Lament Poems
The Night’s Body
by Talal Uddin
Today, the night’s body has become the Babylon.
It doesn’t have that fame—
Neither the harmonic song sung by
A singer, the work of a drummer,
Mandira’s tung tung
That came through ether from the song of Jassha,
Nor
The bubble-tumble of Nagan Babu
By drinking alcohol,
Fox’s hukka hua,
......
an orchard’s lament
by Rikske Kessner
Morning mist drapes each blossom
like a bride reluctant to wake.
Petals fall in silent confession—
memory’s hush in every drift.
Roots hold secrets of laughter and tears,
a debt of seasons owed to shadows.
Soon, steel will bite bark and bloom
and these ghosts will scatter on the wind.
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Lament for a Classmate
by Carl Halling
I knew you when you were a child,
I don’t recall you,
Although I tried,
Were you were sweet,
While I was wild,
The precious pet of the classroom kind,
An image of a smiling child,
I beheld your face,
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Colourful Lament
by Ghairo Daniels
COLOURFUL LAMENT
I combed cool waters of your
baby blue crystalline Jewel as you
waded waterfall waves washing
my stellar rainbow rays
Arching it melted into the warm
womb of transducing tangoing Earth
Her Violet Flame devoured us both
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How I wish you were here
by Phillip Nine-Mafunga
We could've droped some
But to deem us foolish
Aint cool a thought
For we've our one stop:conscience
Wherein we play no fantasy games
For ours is the house of the sun
Listen to our baseline,so thick an' cool
Don't dare sing along in off key
For we know who we follow
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The Night’s Body
by Talal Uddin
Today, the night’s body has become the Babylon.
It doesn’t have that fame—
Neither the harmonic song sung by
A singer, the work of a drummer,
Mandira’s tung tung
That came through ether from the song of Jassha,
Nor
The bubble-tumble of Nagan Babu
By drinking alcohol,
Fox’s hukka hua,
......
an orchard’s lament
by Rikske Kessner
Morning mist drapes each blossom
like a bride reluctant to wake.
Petals fall in silent confession—
memory’s hush in every drift.
Roots hold secrets of laughter and tears,
a debt of seasons owed to shadows.
Soon, steel will bite bark and bloom
and these ghosts will scatter on the wind.
......
Colourful Lament
by Ghairo Daniels
COLOURFUL LAMENT
I combed cool waters of your
baby blue crystalline Jewel as you
waded waterfall waves washing
my stellar rainbow rays
Arching it melted into the warm
womb of transducing tangoing Earth
Her Violet Flame devoured us both
......
Florence
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Florence has warm blood
and cowrie teeth that seldom clatter,
even in the chilled, fluttering dance of July rain.
She’s an element of Shiloh
in weeping quest of a promising Samuel,
and for this,
walks through long and clammy paths in July rain.
July, a month of sacred yams,
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While the village bleeds
by Phillip Nine-Mafunga
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Sounds of yesterday
Echoes of tomorrow
As we pass through the vast of today
Grains of sands blown down the unwritten annuls of history
A history yet memorized and internalized by generations
Those that suffer tribulations
Have rather found meaning in the passage of time
Time in which tears naturally dry up
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