You wake up one day and you stop worrying…..about everything and everyone. Things you can’t control? The crappy stuff from other people? Opinions and judgments that you didn’t ask for? You look at life and say Fu*k it! I’m just going to LIVE. Period! My way. Period! Do me. Period! No explanations. Period!
[Culled from the Facebook Page of Richard ALI]
Editorial Note: A Summing Up By Richard ALI
[ANA Review 2015 will be published on November 13]
Writing this Editorial is a historic undertaking for me, beyond the mere pleasure of it. It commemorates the anniversary of the Association of Nigerian Authors convention at Abuja, four years ago, when I was elected Publicity Secretary [North]. In the last four years, I have crossed this country—from Birnin Kebbi to Port Harcourt to Jos—in the service of Nigerian writing. I have also had my proudly Nigerian passport stamped at Nairobi, Entebbe, Kigali, Paris, Frankfurt and elsewhere in this same service, for which I dedicated my travels official and unofficial.
16. Feast
Drink of my nectar
Thundering sighs tease my thighs
Open me up. Feast!
17. Friends
A harmless button
A line in guileless wonder
A new beginning.
18. Hugs and Kisses
Gift me with a hug
Your face in my neck; inhale
My lips on bare chest.
19. Fusion
Let’s be crazy now
Soft skin to hard, hot to cold
Passion as our muse
20.Dance of passion
Darling, dare to dance?
Hypnotize me in deep trance
Pierce me with you lance.
#21. Kiss Me
My face in your hands
A quiver full of kisses
Tongue to tongue.
#22. What if?
What if you exist?
A rhetorical question.
And now, here you are!
#23. In Exhalation…
I inhale your words
And exhale epiphanies
Poetry’s oxygen.
#24. Via Dolorosa
The way of the cross
I am Veronica’s heart
Imprint your face here.
#25. Awakened
For decades I slept
They tried to bring me to life
You called my soul’s name.
#26. Lost and Found
This is the story
Of a lost pilgrim of love
Who found her way.
#27. Star-crossed
We may never meet
Our stars may never collide
And yet we shone bright.
#28. Knock; Knock
Reality knocks
Do not answer her door yet
Hold me for a while.
#29. Dancing with gods
They will remember
That in the life of my days
I danced with a god.
#30. No Walls
You taught me this truth:
God is not in walled spaces
No walls. No locks. Here.
(C) Juliet Kego Ume-Onyido
“See us now, dem say we go fall but now we’re standing tall. See us now, dem say we no go rise, but now we don dey fly. I BELIEVE, we can do better….”
JJC, thanks a lot for this song and prayer. Can I just say, Kate Henshaw absolutely nailed her part. And I want her colourful dress…divinely beautiful! 🙂
#UBUNTU I’ve had this song on replay all day.
“Hello, it’s me, I was wondering if after all these years you’d like to meet…”
In my books, all singer-songwriters are also poets! 🙂 Enjoy some awesome music from Adele.
Floetry by JulietKego: BURIAL (A Dirge for Naija)
(C) Juliet ‘Kego Ume-Onyido
New Music by the phenomenal ASA: The One That Never Comes. Beautiful. Enjoy!
Floetry by JulietKego: Walking with Angels
Dusk looms,
I bear the weight
of the wait;
I seek an answer,
one sign from thee;
Should I continue to share
the WORD that set captives free?
So easy to misconstrue
this message of love,
so tempting to discard,
this light from above.
I will step out tonight
and walk in faith.
Lead and guide me
for your own namesake.
It is cold and I am lost
in the warmth of night-walking;
All ‘ s quiet, nary a sound, no talking
Just humming
along
to the sound of my soul’s
silent strumming;
Hips swaying to the melody
of an internal, eternal song;
The cool breeze’ s blowing,
these limbs are showing
no signs of slowing.
I look up at the stranger across,
with a heart set in a deep frown.
Tired and weighed down,
also asking for a sign.
Confused at my flashing smile,
I see the unasked questions
and so I nod and answer
wordlessly:
‘I am walking the way,
the way of the cross.
Come walk with me,
let’s walk the lone road
but not alone…. ‘
I witness the moment
awareness dawns and
surrender occurs.
The stranger moves
on and joyfully skips along,
the path clearer now,
no longer dark and long.
Suffering ends, in comes the signs:
healings and cures.
I look up at trinity’s light,
seeking a signal:
should I go on,
should I prepare or
should I simply stop?
I go on and behold Samuel,
sitting by an *Angel’s side.
I sought a sign and was blessed
with three from thee!
And so now, I walk on,
doubts gone and shackle-free!
I watch my fear disintegrate
as I inhale your gift of crisp air.
Indeed, we all walk the lone road
but NEVER alone!
By love are we bound
and in this love are our
buried miracles found😀
(C) Juliet ‘Kego Ume-Onyido
Juliet 'Kego's World of Floetry; Explore! Experience! Enjoy! 