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We are the Africans
By Konye Obaji Ori
Special to USAfricaonline.com
We are the Africans
We rose with the sun and fell with the rain,
Stood with the hills
And danced with the forest-
as we sing our song.
In the comfort of our huts and
thatch we sprung.
We are the Africans-
the paragons of nature-
Seemingly cursed by her grace;
Yet we live- blessed by the [...]
USAfricaPOETRY: THE RAINY SEASON
By Chris Chinwe Ulasi
Special to USAfricaonline.com
What’s on your mind,
these pelting rains,
borne of Nature’s
generous appetite,
whose wet soul
I would like to know?
“Will you drown my land
under her own teary mist?
Will August break come
sooner to our rescue?
What’s in it for you
if our harvest endures?
Torrential rain
pelts needless joy
from your leaking sky.
The sun soaks up
our misfortune, dry.
Your [...]
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4 poems for publication in Class
The Music in my Heart
My honey-coated tunes to your ears
Come not from the twisting of my tongue
Nor from the mere movement of my mouth
It is from the heart, my heart
Pumping all its fluids, issuing all its feelings
In celebration of our interlocking embrace
Your sight, the smiles melt me
I [...]
