segun Johnson Ozique Poems

Happy I am you no longer would be hungry
Happy your sacks’ today are laden with gifts
Happy the road to home no longer is weary
Happy all that has come to you pleasantly a lift
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Ogbonna Amadi, a storm landed FSAS Sokoto the hurricane;
A pinch fleet-footed boogie lad of uncommonly indulgence;
Announcing in triumphant trumpet, his name; Dusty Rhode.
Successfully initiated at the Federal School of Arts and Science,
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I unbreakably meet a savoured in briefs
Looking to next meet in fond memory
Hardly ever seen the fairer in convene
And not for what it was, is and should be
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In dreary and despondent season
Of non-stop troubling drizzles
To desert ray harassment,
A soothing shade
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The pen on paper in flowing words
Saved me from whom I turned:
Shackled bones, turned skeleton
Staggering through dark corridors.
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The men; early a.m., smashed,
Mostly bent, dry-wet monsoon moulded
Their tools; knot of grey, yellow, swarthy;
Sinking, parts above water, mouldering,
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Surely, we've all heard and read; of
Many written of; first citizens with great deeds,
Starting with nothing to crafting something
Great men and women who made value of boldness
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As the world recline, eyes closing, feet up
Grows an enterprise couched to dehumanize being
Spinning sugary coated pills made to hack, devalue
Identity: Churning tales of wisdom in mould that
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