Anthology of Poems

By Miss Destiny lhuoma Oparah

These works depict my unique style. Its a collection of poems on varied topics. It represents my experience and a reflection of studies that l undertook throughout my university years. Many of these works show contemporary mind-set and world view, even though some reflect the reasoning and sensibilities of years gone by.

Some secular poems among them speak about the weather, like Summer and Thunderstorm. Others talked about real-life issues, like Sickness and Pain, Birth Process, and Birthday, and the life of a working person, like Workaholics and Composed.

In this anthology of poems, you will find spiritual poems and others with spiritual undertones and morals, like Sage, Divinity, and Pray, to mention a few.

Indeed, this collection of my works and poems is instructive, educational, interesting, and can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Its fully embedded with poetic devices, especially the use of personification, which is my favourite device used, in a very peculiar form. I hope that you will enjoy this collection. Happy reading!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Mar 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514447260

Miss Destiny lhuoma Oparah

Miss Destiny lhuoma Oparah is a graduate of the prestigious University of Lagos , AKOKA , Nigeria., where she studied English Language education and graduated with a second class honours degree. She also studied at the University of Science and technology Portharcourt where she obtained a masters degree in educational administration. Here in the United Kingdom , Destiny lhuoma Oparah studied at the prestigious University of Cambridge where she gained a qualification to teach literacy and Esol to post sixteen students. She is a current student of the University of Plymouth, where she is studying Law(LLB).She is a teacher , a novelist , and prolific writer and the Managing Director of OptimaltrainingUK.

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Rev. date: 03/04/2016

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Contents

The Monthly Flow

Finer Than Bone China

Merry Heart

Ode To The Swan

Women

Motherhood

Oppression

School

The Fleeting Years

Love Yourself

My World, My Enclosure

The Simple Girl

The Sage

Friendship

Sweet Summer

I Fear Desperate People!

Coast To Coast

Gibberish!

Sickness!

The Communion

Transformed!

The Broken Dream

The Child!

Jealousy!

Pray!

Christmas Flames

Thunderstorm

The Outside

Once Upon A Lovely Day!

Pure Friendship

Sickness And Pain

Love Lives In The Mind

Intelligence

Ode To The African Woman 2

The African Woman

Ode To Swan

Ode To Africa

Ode To Okaro Soup

Contentment

The Female

Peace

Confused Mind

Passion

Cerebral Labour

Books

Workaholics

Dew

Slumber

Dreams

Pepper

The Fright Of Air Travel

Youth

Death!

The Pages Of Life!

Truth

Confidence

Hunger Pangs

Darkness

Lonely Hearts

Love Resides In The Eyes

Love

Enjoyment

Divinity

Enchanted!

Tumble And Jumble

Summer!

The Globe

Consecration

The Birthday!

Composed

My Alluring Fair Lady!

Oddity

The Ordeal

Patience!

Upset!

Disturbance!

A Surprise!

Fine Homes!

Honesty Personified

God Made Them All

The Airbus

Falsehood

Study!

THE MONTHLY FLOW

Red is the flag

which is hoisted every month

with moans and pains

it rushes like the stream

How can you stem this tide

it threatens to overflow

its banks

with white wool in time

The girls are lean

their colour pale

This rush of red

dries the bone.

it brings anaemia

if medicines are not given.

fruits in season, vegetables in tow alas

The girl child