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Happy new year,wish I could take a vacation as long as yours.

harlos: Happy new year lucent.

happy new year Harlos.

sкчscrαρεr™:
Perfect! What more can I say? You're just good.

Thanks dear,happy new year!

horbeat: PASSION UNFULFILLED
My gossomar dreams are cast in glass
As I ford my night in dark
Fearful, lest my fantasies shatter.
My hopes are in flamed
Yet a fear.. lest some tempest put out my flame
I wait for a lonely yes
To turn on the spring of joy
In a culmination of my dream
In the ectasy of your embrace
It's all I wish
I have my moon over my sky
Where dense dark clouds also hover
I wish this moon is never overcast
A searing loneliness
A pacing heart
And not a moments peace
Make up a wonderful story of mine
I've only a restless yearning
For a passion unfulfilled.

Where the tempest be may your flame not.
One of the things Lit class taught me :be you and shine.

horbeat: Your poem has show the indelible ox of denial from being among the dynast. And equally explain the girl child right, it has contents but I think this message will be fully pass if not in poetry. Thou the poem follow a pattern with a weak poetry life, but all the same it shows exacerbation of denying female circumcition.
Nice one. Kudos to you..

Thanks bro,I know even when I was writing it looked more of a story to me. Happy new year!

emeka94: thanks a lot for the holiday greetings. Wish you both a blissful, love filled and blessed new year. Hope una pity d chicken on christmas day:-)

Popsy is better now. Thank God. The doctor said is d usual typhoid, malaria and hypertiatis. I just pray they are right in there diagnoses, I have heard sad stories about wrong diagnoses.
Am planning on updating d thread soon. I've Been preoccupied with chimamanda's Half of a yellow sun and Achebe's There was a country.

Amen,we bought frozen chicken lol Love half of a yellow sun,love the quote about river Niger,Mungo Park and grandfathers. Lol so true if u ask me. Happy new year in advance.

Later...

Clemzy
Hope it makes the mark.

The others still in process.

Thanks for the ideas.
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Drumming fills the air
Dance steps I can hear
The beads around my waist delights me
It would soon be my turn
After all the hardwork
I had put into learning this dance
I deserve all the applause I get
The king smiled at me
The smile was only for me
My heart soar
Why wouldnt it? Am to be his bride
All was ready till the elders coughed and asked
Has she been circumcised?


My smile turned sour
Everyone knew my people does not circumcise their children
Why had they bought it up?
I was told the only way I could get married was to be circumcised.


Tears filled my eyes
Was fate to repeat itself
My elder sister had gotten married
Without being circumcised
During child birth she found it
difficult to give birth
It was said it was because
She wasn't circumcised
That she lost her baby


Because of Fear and Love
She went ahead to do it
All pleas and warning
She threw away


It was successful
They said,she was now a woman
I wasn't allowed to see her
And when I did
It was to watch as they buried her


She did it late
If she had done it earlier
This would never had happened
The old women said and agreed
Refusing to admit to themselves
The truth which stares them in the face


What would you do if you were in my shoes?
A proposal from a King;
A man who loves me

Who knows, when am Queen
I might change the way things are
But am I willingly to take the risk?

Life and Death all in the flash of a blade

You study what?

horbeat: You are doing a great job here Ashley. I doff my hat for you.

Its all God. Bowing mode activated. Thank you.

horbeat: You are doing a great job here Ashley. I doff my hat for you.

Its all God. Bowing mode activated. Thank you.

Clemzy16: Well, I'd love to see a poem about pregnancy, circumcision, united nation (country), tribalism, travelling, sickness, death, success, disability (physically challenged), introverts, marriage, education, pride, etc..

Noted boss.

Nice one,might write something with that title.

Kslib: Hahahaha!! This guy is already scared...
Ok have you read "THE DARK HIDDEN SECRET BEHIND GARR!"..?

lol nice one can't stop laughing but seriously is there really a book with that title?

Writer's block

I know am meant to update but the truth be told am just there.
Between Writing a novella,researching for ideas,and actually pen'ing' them down it takes alot of time and effort.

Lets not talk about house chores,going to the market,running errands,visiting relations etc

I give kudos to all writers out there,e no easy o,my thanks to woju who is helping me not to make this thread dull and for everyone who have in a way commented,criticised,updated poems,they made me Stronger and better God bless.


Harlos have been missing thou,I guess its his fone again.
Next year,may the Lord grant me Wisdom and knowledge to continue,you will be in for a surprise.

Please do drop ideas about anything you will love and want to see in a poem,make your own poems post them.Rome wasn't built in a day who knows the next Soyinka might be you.

Happy new year in advance... :*

I dont know what to say lol,marvelous,unbelievable,wow
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Never thought of how a mad man thinks,well in his case he wasn't really mad.

You describe things with a finesse that leaves me guessing to the end.

I laughed when I heard they needed a virgin to appease the gods,I was like oya all virgins into the forest to hide.

More ink to you pen,more MB to your fone/device,more wisdom and knowledge from God.

Am ready and prepared to hear more from the land in the North where the skies are black and the seas dry-The Land of Ama.

Following...

It wasn't a dream,the pinch was that painful.
Are you trying to draw blood? Dont its forbidden here,if your blood should mistaken drop you will be used as a sacrifice.

Akande swallowed his fear noisily.
Come lets go they are waiting for us

Who are they? Akande asked
The elders,the council members you know them.

I dont he replied,you do the child--like creature answered your grandfather told you about them.

By the way dont stare too much at the gods they dont like it. Come follow me they are waiting.

Its been a while hope ur dad is ok and all is well? Happy holidays.

Am not really reading like that,you know festive period and been busy but I recently got a book gift- Mary Mary : be you.

Wonderful if you ask me,more of an inspirational/journal book

Am also reading Make Yourself A Master of Short Story Writing by Richard Macmillan.

Yes yes am planning to write a novella but with the rate ideas come it might end up being a novel either way I need the knowledge.

rhyming,u rap or sing?

weldone.

More ink to your pen.

Happy holidays everyone,hope you all had fun? Being busy. Nice one Woju.