Enugu – Borderless

Poetry by Joseph C. Ogbonna


SHE GOT MY HEART SADDENED 

It’s a rainy day and it’s wet!

There’s a deluge!

A deluge from my almond-shaped glands.

My piercing love notes to you are all drenched

From this flash flood.

It’s torrential and it moves in sweeping proportions.

Proportions that clear everything in sight that

Characterizes the landscape of my own world.

It first took an insidious dimension with your

Disapproving body language, before it deluged

My entire being with your lack of consent to

My persistent advances and pleas for access

To the Mecca of your halcyon heart.

Joseph C. Ogbonna is a widely published poet from Nigeria. Some of his works are published in magazines, journals, anthologies and in online blogs. He lives in Enugu, Nigeria.

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My Stetson’s Replica

MY STETSON'S REPLICA

Readily I have my hat made.
Skillfully, it has been crafted.
It’s bright and just won’t fade.
Two precious fabrics were grafted
To make this Stetson’s replica.

I wore it on a sunny day
To see my fondant Jessica.
It was a merry Saturday,
The best to exhibit it’s splendour.

En route to her house, it caused a stir,
As my regally crowned head raised it.
Every eye trailed me with a fixed stare.
There never was a hat ever seen
Like my Stetson of rare sheen.