Okechukwu’s Musings: Poetry, People and Places

Tag: poetry

  • A muse: Stormy Night

    After the long day The storm has its way But come what may we lived to say

  • You, my Inspiration

    I shall look upon Thee In the face of the rising sun And on the evenings airy breeze Your beauty inspires me I sit staring into the air I see you walk to me Entangling me in your embrace Doing this little laugh I always grew fond of My joy knows no limit The fragrance…

  • The House on the Road

    There was a strange house near the highway Made of sun-burned bricks and hay Covered in soot and all about grey It stood like a scarecrow Overlooking the nights cold grip The door rims are low The reeds grow like the whip The neighbors shrug all the time With an apparition of a tongue tasting…

  • Muse: This Night

    One look of things here, now The world would seem so absurd The love I hid in my heart years back Comes to play on my wild fancies This is not my normal poetry per se, I wouldnt classify it as thus. i have had a clash somewhat with someone I really find fascinating and…

  • The Winds Tale: A call of the Hills

    The call of the hills… On a night dark as pitch We stay listening to the swooshing trees And the strange call up the hills… A tornado of wind come surfing down Pushing the brushes and woods apart Sending both man, child and pets scrambling Tall and strong wild palms bend double Threatening to crush…

  • Angels

    It becomes heavily cloudy The Lord lets it rain On the bosom of the rich and poor The suns ray beat us all this while Scorching she is, but our vegetables grow In the heat of sleepless nights The Nights calm airs come upon us They give the warmth we desire Sometimes the cripple on…

  • Haiku: Golden Corn

    The season has come The mild sun has gone The day is mild across the fields The Corn is beheld

  • Musing: The Love I have

    I found love in the air I breath Love in the waving trees Love in life, wild and close Love in a friendly dogs stare In the dark blue skies I found love in your eyes I found love loving Love in giving And love in being with Nature Now I found love today! Guess…

  • Wonder says I

    15.10.08 If men were to create themselves, Then mirrors shall become gladiatorial arenas, And the Earth, an epitome of cruelty. If ants could build skyscrapers, Though centuries it must take, yet it would portray Nature’s wisdom. If crocodiles were to be executioners, in moments, crooks become stories, but for criminals there would be none. If…

  • Three Poems

    The Sunflower rests on the bark of the tree Blushing on the fate of the lover bee The strange buzzing love rant As she wonders what he really wants The fog lay blinding the way The cloud, blue with lovely apparitions Letting her bridegroom show the way As the winds sang the adoration The fragrance…

  • Lullaby: The Rain on the Roof

    The night’s cloud is ripe, Full of Heaven’s dew to give, Raindrops on our faces to wipe, And to our beds’ warmth we cleave.

  • Muse: Out in the Sunshine

    Once out in the sunshine We happen to see wonderful things Things strange and old Things new and rare We feel the warmth The scorch of the Sun And the Heavens shower On our light and fair skin Dawn approaches and I will miss you Your warmth, the heat and your embrace Though the high…

  • The meaning of: a Diamond

    Dreams are plans come true in the mind … Set to manifest in the future … Bound by strings of faith Perseverance, courage, and determination. Then comes a taste from within … Boiling up a bowlful of ideas … A spirit for clear values A culture of modern innovations. Inspirations are high and higher ……

  • Haiku: Love

    When there was love I saw the white clouds Clear like the sweet spring Leaping in joyful haste

  • A Lovers Delight

    Thoughts of you stay in me The plays in my heart The love I see in your eyes The mornings are beautiful We wake beside each other The Golden sun shines on the curtains And all shall be well

  • The Summer’s Tale

    When summers arrive The flowers bloom in red and pink The clouds are proud under a mild sun Joy brings hope, connecting the bridges The green fields grow We see farmers sowing. The summer leaves change hue Blowing a hearty kiss While her cold, monstrous nephew Comes to take what was once bliss The nights…

  • The Clan and The Day

    So the sun rise quietly Behind the hill in the hamlet A smile spreads across the clan Children, pets: dogs and cats Boys with catapults and traps Girls with baskets for water Men gather, ready for a hunt And the women make soup So the day wakes the clan And the clan makes the day

  • Who I Love

  • Musing: Cold Mornings

    Cold morning Monster weather Heaven filters in Her dew and airy lather We stare, we shake The cold kept us awake

  • Lost Love

  • The Descendant, a rains incantation

    The rain falls softly It falls light on me And it minds not why Amazed of such One of uncertainty Of the rain drops falling On I who was a bloodline Break the kola Wave the palm frond Call the wind, and … And listen carefully For the mother of the rain Muster some courage…

  • Lullabic

    Now I will be your cook tonight Tell me what you desire most Anything, rice, pies or Turkish delight? Now I will be a carpenter, why not? To mend the boards and all things Do good, get me my hammer and mallet Now I will be a stone, nay a rock You can call me…

  • The Old Man and The Bulb

  • Musing: The Sugar Ant

    I wonder how you sniff out my sugar The trails to my little cupboard stands The taste beckons to you, And when I return from my issues, weary I see you and your brethren Mocking my ever precious sugar!

