Showing posts with label Prose poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prose poetry. Show all posts

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Reprieve

Courtesy: 1songday.com

Prose poetry

Come; walk with me out of yourselves. See the vision of the world through the very eyes of childhood.

Take my hand. Let us traverse the threshold of freedom and savor the fragrance of unspoken seductions. We have been held down for way too long; held back from what is rightfully ours to explore. Let us exploit life in the fierce urgency of now and activate our miracle metamorphosis.

We never need to waste motion. You and I belong together in a world where bold compassion has been stolen, bought and sold; mutilated beyond repair. But our resolve has been refined in the forge of tribulation. Now the harvest trundles in on a thunder of deafening wings.

Housemates in a strange place we have found ourselves to be. Yet, none can erase what we really are if we clench the dream in a fist of optimism. The answer to our prayers lay hidden in trackless wilderness nevertheless, we will seek it like lost treasure.

Until we arrive at the end of our rainbow and seize the pot of gold, we must not give up hope to the jaws of despair. Eventually, we become Champions of the struggle when we mop up hate diagrams with bundles of kind acts and clog the gears of coldness with fruits of tenderness.


Akpan


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Saturday, July 27, 2013

I Wish

Courtesy: wish.org

Prose poetry

I wish that my pen would keep bleeding until these phrases slide thro every brain straight down to the heart and jump-start every good reaction.

I wish the jangling chains of discord would morph into a three-fold cord that strums on key and trusses all disparate sentiments in one bond. I wish our world was not so apocalyptic; that kids could roam free and wild on the streets and their folks would not make a fuss.

I wish that wishes were horses and families who knew all about losses could have one hell of ride and leave their worries panting in the dust. I wish that education was free and every child could have a shot at his/her dreams. I wish that children who grew into adulthood had a chance to prove their grit.

I wish that life wasn’t so competitive, after all. I wish that homegrown love could lift our eyes above our noses, make us feel another’s pain.

I wish that truth is standard again; I wish that we could return to the days of Eden and initialize our paradise regained.

I wish that the community of nations could be made to see that in diversity, there is beauty and strength. I wish that the content of character was the measure of a man’s worth.

I wish that every morning when I open my eyes in waking, I could see the colors of the rainbow bouncing off the walls of reality. I wish there was a touch of ambrosia to every smile and pure sweetness in every heart.

I wish that skeletons of stillborn promises could heed the prophecy in the wind’s howling and meld tissue to sinew to flesh to skin to emerge and stand forth a mighty army of attestation.

I wish that the body of every soulja who falls could wear a smile of accomplishment. I wish that these heroes being dead could get us thinking about better days.

I wish that tomorrow is forever.

I wish our faith in today could raise us on wings of eternity until we rise above our situations and render limitations obsolete; up and higher beyond all short-sighted expectations, into a home of serenity and rewarded longing.

I wish that the faint of heart could hope again; I wish that the dying could breathe again. I wish that the voices in the storm could marshal calm into this conundrum.

I wish that respect for a man’s right to liberty, to life and pursuit of happiness could ultimately annihilate the skit of justice witnessed in our day.

I wish that all these wishes were dynamite so that he who reads might explode off the page.


Akpan



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