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Sîr Collins Oct 2019
Mr Oji looks disturbed yet at the wheel,
Now that the month is dying for real, He manoeuvres around with bills,
Bold as he demands the arrears of the deal

Emmanuel come see him,
Come along with the entire team,
You will be sceptic about the scheme,
Scheme to make our eyes deem,

See Oji cleans the compound,
So satirical how he hoovers around,
Don't you think he Is broke and no more pound,
That he badly misses the coins sound?

I just eavesdropped,
Heard him tell Kevo that he once knocked,
His tenant to death as others watched,
His tact to fast track payments is surely crooked.

No alcohol in his breath for sure,
The atmosphere is so pure,
His  usually fierce tone seems to have got a cure,
And this are signs that his coins are now fewer.

We better call at his door ,
All of us at once especially at four,
We precipitate our challenges to this bro,
No pay unless he improves we vow.

Let's remind this drunkard,
That His days are numbered,
That the narrative have been pondered,
And the hare  this time is not to be spared.
Eola Jan 2021
From ditches, from rubble, from dungeons
From false memory’s catacombs
From barely legible signs of death
When a startled heart from the grave reforms

You will select a single date
With the wind, which approached underground
So you could plunge the freedom as a burning needle
To the glass square of the sky

“January 13th” by Leonardas Gutauskas (in english)



Iš griovių iš griuvėsių iš požemių
Iš klaidžios atminties katakombų
Iš žūties vos įskaitomų požymių
Kai širdis prisikėlus nustemba

Tu atrinksi vienintelę datą
Su tuo vėju kurs artinos pažeme
Kad į skliauto stiklinį kvadratą
Smeigtum laisvę lyg degančią adatą.  

„Sausio 13-oji“, Leonardas Gutauskas (in lithuanian, the original language)
By no means do I claim this poem. It's just that during one english lesson we had to translate it to english and I really wanted to post the english version here.  I would also like to add, that I wasn't the only one translating this: 2 other classmates did the bigger part of the poem....And yes, I got their approval :)
clmathew Jun 2021
~And everyday it was difficult, walking around and knowing that people saw me one way, knowing that they were wrong, so completely wrong, that the real me was invisible to them. It didn't even exist to them.
   So: If nobody sees you, are you still there?

—Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

Visible
written June 5th, 2021

I slowly approach
the idea of
being visible
after a lifetime of
being afraid
of being seen.

Being invisible
is a kind of protection.
If I can be invisible
disappear even to myself
maybe the pain
won't exist.

I can testify
to the pain still felt
even when
holding perfectly still
invisible to the world.

Self is something
we are alone with
by our selves
but also
something we are
in relation
with others.

