| The seasons blend Spring and Summer In a shower of life from the trees The horrible flames rise towards the sky The street is burning with pedestrians A house filled with treasures opens its gate Twenty youths one white ask nothing But accuse All but one ignored. They're going to put another page there! And what will you write For myself i have nothing to say that you have not heard For there is nothing new under the sun But i would write love and courage For there may be one that had not heard Osita Nwankwo |
| African Indian Wind of Change A woman building a house for her children There may be no country suited to a poets persona searching for reason outside of these borders is an English trait/obsession The Americans seem less concerned even though we share the same grandparents Lying awake throughout the night Living in England I can't starve unless there's a revolution or a war I can't foresee a war in my lifetime unless Germany & France refuse Turkey entry to the EU and Britain wants to fight about it but I don't think they'd bother. We're on benefits we're childless we're sexless we're not anything we could have formed a band but we were to old you're supposed to say you're never too old we were too ill your supposed to say your never too ill in the time we've known each other we've both been in the funny bin we're able to get around but by the time we reach our destination we're withered or emotionally smashed in the fuel of common civilisation is not for the poor the artists that triumph are born among the rich Osita Nwankwo |
| Write a sonnet It could be 11 or 14 lines Compose a lyric put a seal upon it Add a line of beauty Add a line of make believe Create a sense of the divine Allow a moment of doubt Breathe life into its syllables Create wings on which it will fly Write a sonnet And put no count upon it Osita Nwankwo |
| Man Burning down at the wick set alight or simply set on fire me. No relationship that involves sex no intimate love words with a loved one a history of mental illness medication working to stay out of hospital painting on a budget in the smallest of spaces. Living where I paint walking everywhere buses don't go off the cigarettes and over weight a private Christian Black and Loathing Church ashamed of parts of my past coming to terms with my ego intimidated by the best with their hex living here wondering about there staying out of prison and off drugs staying close to a relation hoping for better. Osita Nwankwo www.osita.co.uk |
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