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her tooth decay

husband and father a teeth feasted

by germs and rot,be reasonable

for the distance,as the fowl smelling

be aired absolute by your step backward

 

two tightened shut eyes be blind

yes,to delete the dirty dent away

from your view,and gaze of darkness

upon what even the look of the tooth brings

 

and your ear be locked and blocked

for the transfer or worms not to your ear

you'd rather have it waxy clean

than extend to a drop of her insult

 

but surrounding the mouth smell

is the priceless life of a lad to grow

without the bee or the ant alike

for ordinary stink,not even like poverty

— emeka ozurumba, Feb 09, 2008

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Region, Country: Nigeria , abuja

Favorite Poets: christopher okigbo, wole soyinka, gabriel okara , odiah ofeimun- john keats, p.b shelley

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poetopoet

18 years 4 months ago

“and your ear be locked

"and your ear be locked and blocked," wonderful destruction of english here and there. poe
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poewriter58

18 years 4 months ago

your poem

I found your poem difficult to understand perhaps it is the difference in the use of the language which I come across quite often therefore it is difficult to assess the value of your poem I am reading your words and understanding them in one way and you may very well have not meant it to say what it says. locked and blocked perhaps you know what you meant and it is being misunderstood by some. we must remember we come from different parts of the world and much is lost in translation Chrys
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Kieran Nelson

18 years 4 months ago

I thought locked and blocked

I thought locked and blocked worked quite well! Other than that I'd have to agree with Chrys that I didn't understand it very much. Now I take the part about different langauges and such into consideration but, if you are going to post on an english langauge site, then should one not expect to be critiqued like everyone else? Kieran "Mind, how you go!" - Roger McGough's poem for LSD Awareness Week