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t. reflexion
t. reflexion
Jan 14, 2009 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

THRASH ABOUT

THRASH ABOUT I listened to the year of songsWondered on what to singA song of choice and preferenceFrom African voice like mineI stopped to laugh at the soundMy baritone booming bigIn dialect songs of storiesOf folk lore and moonlight tales Now it is a year of poemsI have handful inscriptionsBut none has got a rhymeTo translate my native waysOf African thoughts to EnglishLike the struggle of the hopelessMy incapacity reflects the dearthThis terra firma bereft of text The more I try to write what I seeMy pen disrupts violently thunderousLike in stormy haze and rumbling seaThe balance of meters dislodgedIn harmonic twirl and rhythmLeaving me to wonder in aweIf the scribbles inked on paperPortray what I mean to say 
— t. reflexion, Jan 14, 2009

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Country/Region: NGA

Favorite Poets: Inspired by an article in an old manuscript , It reads:, AXIOMS OF PERFECTION, In the physical order – In the realization of the dream of beauty, In the moral order – In the realization of the dream of love, In the intellectual order – In the realization of dream of poetry, In the spiritual order – In the realization of the dream of the mystics

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t. reflexion

t. reflexion

17 years 4 months ago

Like a joke...

we say here 'if you spoil or break English or add water to it, police will arrest you'. I have accepted the limitation my native tongue has placed on the flow of my tongue with English and attempt to use it for a signature, I mean a style of writing. Thank you for the reading and for the comments. Best wishes. T.