Ifi Amadiume

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These are 9 new poems from one of my three manuscripts of unpublished poems. The manuscripts contain introduction essays on the meaning of and thoughts on the processes of poetry. Publish, translate and enter these poems for awards. These manuscripts need big publishers. Ifi Amadiume’s poems deal with people, animals, love, nature, struggle, the world and the universe. Ifi Amadiume’s poems deal with people, love, nature, struggle, the world and the universe. A short bio about the Author: Ifi Amadiume is an outstanding book-award scholar, poet, ethnographer and essayist. She has participated in several poetry readings and art festivals. Her poetry reflects her complex multi-dimensional experiences spanning three continents. She has published four books of poetry, three of which are award-winning books: Passion Waves London: Karnak House,1985, winner of a Commonwealth Poetry Prize nomination; Ecstasy Longman Nigeria,1995, winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors 1992 Cadbury Literary Award for Poetry; Circles of Love Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press,2006, winner of the 2006 Flora Nwapa Society Award, African Literature Association, USA, for outstanding achievement in African Religions and African Women and Gender Studies; and Voices Draped in Black Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press,2007. A University of London Ph.D., a Dartmouth College tenured full professor of Religion and African and African American Studies, Amadiume is an Honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth Chapter, and in May 2004 was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree by Dartmouth College. Email contact: ifi.amadiume@gmail.com)

The Best Poem Of Ifi Amadiume

Past The Despair

Isn't it another way to say,
A yearning for freedom,
Fresh far beyond,
Past the despair,
In silent ways,
To get away,
From dot com and a name,
A done-in bunkum silly-com.

To be in motion,
Is more like it,
Without realization,
When even every bit,
Every real space in reality,
Speaks to unimagined annoyances.
Annoyances in broken promises,
Annoyances in promises not kept,
Annoyances in Promises reversed.
To get away,
From dot com and a name.
A done-in bunkum silly-com.

Keeping in motion,
Is more like it for now.
It isn't to say,
Not thinking.
It is more to think in motion.
Words not sticking,
Not inside words,
Bad outside ones,
To be blown away,
By the moving hot air.
It isn't to clear the mind.
It is to get good thinking,
In moving fresh breeze.
To get away,
From dot com and a name,
A done-in bunkum silly-com.

The sky looks clear,
Even the green landscape
Seems healthy,
Leaves look comfortably full,
Even big-headed,
In their own
Busy rustling movement,
Like millions of waving fans,
Dancing approval,
Urging a getaway,
Forward movements,
In motion against a pulling back.
To arrest the decay of regression.
To get away,
From dot com and a name,
A done-in bunkum silly-com.

(Ifi Amadiume, London, August 10,2017)

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