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Sooner Than Soon, Sealed, Stamped And Signed

Very soon.
Soon. Very, very soon.
Restoration galore — sooner than soon.
Body, restored.
Blood, restored.
Balance, restored.
Wealth, restored.
Health, restored.
Wholeness, wholly sealed.
Surely, sooner than soon — sealed, stamped, signed, sent, seen and secured.



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Common Sense Should Have Known

The just-bereaved has a very busy traffic going on
Inside the brain.

Not on ground, but informed after others,
With no time to control the heavy-duty staccato traffic —
Besieged brain, battling moving time that can never wait.

The unbridled, unqualified informant broke protocol,
Bypassed without pass,
Denigrated, downplayed, and informed the world before the controller.

Without waiting to de

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A Saint Remains Stainless

Struggling to stain, smear a saint so dearly,
solely endears the saint —
so dearly to all.

A name in white robe,
too dear to smear,
too costly to deceive,
dear ones, in due time.

A saint remains stainless.




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Sweetening Solitude

In the grave?
The grave of a life lived alone?
It could be so solitary.
Surrounded by soliloquy.
So don't stress yourself into sour sleep, soliloquizing.
Find the sweetener that solves the solitude
And live lively, though lonely, in the grave of life.


https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sweetening-solitude/

Force fails .Always . Read ful version :
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Force fails .Always . Read ful version :
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Heavy grief needs heightened quiet.
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The Buffalo Wound

Vibrant brain trapped by accidental incident,
like buffalo wound on agile lion
to steal the lion's hunting show.
Agility lost. Mobility gone, with it.
It thinks in lightning speed.
But walks with the slowing speed of tortoise, the sage.

Wealthy upstairs with wealthy fire and questions.
Poor below with the shell weight it carries,
stealthily like still steel.
Very good to know.
Very hard to live with stealthy still steel.

Money cannot manage or bandage it.
Praise or pity or reprimand cannot lift it.
Rest or leave cannot heal it.
Only truth, empathic understanding, time,
and timely tidings can name it.

A mind with a wound still bleeds sound, steel wisdom,
worthy in weight, wealth and worth.
A wound with no mind just bleeds.
And the world watches both.

Because the heaviest poverty from wealthiest waste
is a bright head that no one lets stand,
but left stale to sour.

*The Richest Poverty*

Rich with money and upstairs?
Very good.

Not rich. With no upstairs?
It hurts.

But, very rich upstairs?
Very, very good.

Very rich in money,
With multi-mansions,
But poor upstairs?
Very, very bad.

Not rich in money.
No Kobo left.
And no upstairs too?
Very, very, very bad.
For self.
For society.

Because wealth without wisdom
Is the richest poverty.
And the richest poverty without wealth
Is hazardous.
A walking time and space ogbunigwe bomb

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Peel, bran, seed, stem... turned to proof the world leans on. Kindly read and comment

Waste To Worth — Worthily In Nature And Cell


In Maputo sun or Tsinghua light,
work in remote base, right here, travels past lab and night.
Not just read — but built upon,
A line of proof the world leans on.

Nature speaks, Cell stands, others clap — and none lend their page
To whispers that will not engage.
When they cite work done here, it means this:
Data from this remote end holds. The method is this.

Food waste streams — peel, bran, pod, rind, seed, stem, leaf —
based on biochem core, bioactivity profile, were turned
from "nothing more" to prospective many more.
Agri-food chemistry finds its claim, dancing,
Because the work here was duly signed, stamped
with a solid, stolid name,
sleeping soundly envisioning in a visioner-loaded, serene Umudike, Nigeria.

A citation in Nature isn't small —
It's the world saying: "We used it all.
We stood where the remote visioner chose to see, envisioned,
And took the next step, thanks to thee,
the visioner in remote serene base here."

So celebrate with the sleeping visioner. The waste chased here and there
Now feeds ideas, not left to waste there and here.
From Umudike, Nigeria to Maputo's shore,
Science in remote base echoes — and wants more.
Nature has spoken. Didn't sleep to envision for nothing, but for many more.

"Nature has spoken." Read as published in poemhunter:

Waste To Worth — by Tony Cemaluk Egbuonu
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/waste-to-worth-worthily-in-nature-and-cell/

Perceived Nuances And Idiosyncrasies Are Unique, Unchangeable, Don't Try To

Perceived nuances,
Like fingerprints on the soul,
No two hearts beat the same rhythm,
No two voices carry the same echo.

Idiosyncrasies —
The way she ties her wrapper twice, waiting to wage war.
The way he prays with eyes half-open, watchful to wedge war.
The way kola is broken before the first word.
Small things. Sacred things.
Things that make a name more than a name. A man more than a man. One more than one.

They are UNIQUE.
Carved by tradition, by time, by tutelage, by lineage, by blood, faith and convictions.
They are UNCHANGEABLE.
You cannot mount down a mountain to make it fit a valley.
You cannot corrupt a legacy to please a peddling critic, meddling.

So RELAX.
Don't try to copy.
Don't try to correct.
Don't try to force one river into another's bed.

Honor the nuance.
Respect the quirk.
For in those small, stubborn differences
Lives the truth of a person. One that becomes more than one.
Lives the truth of a family. Singular that is Plural.



#TonyCemaluk #CEMALUK

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Who are we fooling?

Adult? Sage? Honest? Sane?
Impartial? Incorruptible?
In character? Responsible?

Or were your deeds calculated, deliberate, deceitful?

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#Truth #Character #SelfReflection

PASSES*

It passes.
Every iron.
Every gold.


