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Sonnet: Substance of black
All eyes envy
Pretty ebony
This is greater
Than a gender
It cut across,
Nations just trust
Whether pure breed
Or the hybrids
Sweet are the tales,
Hammering nails
Look at my kin
Same as my skin
Not just ravens,
Black is haven.
©2019 https://vinzpoetry.wordpress.com
Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Blackish
Hair short, no curls
Harder than burls.
Nothing on bunk,
Hence, sacks may leak
Yet, blacks stays strong
Through rights and wrongs.
Dogs may bark; but,
Color change not.
Hardship may try
Devil may cry
Baste of the past
Blackish still last.
Even at nights
Shadows come out
In such darkness
Tranquil relax.
Guess God created
Tastebuds to taste
Sweet chocolates
Hope you relate.
©2019 http://Vinzpoetry.wordpress.com
Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Edit the color pictures
Rage, anger, and war;
Why do we make out
Fire from harmless smoke?
Why do we throw fists
When we will later
Hug, hold hands in feast?
Before blends of wines
Yes we heard it all
The torture and pains
Whether black or white
I am not racist
Put that on hash tags.
Call me what I am
Raw; not what I am
To bullets that harms
I do not expect
Exaggerating
Ants for elephant.
But, please desist from
Putting me under
Your ill expression
When with disclaimers
You can say; “Nigga”
And still go scot free…
On life screen, everyone
Is but a racist,
So tune the pictures
To black and white views
For these cameras
Has had enough blood.
©2018 https://vinzpoetry.wordpress.com
Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Native Fly: City of lost kings and queens
Stabbed and betrayed by my kinsmen
Who sold me for mirrors, socks, shoes
And gun powders.
I engraved throne; oh my sweet home,
In the innermost part of my crest
With inks of gold.
I built their poles, streets and cities..
Till Foriegn lands overtime became
A paradise.
Pains I suffered, I sweat it out,
Till it turned rains, I rose from dust
Into mountains.
Patriotism, I visited home,
To rebuild my native land
Better than theirs…
But I was tossed not for old rocks
But unfitness to remember
My sweet culture.
The more I try to blend and fit
More I cry, and fall on my feet
Pack bags and leave.
Race on my face; where am I from
I try so hard, yet rejected
Too many times
Now my homeland is not my town
Neither the place I can be found;
….Lost Kings and Queens.
©2018 https://vinzpoetry.wordpress.com
Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Native Fly: A Faded Blackman
At times I ask;
“Who is now the fool”…
Is being black
Really beautiful?
From kings to slaves
Demanding a place
From slaves to kings
Rejecting their place.
©2018 https://vinzpoetry.wordpress.com
Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Lost before kickoff
Like a native frying pan
I am but a naked man,
Ready for life contest
A contest of the swift…
Racing to climb the hill
Hence the mark I kneel
But there come challenges
Change of rules and pages…
“Step forward if you are white”
In spite of the prerequisite
The White forks had all edges
I, Black.. watched my jinx
Each who made it through
Had a lot of gadgets and tools
To take them within seconds
Should the race begin soonest.
With no boost or vantage
I had to begin from my cage
Several miles behind, their traces
Hoping in vain to win the race.
©2018 https://vinzpoetry.wordpress.com
Onyeche Vincent Onyekachukwu
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Black lives: #Shithole
I am indifferent about shit hole
It is what we get for having no goal
Failing to develop our own coal homes
Yet posing in white farms as a scarecrow
We have the ores to make long poles
But we chose to cross borders to parole
A modern slave remotely control
Yet we fuss to acrimonious roll
Fetching water with leaking bowls
Filled with lots of lost tadpoles
Coal bad governance unending scroll
I am indifferent about shit hole.
