
IN ANY OF THEM YOU FIND TOMB-STONES, AND ON THE TOMB-STONES THERE ARE WRITTEN DATES OF BIRTH AND DATES OF DEATH.
IN BETWEEN THESE TWO DATES IS A HYPHEN,
IN THAT HYPHEN LAYS THE LIFE YOU LIVED ON EARTH,
IN THAT HYPHEN LAYS THE PROBLEMS YOU CAUSED,
IN THAT HYPHEN LAYS THE PROBLEMS YOU SOLVED,
IN THAT HYPHEN IS EMBEDDED WHETHER YOU ARE JUST HISTORY OR PART OF HISTORY,
WHETHER YOUR LIFE IS A MISERY OR THE REVELATION WE A PROPHETIC MYSTERY.
FOR YOUR LIFE OF PERPETUITY, YOUR LIFE OF ETERNITY, BE IT HELL OF HEAVEN IS DETERMINED BY THE HYPHEN BETWEEN THE TWO DATES OF BIRTH AND OF DEATH,
AND NOT YOUR PLACE OF BURIAL
JEN-BII AGORME, CHRISTO FOE AGORME.
~LDP
GREEN LEAVES FALL AND DRY LEAVES TOO HOW OFTEN DO PEOPLE SPEAK ABOUT DEATH THE END OF MORTALITY YET THE BEGINNING OF ETERNITY.
DEATH LIKE AM ECLIPSE, GIVES A BRIEF DARKNESS, SWINGS THE MOOD OF THEY WHO ARE ENJOYING THE BENEFITS OF LIFE; OF THE LIFE OF OTHERS.
THE END OF A LIFE THAT IS TRANSIENT YET THE BEGINNING OF A LIFE THAT IS PERMANENT.
HOW OFTEN DO WE THINK OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THIS TRANSITION, FOR EVER SUFFERING?, OR FOREVER ENJOYING?,
THAT IS THE QUESTION
ONCE UPON A TIME, IN BETWEEN TIME IN THIS WORLD OF TIME, WAS THE ARRIVAL OF THE END OF THE LIFETIME OF THE MOTHER OF THE WIFE OF MY UNCLE IN THE LINEAGE OF MY MOTHER.
THEN WAS IT EXPEDIENT IN ACCORDANCE TO TRADITION THAT I Laud de Poet PUT ON CLOTH OF BLACK COLOUR
AFTER LAYING HER IN THE GRAVE SIX FEET, DROPPING FLOWERS, SHEDDING TEARS, AND THE “OSOFO” SAYING DUST TO DUST AND COMING FROM THE CEMETRY, DID MY EYES BEHOLD SOMETHING ON A TOMB-STONE THAT SLOWED THE PACE OF MY FEET.
IT WAS TEN CENTIMETERS HYPHEN,
FOR IN BETWEEN THE DATES YOU DIE IS A HYPHEN
JEN-BII AGORME, CHRISTO FOE AGORME, THAT IS THE GRAVEYARD OF THE WORLDLY’S, THE GRAVEYARD OF THE CHRISTIANS.
IN ANY OF THEM YOU FIND TOMB-STONES, AND ON THE TOMB-STONES THERE ARE WRITTEN DATES OF BIRTH AND DATES OF DEATH.
IN BETWEEN THESE TWO DATES IS A HYPHEN,
IN THAT HYPHEN LAYS THE LIFE YOU LIVED ON EARTH,
IN THAT HYPHEN LAYS THE PROBLEMS YOU CAUSED,
IN THAT HYPHEN LAYS THE PROBLEMS YOU SOLVED,
IN THAT HYPHEN IS EMBEDDED WHETHER YOU ARE JUST HISTORY OR PART OF HISTORY,
WHETHER YOUR LIFE IS A MISERY OR THE REVELATION WE A PROPHETIC MYSTERY.
FOR YOUR LIFE OF PERPETUITY, YOUR LIFE OF ETERNITY, BE IT HELL OF HEAVEN IS DETERMINED BY THE HYPHEN BETWEEN THE TWO DATES OF BIRTH AND OF DEATH,
AND NOT YOUR PLACE OF BURIAL
JEN-BII AGORME, CHRISTO FOE AGORME.
~LDP
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Amazing indeed interesting poem you have my teacher. you really showing the beauty of african writing. sir i am a teacher who wants to go into writing. i would be grateful if you you take as your student and train me in writing. thank you.