Poem #1271: Czar Bizarre

 

Photo Courtesy: UNHCR

Europe
Divided Africa
No bones
At a snap
Now they divided
On Ukraine
Undecided
On the stakes
While posterity
Takes notes
The inhumanity
Breaks a bone
Now we know
Why African leaders
Would go slow
At resolving matters
Their teachers
Taught them so
The first world war
The second also
Was all yours
Spawn in Europe
Ain't no bones
Get off the pot
Enough is enough
Give unto Czar
What is Czar's.

Akpan

Poem #1269: Battlecry

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Let God arise

Let His enemies

Be scattered wide

Establish your will

Scatter the peoples

Who delight

In war like the ripples

Let all who hate

Peace flee

As before a plague

As wax melts before heat

As smoke driven away

By a hurricane

Let God

Our God

Make useless all

Weapons of war

To the fatherless

Be a Father

To the widow

A Defender

Comfort the home-

Less and be their Shelter

Let our God arise

In the power of His might.

Akpan