Refugee Poems

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Baobab
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Night’s lingering silhouette no longer
Shields my restless shadow, which clutches me
With gusto and haunting trauma.
My naked thorax seeks raffia clothing;
My ribs rebel against enchanting shivers from the spine of terror.
Adam’s greenish raiment I long for,
Among wet strings of strong bows fastened
To the groins of departed giants.
My feet, caked by frozen sand dunes,
Tramp gently and defiantly among wooded plains,

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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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Recent Refugee Poems
Baobab
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Night’s lingering silhouette no longer
Shields my restless shadow, which clutches me
With gusto and haunting trauma.
My naked thorax seeks raffia clothing;
My ribs rebel against enchanting shivers from the spine of terror.
Adam’s greenish raiment I long for,
Among wet strings of strong bows fastened
To the groins of departed giants.
My feet, caked by frozen sand dunes,
Tramp gently and defiantly among wooded plains,

......

Continue reading
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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