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teardrops from my pen

each fragment that gathers to be unleashed
from the sharpened base of my pen
is a plaintive secretion of woeful laments
that splatters as ink all over the leaf

the heart is prone to a fatal mis-chance
bound to occur as a precursor to lowliness
then when the temperament swoops to the sand
it is there beneath that my pen seeks to mourn

and the true reason is rather unknown
just that the gruesome price of mortalitry
heavy upon the status of a sombre eye
is to purge itself to extreme emmancipation

thus i give all the liquid to be given
in the bid for its comforting,and fortitude
an ink shedding grief is never wasted
as it fuses with a page pregnant with pain
— emeka ozurumba, Jun 19, 2009

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Region, Country: Nigeria , abuja

Favorite Poets: christopher okigbo, wole soyinka, gabriel okara , odiah ofeimun- john keats, p.b shelley

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Cloudthings

Cloudthings

16 years 11 months ago

went back to pick out some of exquisite lines & the last one bin

Wow, well that one has blown me away... excellent write & I would not change a thing (except I must look up sheeding, or was it a typo for shedding?). I soooo love your language (she says as eloquently as a hippo), I am just reeling a little still, remembering to breath... Now I want to giggle with the wonder of this, I just LOVE it!!!! I went back to pick out some of exquisite lines & the last one binds itself to me & seduces me... but only because it is the last my eyes have touched, since when I lifted them to further peruse, (resistant as they were desiring to linger) I found again the fountain of wonderful verbiage & I could only splash about & revel!!!! Magnificent... worth well more than 5 stars but there you go. Bravo Joyfully~ Anni ~~~ "Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond o
chumfin

chumfin

16 years 11 months ago

you are good

i read you poem and i felt great reading such a wonderful piece. its really nice to know a brother is in the house from nigeria . am proud of your out put do more chumfin
Janice Pearce

Janice Pearce

16 years 11 months ago

teardrops from my pen

emeka, this was very good, you have a way with words did you mean 'mortality'[line 10] I enjoyed this one from you~ _____________________________________________________ Income-tax forms should be more realistic by allowing the taxpayer to list "Uncle Sam" as a dependent Anonymous