Eneh Akpan Writes: Opinions

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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Mandela: Couldn't Heaven Wait?

Merry Christmas, Madiba!

One more Christmas and it may have been right.

Then they could have you and paste you like the stars to the sky.

I know there’s always a first time

So why didn’t heaven single out this moment;

Pick a perdurable person to perform a positive pilot project?

It would have felt right

And we wouldn’t whine

Yeah, it may not have hurt as much to cry.

For once, couldn’t heaven wait?

And couldn’t Christmas floor the pedal and get here ASAP?

How do we trade healing for this hurting?

Silence been pregnant since the exit of Mandela.

They couldn’t slam the door on December, that’s alright.

But couldn’t heaven for once, just hold the damn line?

Akpan

Monday, December 19, 2011

Card #2: Lil’ Sip Of Magic ft. Boyz II Men

Boyz II Men

He's looking for Mom but she's not there

Kids are looking for reindeer in the air

Boyz II Men,

Why Christmas

I dare to let my dreams reach out to you,

Full of hope, shuttled by love.

I dare to count the sparkle in the eyes of the morning dew,

‘Cause I feel your wake in the coming of the dawn.

Everybody is born with a piece of heaven,

A journey stretching a million miles

Hidden within first, a crawl then, a step

And, inevitably, every wing glides.

Sometimes, we rise to the occasion,

At other times, we rise above

our situations.

But whichever way it works for you,

If you’ll let it work for you;

If you see Christmas as a state of mind,

And not a date, you’ll get all the Christmas you need,

A smile and a sip of magic to boost your flight.

More than your baskets can carry.

Eneh

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Christmas Card: Poems for Christmas

"Christmas Card" is sort of a Christmas fantasy thing for me. I'm collaborating with my favorite artistes; Legends in their own rights to create "Unforgettable" Christmas poetry.

Eneh

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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Twelfth Day Of Christmas - A Poem

for MJ

Making merry and swinging like a pluM

Eastern lights shining, blinding every elsE

Ring ‘em sweet chiming Christmas bells, get togetheR

Raise your voices sing songs of foreveR

You and me, call ‘em guys, let’s get happY

Christmas is here, all feelings’ poetiC

Hollies and Ivies and joy’s a dime’s wortH

Rocking till dawn well, that’s a whole notheR

Immerse yourself in the atmosphere, I

Sense the magic too, boiling ecstasieS

Tell me there’s a chicken in every poT

Medley of Christmas from J5’s albuM

Assault the air, inciting euphoriA

Said, they saw Mommy kissing Santa ClauS

Eneh

This style of poetry is called an acrosonnet. A form of poetry I invented. ; ) It’s a combination of two other forms of poetry, an acrostic and a sonnet. A sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter (10 syllables in each line); an acrostic is a verse derived by starting each line with a letter from a chosen word or phrase. What you have here is the word Merry Christmas used in a double acrosonnet. Read in sequence the first letters and the last letters of each line form the phrase Merry Christmas.

I have taken liberty to deviate from a standard sonnet rhyme scheme to achieve this.

Eneh