Crisis Poems

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Death on Demand
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Death speaks one language, profane
And doomed to a lasting fate of increasing
Hate. It hides beneath trackless jungles,

Puking blood in volumes. Staining foliage
Of sacrilege, it renders a jungle homeless,
Preening itself of incestuous ability to kill.

Death resides permanently in Golgotha —
That arena for killing — you well remember it:

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The Countenance of Deluge
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Cries from its voice.
On its face, a mask of demon,
And its countenance meanly dark.

The stars depart as Deluge stumbles.
Transmontane haloes quench their light
At the basement of valleys,
Retreating from the courage of waters.

Countenance of cornucopia,

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The Church
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

During the peace of the altar,
Pews knelt down piously;
The pulpit stood and conducted
Peace;
Verdure, rosary and the paternoster
Bloomed;
And the clergy hummed soulfully.

Seasons.
Roars, rasps and hisses of tension

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Yesterday II
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Yesterday reclines on the tenuous
breath of ancestral drums,
and summons protocols for the crowning
of tomorrow.
A martinet, yonder, celebrates the sepia
aura in the spine of the vista of the last days;
atavism unfetters the imprecation of hastening
Dawns.

And angels lengthen azure apparels,

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The Birth of Deluge
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

A fent in the huge, rain-blooded gourd
of heaven pukes Deluge and dirt
upon these lands...

Angry heavens spit violently
downwards, towards hidden collieries of
harlotry — accompanied by Deluge and
white rage — satins of gold-lined thrones
become whited sepulchral flags.

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Recent Crisis Poems
Message from the Cathedral
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Between the altar
and the belfry of the village cathedral,
an ancestral differenceꓽ age-long toll of the bell
and
historic quiet —
all to measure the heartbeat of man
and ascertain the valour in him.
It's wartime, we are sadly reminded!
The sounds of bombs come with both
Heart-cracking noise and necropolis-silence.

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New Crisis
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

There’s this phrenology we were taught when the
World still had her intestines intactꓽ when the skull mounds
Up on the forehead —the sinciput of grace —
It is a head of crisis.

Like the new moon, a New Crisis has risen above us.
Darkness mumbles loud words, of a swarm of
Ridiculous locusts, which has pillaged our fields,
Harming every single blade,
Runcinated and monstrous to the eyes

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The Outcome
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Calm.
Grinding gently the ingredients of patience.
The somnolent waves mourn.

There are no tunnels under the seas,
But vistas cut open through
Creeping lights foreshadowed by the
Debris of epochal wrecks.

Calm.

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Along the Line
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Snooze of peace reigned on a collage
of sacred impulse for serenity of shelter —
bower-girthed and soul-inundated —
but along the line, a stampede, peccant
and harlotic,
framed the sun.

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Yesterday II
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Yesterday reclines on the tenuous
breath of ancestral drums,
and summons protocols for the crowning
of tomorrow.
A martinet, yonder, celebrates the sepia
aura in the spine of the vista of the last days;
atavism unfetters the imprecation of hastening
Dawns.

And angels lengthen azure apparels,

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