ON WATER

Hunt me Below clump prairie in the forest,   Scourge me On ridges of tallest hills,   Taunt me In my cramped dark burrow,   Scare me Behind leaves of crooked trunks,   Shoot me In this tranquil flight in the sky,   Chase me Through hazy streets of the slum, But don't dare me On WATER!  ©Uche Uwadinachi http://bookaholicblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/sneak-peek-into-bookaholic-with-bella.h...

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RAIN KEN SARO-WIWA

As the rain gathersYour grave tormentsThe rot of the soilWhere blood turns oilFor the barrel drunkardsIn pot-belly shells “…like the OgoniBattered, bruised,Brutalized and almost buried”Your eyes tears to seeThe fishes coughing bloodVegetables strangled by petrolInfants pant of cancer Pipeline becomes lifelineTo swim ashore to safetyWhere tankers sit like bankers You queried the earth For spouting oilAnd the gods for notDrying its wide well Your protest bang loud Against the loot of rootsBelonging...

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