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Ongoing, First published Apr 23, 2023
♥︎    Poiein, the greek word for for poetry that means : to make, to create.    ♥︎
♥︎    Here are some poems I made :)    ♥︎
♥︎    Hope you enjoy!    ♥︎
♥︎    The art on the cover isn't mine.    ♥︎
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The 155th Sonnet

155 parts Complete Mature

Shakespeare's Macbeth was in my syllabus when I was in secondary school. But Macbeth was just an appetiser, for I went on to get the complete works of his. But it was as I was reading his sonnets that I tried to mimic his 14-line poems. The rest is history. I did not read Shakespeare; I encountered him. In my "mimicking" of his sonnets, I learnt that a word could be stretched from its primary meaning to other "shades" of meaning. Poetry to me is like a pilgrimage, a path of mystery, a ritual that can transport the poet from where he is to where the subject of his writing is, where he achieves a lived experience. I deliberately chose a rhyming scheme of AABB CDCD EEFF GG, with which I wish to import an African voice into the sacred art of sonnet writing.