Orike Didi

Orike Didi Poems

the triangle-
canons;
clowns
and all
...

and
preachermen
politicians
prostitutes,
...

Let it be today
That I am one with the trees.

I commune with the earth, rooted
...

Like roots we dug deep, like roots
We dug into the depth of her soul.
Her flesh had quaked with fever in a long drawn battle with herbs,
Her stride slowed like the coming pain of her children,
...

I don’t stand out famous
Like Mandela’s cell
Or Soyinka’s cloud head
Or obj’s false faces.
...

I come with my verses,
I come with my debts.
Accept me like the earth does the sea
Not minding her depths.
...

I shivered
and stopped
to see where 24 bullets ripped through
the heart of love,
...

Eventually, I speak for
the limping
and the dead
for I, dead too
...

I shall dip my tongue in the sea
and wave farewell to freedom;
it is not far from mile stone-cold.
...

We watch the waters go past
Distilled by waves
And dance to an unknown song
From the constellations-
...

We are all bugs
Running around the globe
With words as weapons.
...

I sit at an angle
At the table head
To watch children of men.
...

With all powers
Bestowed on me
I make bold to say that;
‘I, the poet
...

Not all laughter
Comes in times of joy;
Some come in moments of pain.
...

I am another Ken
standing, short like the Eiffel Tower
wanting to spew my body fluids
on the faces at the Ecole Militaire
...

I pity those who struggle
with words
and the words end up killing them;
what shall we do at their funeral?
...

Above sea bed, cold
city of tunnels
where short and long coaches live
a life of their own.
...

I walked cloud-headed
Into the Hall of Shame
To lay a wreath of thorns
On the casket of a dead soldier.
...

Mini-Iji II

I was sitting here when the river met me
Stretching its wide arms to embrace me,
...

As darkness begins to illuminate light
They begin to run in concentric circles
Of lies and strange debates-
Parliaments of vileness
...

Orike Didi Biography

Orike Ben Didi, PhD was born in Ogbogu Town in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. He is a realist poet and writes more from the heart. His imagery and diction are taken from elements of his African world.)

The Best Poem Of Orike Didi

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the triangle-
canons;
clowns
and all
on roll call,
the fourth angle
of the triangle-
the poet
and poetry,
a silent shout across ranges
or a regenerative helix?

Orike Didi Comments

Orike Didi 27 December 2007

The poems are incisive and the imagery deep. It is equally political.

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