KWENU! Our culture, our future

Mahatma

 

Odimegwu Onwumere

globalactingpoets@yahoo.com

 

Saturday, September 22, 2007

 

Namby-pamby!

Chika Unigwe, her praises

Now lie on my lips

Like a body must lie on the bed.

 

A humanist, she’s maximal in charity,

Maxim!

 

She has nipped my headgear

By the exhibition of an old tradition –

A selfless duty –

Very seldom people practice

in our woo-world of present

Where the acquisition of ‘oof’

and self-aggrandizement

Have taken the streets of the interlopers.

 

She is not mawkish, not magniloquent,

Not like the noisy black-and-white bird

Which is attracted by, and often

Takes away, small, bright objects.

 

No! She is rational, I have seen her

In the literary world she’s blessed plenteous.

This is my orison!

May she never cry

For what belongs to her

Because she is a mahatma.

Copyright 2007 Odimegwu Onwumere

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