Places Where No One Looks Twice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJKLM NOPFQRST UVPPW IXYZPY TA2B2C2D2 E2PT F2G2H2I2J2 MK2L2M2| In the land where fire once danced in drums | A |
| A path curls behind the cassava grove | B |
| No signposts mark it | C |
| Only the hush of old women s songs | D |
| Carried by the breath of yam smoke | E |
| - | |
| There lies a shrine beneath a mango tree | F |
| Stone by stone | G |
| It remembers more than the textbooks do | H |
| The ancestors' voices | I |
| Faint as rain on thatched roofs | J |
| Still murmur in the dust | K |
| But no one listens | L |
| No one looks twice | M |
| - | |
| The oil men came with maps | N |
| With hungry drills and foreign tongues | O |
| They saw only profit | P |
| Not prophecy | F |
| They paved over sacred soil | Q |
| Called it progress | R |
| And left the earth to bleed | S |
| Black tears into forgotten rivers | T |
| - | |
| A boy once sat by the poisoned creek | U |
| Carving meaning into a calabash | V |
| He asked why the gods were quiet | P |
| But the gods were not quiet | P |
| We had just stopped hearing them | W |
| - | |
| These are the places | I |
| A grandmother s clay pot cracked but clean | X |
| A fisherman s song in twilight | Y |
| A rebel s grave under a plantain leaf | Z |
| A language spoken in secret | P |
| So it won t die by daylight | Y |
| - | |
| Philosophers debate from high towers | T |
| But truth hides in goat paths | A2 |
| In footprints left at dawn | B2 |
| By barefoot girls who carry stories | C2 |
| In baskets on their heads | D2 |
| - | |
| The world passes by | E2 |
| Eyes wide shut | P |
| Blind to the fire in forgotten embers | T |
| - | |
| But if you look again | F2 |
| Really look | G2 |
| You ll see altars in every anthill | H2 |
| You ll hear sermons in silence | I2 |
| And know that power often wears no robe | J2 |
| - | |
| For it is in places where no one looks twice | M |
| That the soul of a people endures | K2 |
| Waiting not to be rescued | L2 |
| But remembered | M2 |
Gilbert Sordebabari
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