okoye charles Poems

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1.
A Walk Through The Cemetry

Whose homes are these, they never say
Both big and small, here they all lay
Among the gnawing rodent and the hungry tick
Ticking while the lonesome time dawdles away
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2.
My Emotions Betray Me

Each time at night
When I lay down and darkness beclouds my sight
Before I fade to the land of dreams,
My emotions betray me.
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3.
Surreal

On a Night dark and lonely
Possessed by fierce demons only,
Appeared a gem on heavens door.
So I saw and stopped, and stopped and saw;
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4.
A Picture

The moon rises in a darkened scene
In circle of grey, in black and white
A melancholic skies, the eyes do capture
A haunted portrait hanging on the walls of the heart.
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5.
Love Is Not Like The Mother's Womb

Love is not like the mother's womb,
where we dwell awhile and in peace sleep,
only to depart at the ninth moon.
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6.
The Day Is Too Short But So Is The Night

They are not long, the dark hours of the night,
Red fire once blue will smoke against the sun;
Slow and steady is the advent of light.
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7.
And In Death All Shall Be Made Equal

And in Death all shall be made equal.
Great men powers they all shall be lost,
Like a grain of sand on seashore.
When their breathe are at last and their last breathe drawn,
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8.
The Pilgrim's Song

I call my love from the conclaves of the bird.
Hear me maid! Hear me maiden! !
Hear me calling, calling out to you.
The voice in the wind, in the silence, in the wilderness;
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9.
Lines Written In Heartbreak

Please Dear Ebony,
Answer me these questions, I pray;

Do you miss me a little; lying on the shores of your heart,
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10.
So Sweet In Spring It Sounds

The music of the wind fills me with glee;
So soronous, so sweet in spring it sounds.
Sober the feeling which now beguiles me.
Still as stone, while my soul goes round and round
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