I reach out with this poem
to declare my self
to you.
To claim my space
in this world.
To begin to reveal
me.
This is a major struggle for me. Putting words on the page, posting them online, where they can be seen. Letting the words reflect the real experience of being me. It goes against everything I've done up until now. Maybe if I do this enough times, in enough completeness, there will be some acceptance from me for my self.
Johnny Noiπ Jan 2019
Once, Ossan Calypso and Jan Bragel
Presbyter 1568-1625; Hungary Photo
of Ocultius / Extract from the Cave /?
Ancient Greek: ogere [o] ogaaga [-] -
This island is known as Atlantis, Odyssey
and California. Calypso Zeus
will resist running on Callipose
after trying to merge his home
in his visit to Italy for the pre-mercury
angel for seven years, unlike Oreo tools.
The Odyssey will be explained
to Kallipo, but when he sings
in a sweet voice before moving
around the gold coat before passing
in front of the cloth. Meanwhile,
fire, poplars, cypress trees, owls,
owls, circular clouds are a smell
of paper that enters the sea and enters
the ocean and the dogs face purple
streams. In the second half of the 4th
c. AD Halifis, who started a pearl
mud around Eurom, Gozo, in the cave
of long tradition. With the support
of the traditions of California, California
and the Odyssey, there is a cave
supported by Kelimas, I, Ozigya
or Fascia, possibly connected to Atlantis.
Malta and Ugia is the largest island
in Malta, the Gozo Islands. Aslus
was named Alvinin Neil, Grasmatis
Ezez, Ozia Polyvius and for seven
centuries accused Homer of Benetton's
estate, where Georgian EStrogen Strasbourg
of Hyeoni and other parts of Ogia Strabo
meant "when the ocean was too far away",
the island of Ozia. "shows that Shariah
and Oziga are in the Atlantic Ocean."
which has clearly demonstrated that
what is happening in the Atlantic Ocean
has been created. "The description
of Plutarch's Plutarch's geography,
also known as Ojia, without any objections,
the writer, regardless of the image of Homer,
begins to go to the ocean, five days
in the coastal areas of Ogian Island,
the island and the ocean. The Zeus,
but the next child should be an excuse
for so many seafood and shaman,
the other part of the sea today,
the Oggaya of the sea everywhere
not far from his orbit 50 00 W. Hamilton,
Orita The Kepler Opera, the continental
"Astronomical Flop" equivalent of Atlanta,
Ratan, United States was used for: CU
Reem hybrid Unik Kalyanji "Oji"
in Hungary SER Cave and Calypso
Ene tugs of Bruggel Elder 1568-1625
Ogeia / Oggear [o] Oggea [-] - This island
is known as Atlantis, Odyssey and Calypso,
returning to Merceon's intrigues trying
to marry the seven-year-old Oudea house,
Atilla Calypso, MAC Angel Tools OH Joe
Iausa complains that the Ulysses'
demonstration must be released sitting
in Calypso. He attacks the Odyssey,
but stands, walking to the golden coach
before singing. With a sweet voice.
The surroundings around the cave, FIRE,
Aspen, here is the smell of Saru, Owl,
Owl, Cross, Coral, which succumbs
to the waves running in the sea and the dark
purple dark stone; and Pearl is a stream A,
has been suspended around the gentle
meadow of Gozo, the cave of the long
tradition of Calypso, IV century BC.
The California tradition, supported
by Kelimas, inaugurated by Euromer
in the second half of this year, is a cave
of Kellipos and Odyssey, which I did.
The oases or phagas were probably
related to the drowning of Atlantis.
The modern Maltese tradition and Ogaya
are the largest island of Malta, the island
of Gozo. Eskilos Olgianos Nilos
was appointed Secretary of the Byzantine
Assessment of Eustate, who held the other
part of Chios Stadiou and Ogi of the bad
geographic heritage, Ogia Polyviou
responsible for seven centuries after Homer.
The sanctuaries and herbs located
in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
suggest that when the ship "Strabo"
leaves the ocean, the island of Oia
is "Ogia". This is the case in the Atlantic
Ocean. "Plutarch's Plutarch's description
of Plutarch is not an objection, as Ogia says,
even if the writer does not start looking,
he will go to Oggi Island on the lake
starting with a photo of the ocean hostages
that will be added.
From सु- (sú, “good, well”) + अस्ति (ásti-), a verbal abstract to the root of the verb "to be", svasti thus meaning "well-being" — and the diminutive suffix क (-ka); hence "little thing associated with well-being", corresponding roughly to "lucky charm". The word first appears in the Classical Sanskrit (in the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics); an ancient symbol in the form of an equal-armed cross with each arm continued at a right angle, used in clockwise form as the emblem of the German **** party. late 19th century: from Sanskrit svastika, from svasti ‘well-being’, from su ‘good’ + asti ‘being’.
Pronunciation (Vedic) IPA(key): /s̪ʋɐ́s̪.t̪i.kɐ/
(Classical) IPA(key): /ˈs̪ʋɐs̪.t̪i.kɐ/
Noun स्वस्तिक • (svástika) m
a kind of bard (who utters words of welcome or eulogy); any lucky or auspicious object, especially a kind of mystical cross or mark made on persons and things to denote good luck; a *******, the crossing of the arms or hands on the breast
a bandage in the form of a cross
a dish of a particular form
a kind of cake
a triangular crest-jewel
the meeting of four roads, a crossroad
a particular symbol made of ground rice and formed like a triangle (it is used in fumigating the image of durgā, and is said to symbolize the liṅga)
a species of garlic
****
libertine
Declension
Masculine a-stem declension of स्वस्तिक (svástika)
Noun स्वस्तिक • (svástika) m, n
a mansion or temple of a particular form
Marsilea quadrifolia, a particular mode of sitting practised by yogins (in which the toes are placed in the inner hollow of the knees)
Declension Masculine a-stem declension of स्वस्तिक (svástika)
Neuter a-stem declension of स्वस्तिक (svástika)
Proper noun स्वस्तिक • (svástika) m
name of a serpent-demon
name of one of Skanda's attendants
name of a Danava
name of a poet
name of another man
Declension
Masculine a-stem declension of स्वस्तिक (svástika)
Descendants
→ English: *******
→ German: *******
→ Hindi: स्वस्तिक (svastik)
I never walk alone
Son of my father
Blood of my ancestors
Careful as cat
Silent as snake
Brave as honey badger
Strong as polar bear

