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Sonnet: Stepping stones to dive
Patiently, I waited for dews
A million miles from you
The mentality saddens me
Legit jobs, now a mockery…
But that I do on stepping stones
Until I dive into deep blue sea
To become as fresh as fish.
Picking from the bottommost
Treasures of reward at its best
On your fast lane dubiousness
You mock my steps and dryness
Saying I never would quench a taste
But you will unendingly thrust
In the sea of oozing wealth.
©2019 https://vinzpoetry.wordpress.com
Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Dying on board
The needles and syringe
Has worked, from winter,
Through summer and spring…
…Terminal it is!
Repeating cycles
Just so to cheat death
“You got just few hours”;
Then said men in whites
Several stuffs
Puffed wide, through his brains
“Oh, is this the end”;
He said to himself.
He could feel curtains
Closing fast on him
Even when movies
Had only began
All his smiles then froze
Head over shoulder
He close his cold eyes
Slowly blinking twice.
Stranger in the states
While living his life
So he owed to death
His flesh on home soil
But the stress when gone
And cost to incur
Transporting his corpse
Would be hot as hell
So he then embarked
On a journey home
From great Atlanta
At least while he breaths
Delta flight took off
Cruising altitudes
Eight hours on the air
Three hours to touchdown
Friendly shadows came
Passing through his flesh
He could feel his leg
Kicking the buckets
Off jurisdiction
His greatest joy was;
Tragedy but brave
And just humanly.
©2019 https://vinzpoetry.wordpress.com
Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Nigeria: Frowns of chicks
In the farm, there are many preys
But we count the number of crates
Bountiful harvest; all we pray
Running fast from all the lichen,
And the butchers in the kitchen
The hatchlings of the fat chicken…
Prays to survive daily movements
Tailored by kettles, pans and pots
The authority is corrupt
Dispensing tears, hardship and fear
To be fair, if you make it here
I bet, you can make it anywhere.
©2019 https://vinzpoetry.wordpress.com
Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Sonnet: Entrusting death
Death, I know that you can sting
Poison my wine, I will drink
For if I begin to count
The knives, arrows and bullets
You have put into my chest
The ears that hear will go deaf
For eyes that saw still shed tears.
Death, I know that you can bite Between those claws and white teeth
I give you reasonable doubts
Not because, am scared of you
Nor because, am weak to fight
But, that stinging bees build hives
And ants that bite, still build hills.
©2019 https://vinzpoetry.wordpress.com
Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Sonnet: Twenty second April (22-04-19)
It all began reluctantly
My trap caught fish in an ocean
Love at first sight, definitely
Grew in words and in actions
All the questions I asked gently
“Yes, I will”; that was the portion
Walking the aisle; seriously?
Baking cakes for celebration
Who would have guessed accurately
That you will be my possession
Good for me, emotionally
I had this strong obsession
My heart purring; affectionately
Without you; it ceases to function.
©2019 https://vinzpoetry.wordpress.com
Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Sonnet: Blood on our land
Weren’t hearts made for love
To carry the red fluid
Of oxygen and the genes…
Not pumping rage and blood
There is blood on our land!!
Hearts have lost their office
And sense of right and wrong.
In modern age and time
Cold blood reigns supreme here
Sadly, it rains on all tiers
From the high power drunk,
To green-eyed local folks
Envious of another growth
Spilling blood on our land.
©2019 https://vinzpoetry.wordpress.com Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Sonnet: Message to LGBT community
Stop Lesbianism, stop gay, stop bisexuality
Humans are meant to be heterosexual
One in zero, not all these homosexualities
Mad men in nosocomial are shackled
Treated of their delirious diseases
Not psyched that they are normal.
Why not treat the hormonal imbalances.
Transgender, the stunts of science
Bestiality, the puppets of the demons
To what end, would these continue
Probably when, it becomes more than a culture
And the true sexuality of human nature
Is lost and forever forgotten in six bands..
Oh, please; stop backing the wrong horse.
©2019 https://vinzpoetry.wordpress.com
Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Sonnet: My first battle won
Against rattles
And obstacles
In glass bottles
The first battle
Outrightly won
When I was born
Is being black
Others may lack
Wrinkles do not
Penetrate nuts
In blackish lands
Time might hit hard
But fact is that
Blacks don’t crack.
©2019 https://vinzpoetry.wordpress.com
Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Haiku: Tribute to Don Williams
Playing without you,
Country songs, will not sound same
R.I.P. Williams.
©2019 https://vinzpoetry.wordpress.com
Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Sonnet: One reason gray dies
She gazed at her waning self and wrinkled fist
As she pulled the trigger; “fool, idiot;
Why take our life,” her conscience muttered..
Gray but no one could seem to understand
The aged shoes she wore and where she stood
Bleeding inside underneath life crown
The world library isn’t expected to even drown.
The sky was falling, over her purple roof
Haunting her dead ahead until she poof
Her eyes developed multiple shades of red
From all the tears, and the inner wounds
Knowing old illnesses had pains with no cure
She penned her last word down, raw and pure
Stating, she gave up, so her seeds can grow.
