In Memory of Mattie Stepanek
but I have never seen it devour someone like this
I traveled into the strange lands; the land of beauty
suffused with human skulls and browned coffins
paralleled by the riddles and paradoxes of the world
and I saw what the earth has eaten; what it
dreams of shuffling down below its pines
mottling down the canals of joy
the émigré of the paned world of the dead
it devoured the pride of a nation, ridiculed the hand that made it
waned away the joy of the world and enraged the happiness
of them that were given him to cater for
a sublime peel of joy, surrounding the étagère
as the frangipani tree hovered all through the Burial Ground
shambled by the unearthing spree of the wind
the waxy air plumed and scattered him away
Oh! The land has eaten so much. It has devoured the innocent, the cruel
the spinning glees of the morning sun, the wasteful jackals of the forest
the earth the land---have eaten us so deep with no benevolence
the land has eaten us so deep
Poetry by Onyeka Nwelue
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Written on 2006-06-19 at 01:02
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The Earth
I have seen the earth devour menbut I have never seen it devour someone like this
I traveled into the strange lands; the land of beauty
suffused with human skulls and browned coffins
paralleled by the riddles and paradoxes of the world
and I saw what the earth has eaten; what it
dreams of shuffling down below its pines
mottling down the canals of joy
the émigré of the paned world of the dead
it devoured the pride of a nation, ridiculed the hand that made it
waned away the joy of the world and enraged the happiness
of them that were given him to cater for
a sublime peel of joy, surrounding the étagère
as the frangipani tree hovered all through the Burial Ground
shambled by the unearthing spree of the wind
the waxy air plumed and scattered him away
Oh! The land has eaten so much. It has devoured the innocent, the cruel
the spinning glees of the morning sun, the wasteful jackals of the forest
the earth the land---have eaten us so deep with no benevolence
the land has eaten us so deep
Poetry by Onyeka Nwelue
Read 870 times
Written on 2006-06-19 at 01:02
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