Akinloye Emmanuel Black Poems

  • 1.
    In an inky room,
    Blank in black sights,
    Captivity reigns in a a Nebuchadnezzar-like manner,
    Oozing around in low tunes and hurtful lyrics,
    ...
  • 2.
    Soaked in cold innocent bloods of 'foes and friends',
    Brazen rage of brutality and callousness,
    Sea of graves traversed theatre of war and military camps,
    Across a land with guns and 'gunners' eagerly anticipating black heads in Islamic chants,
    ...
Total 2 Black Poems by Akinloye Emmanuel

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Sometimes, to solace my sad heart, I say,
Though late it be, though lily-time be past,
Though all the summer skies be overcast,
Haply I will go down to her, some day,
And cast my rests of life before her feet,
That she may have her will of me, being so sweet
And none gainsay!

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