Tag: Short story & Flash Fiction
Posted on May 28, 2020
by Ugo Nkwoala
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Posted on April 26, 2020
by Ugo Nkwoala
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I hold no gun or cannon,tho’ its pointed nozzleis deadly – more lethal.Its din echoing the human speechlays conquest tyrants n’ emperors,liberating captives n’ frozen minds.It challenges the authority of regimesn’ the ignorance of religion n’ tradition.I hold no gun or cannon,but a pen.… Continue Reading “I hold no gun ….”
Posted on April 23, 2020
by Ugo Nkwoala
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Long live the Page and People of the book!Good people they’re who make texts doctrinesof law and regulations, authors authority, supreme beings of the intellectual world they’re. I can’t imagine their giving up readin’ nor the rationality found in print’d pagesthan I can ideate lightin’a… Continue Reading “Long Live The Page”
Category: Short story & Flash FictionTags: books, freedom-of-speech, future-of-books, Nature, Love & Poetry, people-of-the-book, Reading, Short story & Flash Fiction, social-norms, Stephen King, World-Book-Day
Posted on February 15, 2020
by Ugo Nkwoala
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Posted on July 23, 2019
by Ugo Nkwoala
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I was his stepson, not his son and yet Though things were none too easy, I regret That I did little for the one who brought Me up. When, at the end, he sought To put off death’s approach, it was for me. So… Continue Reading “…A KINDLY DEED”
Category: Family, Sex & SexualityTags: action, Gratitude, grief, happiness, Inspiration, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, loyalty, regret, Short story & Flash Fiction
Posted on April 29, 2019
by Ugo Nkwoala
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O Muse! Fill me with love and care award me your insight without err lead me to your treasures, which I humbly sought that more songs I’d then be taught by sheddin’ your fair voice to this feeble song. Take me to places where… Continue Reading “Muse”
Posted on April 2, 2019
by Ugo Nkwoala
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Come! Fill my heart with glee, my lungs with Laughter’s mirth. Let’s be merry while we may Life’s a farthin’, our labour vain Man’s dust – a makin’ of clay. An hour’s span he has to live, till his grave opens to worms’ dine.… Continue Reading “Be Merry”
Category: Family, Sex & SexualityTags: Family, Sex & Sexuality, Humor, joy, laughter, life, passionate-living, Short story & Flash Fiction, wine, women
Posted on December 2, 2018
by Ugo Nkwoala
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My nib is incensed my fingers eloquent; they never sleep all they do is sweat. They shout what Autocracy calls forbidden values They limn what speech censors tag unapologetically dirty thoughts, since they must decipher at shut doors the secret codes of a treacherous… Continue Reading “My Nib”
Category: Short story & Flash FictionTags: empowerment, freedom-of-speech, Nature, Love & Poetry, nib, people-of-the-book, Poverty, Reading, self-discovery, self-expression, Short story & Flash Fiction
Posted on November 23, 2018
by Ugo Nkwoala
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I I recall your soft lips’ touch on mine its sweet tongue and pleasures given. This I couldn’t resist but relish still as I write this verse I can’t say – “I love you”. II Those fancy words can hardly tell what my half-ripe… Continue Reading “I Love You”
Category: Family, Sex & Sexuality, Nature, Love & PoetryTags: breakups, i-love-you, Love, Love & Poetry, love-affair, love-and-romance, lovers, memories, move-on, nature, passion, Short story & Flash Fiction, true-love, when-it-s-over