Encounters
The Wooden Gong has spokenThe gourd of the gods is brokenNow the visitor’s disparaging tokenWe are made to hearken Pull down the shrinesPut up the pulpitYours is baseOurs is genteel…
Words Of Our Elders
Wisdom comes with sacrifices Do you know that the wise learn a lot from the foolish Their back was better than their front The man woke up in the morning,…
Words of Our Elders – Patua
1 A -‘Tank yu’ nu buy half bit bread __ Payment is more useful than expressions of gratitude 2 A crab never forget he hole __ There’s no place like…
Death is not the end
Death is not reincarnation Death is not evaporation Death is TRADE-IN One day we will trade down our bodies for a new body. Body is from God, it’s from God,…
I Think of Home
curled from Diaspora Heartdrops by Chris Dahi As a king I stand On the balcony of my palace and survey the cacophony that is my concrete kingdom. I hear in…
We have come home
Copted from Diaspora Heartdrops by Chris Dahi We have come homeBack from the lands of the distant sunAfter the meals of oat and cerealsMixed with artificial honey and saltBack to…
I Think of Home
As a king I standOn the balcony of my palaceand survey the cacophonythat is my concrete kingdom.I hear in the rear of my heartThe gentle serenade of the windWhistling through…
A 21st century joke
Culled from Frailties of A Pampered Soul by Ihuoma Adaeze Onukwue It is To put my eye In the keyhole- purpose And turn back Time and time again. Then frayed…
Crack – a – nut
1 Guess the next three letters in the series G T N T L Answer I T S Now simply figure it out for your self 2 What is unique…
Home and Abroad
Curled from Diaspora Heartdrops Chris DahiLet he who reads give his own interpretationsto the words of this my tale.Two brothers, Paul and John decided to leave their home townand go…