The Eye of the Earth: PoemsA lyrical and panoramic body of poems from the prize-winning poet, informed by a revolutionary vision about the earth, our home. |
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Forest Echoes | 3 |
The Rocks Rose to Meet Me | 13 |
Let the Earths Pain Be Soothed | 27 |
Copyright | |
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Amoye anguish Let ayunre belly boil of anguish bricks and eggs brood carpet of darkling carries a boil clouds compost carpet Count your colours Coy mistress dawn distant Don this praying drum dust earthworm elephant grass eloquent Esidale Farmer-born peasant-bred fingers fire forest green guests hands harmattan harvest Harvestcall homecall Ikere Iroko wears ironwood Iyanfoworogi laying bricks leafy leapless legs Let it burst Let it rain let no tree liquid dance loomed Lynched the lakes machets Mauled the mountains mill misty mob breaking mouth Niyi Osundare noonward sun Ogbese Okeruku Olosunta spoke Oroole pawpaw pods rain today rains you wonder rainsongs ripening rocks rose rose to meet says that drought season sent the skies skies weeping Sometimes sky carries Slaughtered the seas slowly but surely Temporary basement termites throbbing toe-marks tread tubers Uncountable seeds wardrobe wears the crown weaverbird Wet and wild wind womb wonder who sent yams yawning