Chinyeaka’s Poetic Journey
This is a selection of Chinyeaka Okoli’s Poetic Journey over many decades, especially reflections from the end of the Nigerian Civil War.
The Poems cover Love and relationships, Attitudes, Life struggles, Survival, Death, Nature, Destiny and various world and societal philosophical issues.
LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS, ATTITUDES
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(1) The Tongue (2) A Plea for Return (3) A Lover’s Cry (4) A Plea for Reunion (5) My Ram (6) For Them That Need Love (7) Try and See (8) His Amorous Waterloo (9) Extract and Commentary (10) How Long Shall I Thirst (11) The Scorpion (12) Urge for a Car (13) Learn to Tolerate (14) The Reluctant Farmer (15) Relationship (16) The Couple (17) Marriage (18) The Unspoken Love (19) The Modern Black Girl (20) The Hunter Hunted (21) Too Young to Understand
LIFE, STRUGGLE, SURVIVAL, DEATH
(22) Wayek 1 (23) Wayek 2 (24) Death (25) Brother Theophilus (26) A Horrible Visit (27) My Ancestor (28) Everyone is a Hero (29) Who Catches the Tadpole (30) Doing the Merry-go-Round (31) The Hospital Folder (32) Have You Been There (33) The Goat and The Cock On a Christmas Eve (34) Civil Coup (35) The Changing Times (36) The Parasites (37) On Mother’s Day (38) To Chinua Achebe On His Sick Bed (39) The Adult (40) Prisoners (41) The Journey of the Magum (42) The Crying Doll (43) Dream of the Oppressed (44) The End? (For Liza) (45) The Living Corpse
NATURE, DESTINY, PHILOSOPHICAL
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(46) A Better Land Than Earth (47) The Third Eye (48) The King of Kings (49) Tomorrow (50) Oh! But for Wings (51) The Revelation (52) The Rape (53) The Toad (54) Enough of Such Deceit (55) The Wall-Gecko (56) Destiny (57) Rain (58) Sudden Rainfall (59) The Natural Air-raid (60) The Gambling House (61) The Computer (62) Visitation (63) Liberty, Freedom, Independence (64) A Rhyme (65) Wisdom and Civilization (66) Plants to Animals (67) Spring in Calgary (68) Parents (69) Meaning of Parents (70) The Hungry Children
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