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Poetry for the Dark Hearts-A Collection of Dark, Lyrical Tales
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Ongoing, First published Sep 04, 2016
Ranked #346 in Poetry


Journey with me through a land of nightmares. 

Follow me down the path towards insanity. 

I need you with me, I need to survive. 

Blood reigns from the heavens when I scream, and the earth drowns in tar. 

Don't forsake the ways of our ancestors, though they may never be wise. 

We owe it to them to follow they're examples, even though they never grace us with death. 

All I want is mercy, to be drawn from this wretched tormenting. 

But mercy is costly, and I can't pay.
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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.