Ode To A Dancing Pen

By Brenda Eziafakaego Nwafor

Ode To A Dancing Pen is a collection of different poems inspired by different emotions, situations and happenstances; love, being chief. I love love and all its twists. It is my essence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brenda Eziafakaego Nwafor
• Release date: Sep 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463160824

Brenda Eziafakaego Nwafor

Brenda Eziafakaego NWAFOR loves and writes poetry. She is a member and the secretary of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Lagos Chapter.She loves to make bags and accessories with African fabrics. She hopes you love poetry more than you have ever loved it.

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ONE: BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS

Here again

I get to the finish line

The end which gradually will fade

Fade into a new beginning

A beginning with new hopes and aspirations

Which with time

Will diffuse into another end

My life

A cycle of endings and beginnings

TWO: THE PREACHER

No ear listens to my talk

No heart tries to understand

No brain to assimilate

No conscience to weigh options

From reason everyone takes a walk

Patience and love becomes but a strand

Ego and pride comes to mediate

Strife gains several promotions

I am an ancient preacher

I preach the old sermon

Of love and tolerance

Of empathy and humility

I am but a teacher

I call all elements to summon

I engage perseverance

I plead objectivity

I restate the old interrogation

Can several succeed except they agree?

THREE: HOUSEWIFE’S RANT

Go, go and cool your heat

In the Atlantic Ocean

Get fresh air on the Kilimanjaro

Get warmth down the valley

Bask in your insatiable aura

Go, go and grill your sausage

In the oven

Grab the papaya

Smack the rear

Stroke the edges

Go, go and return

Stagger back in your chauvinism

Bath me in the shower of your insult

Point to me with your left hand

You will meet me at home

Fly with Wendy to Dubai

Run with Mandy to Paris

With Shakirat, go to Katangua

Enjoy your conference in Linda’s wrap

Sow your wild oats

I am the one at home

I tend your wounds

I am the one people know

The one who suckled you and Junior

The one who has your life in her hands

Be macho

Stand like the tip

Of a didi elegbe kan weave

Cold water will calm you

Your name is Balogun

You beat your chest

Like King