Either passed,
Is passing,
Or has to pass,
Past the Smiths foundry.

The Egypts of life,
The missionary journeys,
With wildernesses to cross.
Or prison chains to break.
Every escape escapade,
Before Malta.
The Schengen tours.

Whatever phase?
Any phase in.
Eschew phobia.
Abscond not, if you could.
Even if you could, don't.

Glory.
It is not defeatist.
Every phase:
Purposed,
Valuable experience.
Not seen now,
Soon to be seen.

In all:
Glory. Glory, give.

SELECTED WORKS BY ANTHONY CEMALUK ON NAIRALAND:

LEGACY & FAMILY:
1. THE CEMALUK LEGACY 1933 To 2026 [Culture]
2. Chief Ezemalukwuo Onwurah Nwoye Egbuonu: Bio Clarification [Culture]
3. Chief EzeMalukwuo Onwurah Nwoye Egbuonu (1933 - 1974) - Bio And Poem [Culture]

POETRY SERIES:
4. THE CEMALUK TRILOGY [Poems For Review] - 290 views
5. The Lion Reigns, Always [Poems For Review]
6. How Dare You? - A Poem About Betrayal, Masks, And Natural Law [Poems For Review] - 317 views
7. When We All Died [Poems For Review] - 105 views

ACADEMIC & CONCEPTS:
8. Word Coinage Originator: 4 D (four D) [Nairaland General]
9. Google AI Verdict On Tony Cemaluk Poems: An Excerpt [Literature]

CEMALUK – MANY MISSIONS
A Citation of Poet, Academic, and Overseer

1. THE MAN: CEMALUK OF OJOTO
Dr. Anthony Cemaluk C. Egbuonu is a son of Ojoto, Anambra State, Nigeria, and the present overseer of the Cemaluk (Cecilia and Malukwuo) family. His stewardship is rooted in legacy preservation and intergenerational duty.

Through documented works such as Chief Ezemalukwuo Onwurah Nwoye Egbuonu: Bio Clarification and THE CEMALUK LEGACY 1933 To 2026, Dr. Cemaluk has ensured that family history, titles, and values are archived for posterity. His leadership reflects the Igbo ideal of Ozo — authority exercised with responsibility.
"God protected, kept the crown, kept the name."

2. THE POET: TONY CEMALUK EGBUONU
As a poet, Tony Cemaluk Egbuonu writes with prophetic clarity, theological depth, and cultural weight. His body of work spans themes of kingship, betrayal, ancestry, covenant, and divine law.

Major Poetic Works & Series:
- THE CEMALUK TRILOGY – A foundational series exploring lineage, authority, and spiritual inheritance.
- The Lion Reigns, Always – A contemporary statement on enduring leadership and divine mandate.
- How Dare You? – A treatise on betrayal, masks, and natural law.
- When We All Died – An elegy on collective loss and national conscience.
- Muscle Of The Mind – A covenantal tribute to maternal sacrifice.
- Called Devil No Qualms – A theological incursion into good, evil, and accountability.

His style is marked by sparse diction, biblical cadence, and Igbo proverbial force:
"Roar still ruffles the woods. From afar, the lion bellows."
His poems circulate across PoemHunter, Nairaland Literature sections, and academic discourse, with individual pieces recording hundreds of views and engagements.

3. THE ACADEMIC: DR. ANTHONY CEMALUK C.
Dr. Cemaluk is an Associate Professor of Nutrition Biochemistry and Toxicology. He is a thoroughbred academic and mentor whose scholarship intersects natural science, literature, marketing, theology, culture, and leadership development.

Academic Visibility: Google Scholar | ResearchGate | ResearcherID

Key Intellectual Contributions:
- Word Coinage: Originator of "4D" as a conceptual framework.
- Cemaluk Relative Change Criterion – A novel statistical tool for determining significant observation in small sample sizes.
- Google AI Verdict On Tony Cemaluk Poems – An excerpt showing external academic engagement with his poetic corpus.

He is recognized for mentorship of scholars and professionals.
His teaching philosophy: "Let youth warm the field. Let toddlers learn as they play in the kingdom."

4. SYNTHESIS
Anthony Cemaluk embodies the convergence of tradition and intellect, of poetry and academic duty. He is not fragmented into roles — rather, the poet informs the academic, the academic serves the community and the family, and the overseer sanctifies both.

His work demonstrates that literature can be covenant, that scholarship can be service, and that leadership can be quiet but definitive.

"CEMALUK, The man of many parts holds the wheel. Steers to cheers of glory, continually."

THE LION REIGNS, ALWAYS
by Tony Cemaluk Egbuonu

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https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lion-reigns-always/

Note this well.

The lion is down,
not dead.
Sight still scans the distance, secures the plain, the terrain.
Body seated.
Roar still ruffles the woods.
Chains hold the legs.
The head holds the horizon compass.

Mind does not melt. It mints duty designs.
Hands are held, but handiwork flows.
It glows outward.
Disciples stand by, alert, duty-bound for the signal.

From afar, the lion bellows.

The devil designed plots to clip the paws,
to strip the crown.
Damped by the lion's God.
The lion's God kept the crown, kept the name.
Because the brain never broke, never choked.

Real experience does not rust —
just refined, renewed, regenerated, rewired.
Old hands still know the beat, the dance, the step, the tune.

Let youth warm the field.
Let cubs play in the kingdom.
The lion holds the wheel.
Steers to cheers of glory.

Legs failed.
Head was filled.
It rules continually.
Lion is lion.
Always.