Flashes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGHI J EKEEEL BMNOEE P QRNESRNO E TUTV W XRRRRE B| in midst of vicissitudes | A |
| you say | B |
| let bygones be bygones | C |
| - | |
| how can this be | D |
| when one bygone has eloped | E |
| bagging along | F |
| his inadequacies | G |
| beyond boarders unknown | H |
| and the other lounged into a hole | I |
| - | |
| I digress | J |
| - | |
| and come to think of it | E |
| how similarities ring through | K |
| that it rained in Ojoto | E |
| after my grandmother was buried | E |
| after my father was interred | E |
| after my sister went to the grave | L |
| - | |
| and you may say | B |
| rain is | M |
| now a herald of cleansing | N |
| a revelation | O |
| that their souls have reached | E |
| beyond the clouded realm of eternity | E |
| - | |
| I move on | P |
| - | |
| these vicissitudes come to town | Q |
| where everything is in God's hands | R |
| co harbouring | N |
| in a makeshift shade | E |
| accommodating spent men | S |
| labourers | R |
| hungry and begging | N |
| in casting and binding session | O |
| - | |
| I shake my head | E |
| - | |
| next to them | T |
| a political signage on Trans Ekulu bridge | U |
| three big fat heads smirking at them | T |
| whose god is better | V |
| - | |
| I wish | W |
| - | |
| that the rain | X |
| that leveller of realities | R |
| can sweep these vicissitudes | R |
| down Udi hills to the tributaries | R |
| linking the river lines | R |
| to the Atlantic's high current | E |
| - | |
| they sail away | B |
Ifeanyichukwu Onwughalu
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 05/04/2022
Poet's note: I was in transit and my thought flashed through some things: political manipulations by politicians and leaders, the masses resorting to prayers for solutions; personal losses of loved ones and recollection of events at their burials. The mind of a poet or rather a writer is not in one place. This poem is a depiction of that typical state.
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