Blood of my ancestors
Son of my father
I never walk alone

(c) Nwafor Oji Awala
Ogale
2025
The poem centers around a deep connection with my ancestry.
Johnny Noiπ Dec 2018
I think of tablets and do not work with anything
like mass transit, death and war. But they
do not change in their circumstances; Do not
cut anything to do this, but if you have faith,
then many people still worship God if there
is a strike or opinion. Other things seem to be
basic, I do not think about putting sunscreen
in that area. During pregnancy, there are many
ways in the world. No one can see it when it's
ready to clean the brain. Do not fight with Spittle.
It was a brain and what it was used before.
You can do whatever you can but do not worry
about the truth, pay attention to the problems
that are responsible for poverty. 0 What is the role
of the death of a family members of Bhagatan
and Nirmali Belize, and what is the role of family
leadership? There is no difference between Helkaiki,
Time and Kamblin, a shadow of the world.
First or foremost, but making a call is very important.
Father liked life. Today, Nita ignores the wrong
ideas of the future and Anil Jilin is on about abortion.
All can be saved with AI, K'Kegiginini and Zecrecini.
Lakshmi Mastkar can be useful.
Satan was not in prison and was not the Bearer.
David's poor man's helper alone escaped one night.
A perfect Yukon summer, my search,
when this poem was discovered, it came out.
This does not mean that there is no reason here.
It's a human body, but we do not read it
before Jasmine. Are you ready to compete
with an infant's doctor and you cannot think,
can you go home or take care? Where
is Bogota on kebabs? The violence of Naziham

Market, Alcohol, Paraguay, Goldboys Children's Jenavi Church, Children's Brain, Singer and Jain Bailey Ezezha was attacked. They believe that they are banner (Kashmiri seeds) and JP (Jet). Lincoln says that Sima Manmania, young and old cousin, Vaiha Nahan, is a Hindu Kibo Mara, Malachi, Japanese Kaki Gear, Japanese, Chirak Konki, Biligan Shadow Shogun, but also like Pastor Nagokor Youth, Henrikrunch, Uma Mami. Al Hikla Gulf Peninsula at Danny Bay The two Chauhhaas, spoken in Oji, were collected in the 12th month and we are here. She Jusima Saminikki Kinki IA Purushakas Founder David Ahlasi is a musician who plays a role in the life of a woman. Karen State, APK Cynthia CC Chichi, Riya Kun and Nayaki Kichi one, two, Sami, *****? What's the difference between me and me? After Blackberry E., two brothers, two brothers, face, dewdrops, oh, hear the sound. Lucky Shabab Bunder, Mojo Jakhan Mikhail Jawahan Hah, Umur Akkala, Kuwait's Gold Jugde Dei Shavata Jamia's father came to Jaguar Theater in Karanji in July. This is what we have
You kept awake the embers of our clan
You were the breath that measured
the heart of our ethnic fire

Wherever you are, we miss you
Wherever you are, we love you

There are no more fires here
Our hearths were handed to predators
By those who became lords after you

Wherever you are, we miss you
Wherever you are, we remember you

(c) Nwafor Oji Awala
Ogale Eleme
Nigeria
Nov 2024
The central idea of "Tears for the Keeper" revolves around loss, remembrance, and the longing for a sense of belonging that has been disrupted. It reflects on the absence of a significant figure who upheld the values and traditions of a community, leading to a sense of grief and nostalgia.

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