School Reunions
written by: Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Like a murmuration,
they suddenly appear,
swirl, swoop and storm the
ancient, familiar compound,
perching on the strongest bough
of the school’s pine tree,
a brawny Methuselah,
chattering loosely about long-departed
waves of creamy city gossips, and asking one another,
“How do you do?”
When the clock ticks a little further down
the aisle of a wailing theatre,
“And how have you been?”
At the time of the greedy feasting —
hollow, glass-tinkling buffet,
“And where are you now?”
Just like in a romanceꓽ
Your ex-lover is that person you’re curious about his
or her present life.
Your present lover is that person you’re curious about his
or her past life.
So it is with school reunions.
Son of a Superintendent of various schools, Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu, Nigerian novelist, poet, aphorist, short-story writer, exhibited fine artist and drummer, was born in Umuahia, south of Nigeria, to Francis and Mary Ogbuagu. He attended Government College, Owerri, south of Nigeria, where he began writing fiction at age 15. Ogbuagu published 'Bosheth Williams,' a Bildungsroman, in 2003. His novel 'Words of a Shaman' was published in London in 2019. 'My Dungarees,' his novella, was published as an eBook in March 2019, in the Amazon Kindle Edition. He has works of fiction and poetry awaiting publication. Many of his poems have been published in newspapers, magazines and journals, and over 250 of them are online. Over 800 of his quotes, published online, are treated as quotable and are cited by various websites, individuals, corporate bodies, and cultural and political organizations worldwide. His quotes have also been cited by authors in their books.
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