Exile Poems

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The Refugee Never Lied
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Burning fresco of a new-image rainbow
has glint and farewell lines for
departing birds...

The refugee pledges oaths
against lies towards the arch of a
gleaned pathway

The Way-between links Sodom
with by-way museums of salt in

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The Banishment of the Poet
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Alien interpreters with long, grey beards
predicted the astonishments of the heavens.
Swallows migrate southwards
to the trial precincts of committed
visionaries – they swore dinosaurs
were here once.
A star shoots the length of
night sky in one long-tailed, silent trumpet of message.
Within eons of a blazing, returning
comet and epochs of swollen annihilations,

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Silence of the Rocks
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Sweltering clouds above are in yoga
Below them, crags — large-hearted and
Deep-seated, with striated bowels —
Faint from the hostile shafts of sunlight.
Iguanas pray fervently through fents
Hewed by dreaded times;
So are south-oriented ivies — straggling
Idly by noon, they seek eloquence of
Humming-birds on rock-ruptured
Sequence of dalliances...

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The Eye of an Exile
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

The eye of an exile,
a kaleidoscope of piercy range,
sees frontiers of distant lands

The blue rim of the horizon
stretches beyond its beginning,
haunting spectres of banishments.

The eye of the exile
reads the blooded refrains of

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Recent Exile Poems
The Refugee Never Lied
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Burning fresco of a new-image rainbow
has glint and farewell lines for
departing birds...

The refugee pledges oaths
against lies towards the arch of a
gleaned pathway

The Way-between links Sodom
with by-way museums of salt in

......

Continue reading
The Eye of an Exile
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

The eye of an exile,
a kaleidoscope of piercy range,
sees frontiers of distant lands

The blue rim of the horizon
stretches beyond its beginning,
haunting spectres of banishments.

The eye of the exile
reads the blooded refrains of

......

Continue reading
The Banishment of the Poet
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Alien interpreters with long, grey beards
predicted the astonishments of the heavens.
Swallows migrate southwards
to the trial precincts of committed
visionaries – they swore dinosaurs
were here once.
A star shoots the length of
night sky in one long-tailed, silent trumpet of message.
Within eons of a blazing, returning
comet and epochs of swollen annihilations,

......

Continue reading
Silence of the Rocks
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Sweltering clouds above are in yoga
Below them, crags — large-hearted and
Deep-seated, with striated bowels —
Faint from the hostile shafts of sunlight.
Iguanas pray fervently through fents
Hewed by dreaded times;
So are south-oriented ivies — straggling
Idly by noon, they seek eloquence of
Humming-birds on rock-ruptured
Sequence of dalliances...

......

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