Two Vultures Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD EEFF GHIJKGLDD MNOPQRASG| In the war and drought ravaged Sudan | A |
| A vulture stood watch | B |
| Over a dying child | C |
| Ravished by hunger and starvation | D |
| A little more than a human skeleton | D |
| - | |
| He lay dying | E |
| On the dirt gasping | E |
| Taking his last breath | F |
| In the throes of imminent death | F |
| - | |
| A man saw a good story | G |
| A front page news | H |
| With his powerful camera | I |
| The scene he captured | J |
| For the whole world | K |
| For posterity | G |
| He needed it | L |
| To show the imperative of action | D |
| To save the world's children | D |
| - | |
| He took the shot | M |
| And the next flight took | N |
| Away to his comfort zone | O |
| But to a humanist | P |
| There were two vultures | Q |
| At the scene one of them | R |
| Had a camera the man | A |
| Who made no efforts | S |
| To save dying humanity | G |
Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi
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Poet's note: Kevin Carter took a picture of a starving child at Ayod in Sudan in 1993 which was published by the New York Times. But readers criticised Carter for doing nothing to help the starving child. The poem examines this story in the light of the human angle and encourages people to help the needy.
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