Two weeks ago mayhem was unleashed on xtians in some Northern states in Nigeria in the name of a cartoon published in a Danish newspaper. A lot of people that did this havoc hardly can read anything written in English.
How comes....?
Hell came down,
Fury matched on street corners
Taking spritely walk
across our land
Blood, blood, blood
flowed like river
across our land.
A water-mark,
a pencil drawing,
arouse a bowl
filled with tatoo of hatred
emptied spitefully on us
Ignorance: an orphan
let loose on streets
to stump on innocents.
What dirge for our dead...
Mayhem of hatred,
Mayhem with hateful insignia
I am sorry it is taking me so long to get to reading your writings, but this is great, thank you for sharing, thank you for allowing us to get a glimpse into your life
In Christs Love
Michelle~
A good message; Emeka. It seems that, throughout the world at any time, some people look for an excuse to incite violence and, as you put it, mayhem. Love and peace to you,
Emeka, I had forgotten that Nigeria was your home. the stanza beginning "a water-mark" is concise and image-rich. will pray for peace and restoration. take care, Dawn
Ed, it takes some understanding and level of intelligence to interprete a cartoon like the one causing all the trouble in Nigeria.
To me some people are out for some mischieve. God help us.
If they can see a cartoon, then there is no need to read, though I wonder how long people will use this cartoon as a reason to spread hate & create violence...Ed
This is a book of free verse poetry that addresses the seven main tests in life and offers some sensible solutions to passing those tests with minimal discomfort.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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In Christs Love
Michelle~
Regis
To me some people are out for some mischieve. God help us.
Emeka