– Spilling everyday experiences with words –
Posted on August 23, 2020 by Ugo Nkwoala
He’s mad,if a man is after moneylike a fugitive on the run.He’s a capitalistif he keeps itby whatever means necessary –ruining anyone solely for profit. He’s a playboyif he spends itwithout a careon booze n’ boobs.A never-do-wellif he doesn’t get itat the dint of… Continue Reading “Money is Only Paper”
Category: Nature, Love & Poetry, Politics & Social normsTags: Capitalism, character, conscience, Delusion, ethics, God, Greed, happiness, human-desire, Humanity, money, morality, pleasure, Poverty, principle, Proverbs 10:22, responsibility, society, Wealth
Posted on August 18, 2020 by Ugo Nkwoala
We are no robot –powerless, remote-controlledyet few behave differently;Blame is but a human attributeour Achilles heel, our cancer.‘The devil made me do it.’you accuse the fallen angle –still yet an addict loves his addiction.Some say he’s a mystical thing –there is more to himthan… Continue Reading “Blame”
Category: Nature, Love & Poetry, Politics & Social normsTags: Accusation, addiction, bias, blame, confusion, crime, free-will, judgment, Lucifer, redemption, responsibility, scapegoating, shame, social-norms, society, unconscious-mind, victim
Posted on July 24, 2020 by Ugo Nkwoala
1A freshman – his parents willed so,An opportunity they longed for but ne’er had.Quest for a degree – a habit of our society,A serious-minded boy he was –His mother’s joy, his father’s insurance policy;Four years was the planned tenure at the citadel. 2“Bring pennants… Continue Reading “Frat”
Posted on July 8, 2020 by Ugo Nkwoala
Vultures don’t feast on the caravans of the affluentFlies and worms banquet pleasurablyOn the carcasses of the vulnerable,War is for the poor.Guns and bullets prove their mightOn the harmless bodies of the poorMass graves willing to embrace their bodiesWar is for the poorWar does… Continue Reading “War is for the Poor”
Category: Nature, Love & Poetry, Politics & Social normsTags: Democracy, diplomacy, fascism, fighting, Humanity, liberty, life-lessons, loss, Politics, Poverty, society, war
Posted on July 3, 2020 by Ugo Nkwoala
1.Prostrate here in humble grief, I lieIn this foul-smelling and awful cubicle.What with me do you want, O Justice?Ain’t your vows to ruin my innocence? 2.My castle of confine! My dwelling! My cell!Long enough have I known your hermitageYour stonewalls of miseries to me… Continue Reading “Humble Grief”
Posted on May 23, 2020 by Ugo Nkwoala
Category: Family, Sex & Sexuality, Politics & Social normsTags: equality, feminism, Girl-child, male-privilege, rape-culture, society, stereotypes
Posted on October 13, 2019 by Ugo Nkwoala
A toast! To Tope, she sells her maw to bring in rents, her beauty is her freehold – a price for just a fee. An errant daughter we may call her devoid of virtue, loose, a slut, asawo, unknown to us she is our… Continue Reading “A TOAST”
Posted on May 27, 2019 by Ugo Nkwoala
Society: Everyone’s beautiful Society: Don’t eat though, you don’t want to get fat Society: You don’t eat? Anorexic freak! Society: You’re a size 4? You’re supposed to be a size 0! Society: You’re an A cup? What are you 8? Society: You’re a C… Continue Reading “Society”
Posted on December 20, 2018 by Ugo Nkwoala
(Inspired by Revelation 21:3, 4) There… Lovers will only know bliss None would say “l love you” When they know these words untrue or vain. There… No statesman or politician will grace a podium Neither will we wait on their promises Like dawn… Continue Reading “Orange County”
Category: Interpretation & ReviewTags: activism, enemies, fighting-wars, humanism, Jehovah-God, John Lennon, Love, mahatma-gandhi, materialism, new-earth, no-more-death, peace, philosophy, Politics, Revelation 21:3, society
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 […]