  • Haiku: To A Heart That Beats My Rhythm

    Now I dont know why Why I am so fond of you How my nights go by And all I do, I think of you

  • Happie Birthdae text to a brother and mentor- Mr John O. Iroegbu

  • Another Tree Tale, before now

    Now you stand like a king, Like a hermit crab with her pincers, Waving strange, curvy branches above my head. Just with a slight sway, your leaves pat my hair. The hot sun searches for someone to scorch, But under you, all little fauna find solace— A citadel of cool breezes and life! Now I…

  • Home coming: freestyle

    The strange rains fall Leaves fall in circles With a back on the wall I watch the Wrestlers debacle Now the quietness falls on me Solemn, it seems today Chatting, what a boring day it be For my home beckons far away

  • Haiku: Silver Curse

    As it all came with the Word A message, all bles-sed Judas betrayed the Lord And silver was cur-sed

  • the Farmer

    What beautiful things a farmer can be The late night he dreams of his cattle The other days dream was for the pigs And always the sweet music of the farm Comes to him as an embrace What beautiful things a shepherd can do At the call of the Rooster, early morning He, off his…

  • Pensive

    What shall we say Now at this fine moment of May That we stand on this wet clay Watching the Sun leave the day? Now the leaves fall and fade In the streams, we quietly wade And to our past we solemnly bade Welcoming the future which the Creator made The dark clouds grow and…

  • Poetry as genuine as it should be, Part 1

    Poetry is like we humans, existing on earth. Each poem is like one different man out of the billions. You do not expect it to look exactly like the other. It has its own uniqueness different from others. Poetry need not be lengthy or very short, it must not be like Shakespeares work, it must…

  • A Psalm, of Oke Iroegbu

    I am writing a poem about you For a well blessed day it was You made the skies dark blue And such a lovely day gone pass Today I was heavily stressed My eyes weak and dreary To find my way to bed I pray you, dwell with me We all are thankful to Thee…

  • Midnight Thought

    Once upon a midnight dreary, As I pondered, weak and weary, The night was grim, and all was damp. Swarms of fly-filled insects surround my lamp, And out there, the trees stood like Halloween ghosts, Waiting to strike, standing lightly on the dust. The clouds shine; Zeus was trying out his new lamp. His matchsticks…

  • Lost Love

  • Uyo Night Rain

    Thundering, Heavens clap In might and strange call We tremble, we watch The crystal drops fall Freezing winds flush about The rain falls, uncaring The Heavens light, thunders nephew Show his face, now and then Sending chills down our spines Everyone clasping their cheeks Some minding not the dripping saliva All waiting and watching With…

  • Tree Tale with FranK Onuoha

    Tree tale by Oke Iroegbu and Frank Onuoha March 14, 2015 Sitting under a long leafy tree On a mild and serene noon With some Natures best creatures A stray buzzing bee A colony of black ants A handful of wild mushrooms And some twittering birds The breeze blows at intervals Bringing the smell of…

  • Musing: Stars

    The rings of stars Shining gleefully tonight Remind me of you My innocent one Thoughts fly about And in my peaceful web Your memories are caught.

  • How

    How days turn to nights Fast the way ahead runs, Everyone in haste to follow it A glimpse we need and a little wit How friends turn pale and blue All changes in different hues And we grow without it In hope of another to meet How it all comes to me now To you…

  • Henry

    I knew an old man, Henry He was huge, brave and hairy On a beach away from the ferry He lived, happy and merry A little insect crawled up his foot And ‘ah hu, ah ha!’ he did hoot Hopping about like an Indian goof But smiling and strong after the suit He told of…

  • First rains- Haiku

    Rain in Ovim! Cool Winds Mild air Dark Clouds Here and there, Swooshing trees I think I should my head lay for a while! Ovim is my hometown, just arrived from the busy congested city.

  • Musing: Encouragement

    When the night skies cloud And all seem black and dark When life seems so strange And all about, hope evaporates When no ideas come about to write And the burning candles seem to be vain When it rains and floods And there’s no tunnel out When pain and disappointments come And the voices of…

  • The Legend of Wawadomea: Tarantula Snakefish

    There are dreams I like to forget, strange and at times confusing. Dreams that came and went and when I wake I find myself still wallowing in my own reverie, call it sleepwalking if you may but I for all the journey we ever had with The Wave detest all such occurrences. It plays on…

  • a message of love

  • VAL

    I am sharing this love with you little one I find no words to express my joy My attachment to you The whole world revolves around this: The way I feel about you Being far away from home. With my lil cousin @ Ovim- We share the same first name.

  • Natures Tale

    And to you all who see this; this evening: There are many of them here Over the clouds of Ovim Glittering like tiny jewels in the dark Standing majestically over the hills Under where we sight the stars On a mild quiet evening Natures gleeful stare on us And our own look, up To meet…

  • Garden of Love

    Make your heart a fine garden Free of rocks and weeds Bring all sweet flowers and trees Let the Golden Sun shine on it Then watch all beautiful birds Come to play on it Sorry guys my system got spoiled. Trying to come back, missed it and love!

  • The TimeWalker

    I was the boy Hairy, impatient, hopeful A grandson of a great farmer A veteran and a warrior Hewn out of strong wills Killing one eyed bugs Fearing not man or beast Eating the grains of the field And the sweet Bees honey I was the boy Living ten thousand years ago That walked the…

  • Shooting Star

    Have you sat on a desk Outside in the cloudy dark Waiting for some shooting star On a journey to the east? The dark, solemn nights, Quiet, shy, and calm, Whistle in the ears Soft tunes of Mother Nature, Calling all beasts and flora, Gathering a long tale Like a stalk of leaves Packed in…

  • Natures cruelty by Emeka Ogbonnaya

    In a forgotten land there was a forgotten bird who spanned the length of River Kyle longer than Nile. In a forgotten land there was a forgotten fish who swam the nooks of River Kyle longer than Nile The forgotten fish fell in love with the forgotten bird For several full moons Through fatal storms…