Morning Drunks
written by: Leonard Ifeanyi Ugwu, Jr.
@UgwuJr1
Every day I see Agbada on T.V. reverberating in our ears, wobbling our sight
About redemption brought from our ancestors
Enchanting concocted words from an ancient pot
Interpreting incantations from ancient Ancestors.
Are our ancestors no longer mute faded ghosts?
Do they have telephones in their tomb?
I watched their tomb ringle with cobwebs
No resurrection
Not like the Nazarene.
While the Agbada message rings like a bell on a hill every dawn morning.
Thousands of masses cluster with unknown paths to choose
Staggering like morning drunks,
With hearts thumping in the pot of Agbada
And lips singing praises to the Nazarene.
Swinging like pendulum
Confusion!
Confusion!
Leonard Ifeanyi Ugwu, Jr. is a Lecturer/Researcher at the Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is a poet and short story writer. He is a PGD student of English and literary studies of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He studied Political Science to Masters Level and currently he is a Doctoral researcher in same field. Leonard Jr. won the best poet of the year 2012 and 2013 respectively from the Caritas University Literary and Arts Association (CAULAA) where he obtained his first degree in Political Science. Leonard Ifeanyi Ugwu, Jr. is an author of two poetry collections: ‘Echoes of Bullets,’ 2022 (published by Emotion Press Ibadan, Nigeria), and a popular poetic reflection titled ‘Echoes of the Invisible,’ 2017 (published by Author House, USA). He compiled the Anthology of Peace for the World Union of Poets (WUP) published by Atunis poetry 2016. His poems have been published in websites, newspapers, magazines and notable anthologies. He is the ‘Big Squire’ of the World Union of Poets, a laureate at World Nations Writers Union (WNWU) and former coordinator of the Creative Writers Association of Nigeria (CWAN) Enugu state chapter.
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