We have come to the 'feast'
At jungle, to dance to tunes
Of music of our time, and now,
Leaving the arena for others,
...
Hear!
The Wailing voices
Of bereaved
sob sorrowfully for their loss.
...
What can do?
Innocent Guttersnipe. Who
For times knows sore
constantly on the verge of tease.
...
Ndubisi Anslem Otolokpo was born on the 8th of july 1989 into the family of Mr $ Mrs Felix.A.Otolokpo of both deltan and from Isheagu in aniocha south L.G.A of delta state.He attended st john's cmprehensive primery school asaba, delta state and asagba mixed secondary school asaba, delta state. and presently a student of the department of english and literary studies delta state university abraka.)
Onishe
ONISHE
In the mystic silence
Of the world, cleans
By sweet-scented
Folds of the night
Spreading it’s power over the sky
I watch your ripple smile
Smitten by your bare beauty
Which pants my heart.
Mother “Onishe”
I salute your immortal soul
In you all is in
And of divination stuff
At your sacred grove
Pleas for suckle of your sagging breast
Onishe
Here I am
At your majestic presence with joy,
Seeing the puff of your breath
Blooming across your heart.
I did not see but
Stench blood, kola nut native chalks,
At the fore-walls of your shrine
And the cold glitter of your
pure – hearted lover
Preening its beauty through you
Onishe!
Stretch out your balsam hands
And touch my heart, let me
Feel the pleasant sense of stars,
Of the dark autum night
Onishe!
Tell me the secret of
Your uneven head, the fetter of ogbono
Leaves clogging Round you, the gentle
Lyrical pulse which
Falls pleasantly upon your bosom.
Ndubsis A. Otolokpo