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Posted on February 23, 2021 by Ugo Nkwoala
IDear Irony, “Tell me, my goddess.”What numbers have you laid sway?Is it the Wise – who derides Folly?Or the ridiculed who derides his mocker –“In all his insight and contemplative devote he isa maverick proclaiming without any result his knowinglike a parched lost vagabond… Continue Reading “Dear Irony”
Category: Nature, Love & Poetry, Politics & Social normsTags: ambition, double-standards, ethics, failure, governments, horror, Humor, individualism, irony, law, life, Loneliness, mankind, morality, Nationalism, nations, optimism, sarcasm, selfishness, war, wit
Posted on January 4, 2021 by Ugo Nkwoala
O for wisdom, not possessed,to understand the whims of man –to analyze his mind and heartand then try to control his hand. O for wisdom, not possessed,to cleanse this creature’s thoughts of hate –to make of him a foe of warbefore he makes that… Continue Reading “A Clergyman’s Prayer”
Category: Nature, Love & Poetry, Politics & Social normsTags: a-clergymans-prayer, faith, goodness-of-heart, Humanity, Inspiration, mankind, prayer, wisdom
Posted on September 16, 2020 by Ugo Nkwoala
Man, Man, oh Man,Earth breeds no feebler beast than theeStrange how your beauty has gone forfeitYour world deaf to hope, deaf to its deathDestitute of honor, deprived of honestyGreed gags you down to the deepWorry queries many but few answersMan, man, oh man has… Continue Reading “Man, Man, Oh Man”
Posted on July 26, 2020 by Ugo Nkwoala
Category: Family, Sex & Sexuality, Nature, Love & Poetry, Politics & Social normsTags: cruelty, evil, human-nature, Humanity, man, mankind, self-awareness, selfishness, war
I recall you told mewhen we talked over the air,you would come to see me like a VIP.At Nekede, I’ve with fanfarebeen planning what to show you:an umbrella tree, a bloom here,a crooked path there; yonder a groveclose to it a wellspring, on this side a slopeon that a stream glare.Indeed, madam, I know nothingso […]
IDear Irony, “Tell me, my goddess.”What numbers have you laid sway?Is it the Wise – who derides Folly?Or the ridiculed who derides his mocker –“In all his insight and contemplative devote he isa maverick proclaiming without any result his knowinglike a parched lost vagabond in Saharathe thirst for knowledge had led him to drinkfrom the […]