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you shouldnt trample it upon the floor
because your barns are brim in harvest
but if you dispatch and disseminate
its better for use-than stepped upon

now that your hand is vested the power
in the acquisition of materialism
it is only fools that feed dogs
while human tongues are tired and thirsty

your wealth is measured in indefinate figures
your lands are hectars of infinite space
but the place your coffin requires
is not above,but underneath a tiny tenement

you the affluent of insatiable desires
hark unto the simplicity of the flesh
for mere is the mud a cloth upon the soul
that soon of rentage-is given back to dust
— emeka ozurumba, Jun 27, 2009

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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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Arrow

16 years 11 months ago

I'm enjoying your work.

Lots of great lines in here but my favorite is: your lands are hectars of infinite space. Wonderful way to say a lot is really a little. I think this would read better with effective punctuation, e.g., you(,) the affluent of insatiable desires(,) hark unto the simplicity of the flesh for mere is the mud(,) a cloth upon the soul that soon of rentage( )is given back(--) to dust Strong poem.
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 11 months ago

Strong poem indeed.The

Strong poem indeed. The *haves* of the world contribute very little, take much more than give. Thank you. ~A "There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic." Anais Nin