Godwin Inyang's Blog, page 16
June 6, 2020
Dr Fixit (4158 - 4163)
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We were bathed with the dew hanging on leaves
and in our knapsacks were honey from bees
and special loafs; the birds sang and the breeze
blew; the human highway did hum and hiss
as we drew close to it which we’d follow
to reach the terminus and join a train that’d go
our way but to drop at the next point
and then navigate our way to our rest point,
destination I mean,
We were bathed with the dew hanging on leaves
and in our knapsacks were honey from bees
and special loafs; the birds sang and the breeze
blew; the human highway did hum and hiss
as we drew close to it which we’d follow
to reach the terminus and join a train that’d go
our way but to drop at the next point
and then navigate our way to our rest point,
destination I mean,
Dr Fixit (4151 - 4157)
4151
We all marched from the field and followed a track
that brought us to the river bank and our feet did smack
as we marched downstream to reach the railway track
and hopped on a train that beat on the rails click-clack
as it headed with passengers or cargo
to go past the vast jungle to get to
the human big city hugging the ocean shore
where human high-rises have many a floor
We all marched from the field and followed a track
that brought us to the river bank and our feet did smack
as we marched downstream to reach the railway track
and hopped on a train that beat on the rails click-clack
as it headed with passengers or cargo
to go past the vast jungle to get to
the human big city hugging the ocean shore
where human high-rises have many a floor
Dr Fixit (4097 - 4104)
4097
their parents’ consent or took their ambition
elsewhere to enviable fields of erudition
like law, medicine, science and engineering.
Like humans, the soldier ants in science were racing
too for outer space and in the laboratories,
scientists were dabbling with genetic properties
promising improved genes to every soldier ant
that if provoked could cut into halves the elephant
their parents’ consent or took their ambition
elsewhere to enviable fields of erudition
like law, medicine, science and engineering.
Like humans, the soldier ants in science were racing
too for outer space and in the laboratories,
scientists were dabbling with genetic properties
promising improved genes to every soldier ant
that if provoked could cut into halves the elephant
June 5, 2020
Dr Fixit (4088 - 4096)
4088‘I’d heard of marriage where swords were drawnand some had their skin hideously torn.‘But I’m glad this marriage helps sheathe our swordsand rather we’re returning with hearts and noise‘quite happy and we all say to folkfrom all the clans, let on our ribs poke‘more love.’ When our chief ended, the emceesignalled the deejay to resume fullylifting folks’ mood with music from his
Dr Fixit (4088 - 4093)
4088
‘I’d heard of marriage where swords were drawn
and some had their skin hideously torn.
‘But I’m glad this marriage helps sheathe our swords
and rather we’re returning with hearts and noise
‘quite happy and we all say to folk
from all the clans, let on our ribs poke
‘more love.’ When our chief ended, the emcee
signalled the deejay to
resume fully
lifting folks’ mood with
‘I’d heard of marriage where swords were drawn
and some had their skin hideously torn.
‘But I’m glad this marriage helps sheathe our swords
and rather we’re returning with hearts and noise
‘quite happy and we all say to folk
from all the clans, let on our ribs poke
‘more love.’ When our chief ended, the emcee
signalled the deejay to
resume fully
lifting folks’ mood with
June 4, 2020
Dr Fixit (4082 - 4087)
4082
(that drew applause from the theatre fans
but his speech had indeed the semblance
of a rejoinder to Tradeit’s speech earlier)
was getting married to. ‘In my days younger
‘which I spent in ferrying legally the timber,
I’d journeyed across the clans with every trader
‘as our hired timber carts would help their goods
convey to remote points in diverse neighbourhoods
‘and
(that drew applause from the theatre fans
but his speech had indeed the semblance
of a rejoinder to Tradeit’s speech earlier)
was getting married to. ‘In my days younger
‘which I spent in ferrying legally the timber,
I’d journeyed across the clans with every trader
‘as our hired timber carts would help their goods
convey to remote points in diverse neighbourhoods
‘and
Dr Fixit (4082 - 4085)
4082
(that drew applause from the theatre fans
but his speech had indeed the semblance
of a rejoinder to Tradeit’s speech earlier)
was getting married to. ‘In my days younger
‘which I spent in ferrying legally the timber,
I’d journeyed across the clans with every trader
‘as our hired timber carts would help their goods
convey to remote points in diverse neighbourhoods
‘and
(that drew applause from the theatre fans
but his speech had indeed the semblance
of a rejoinder to Tradeit’s speech earlier)
was getting married to. ‘In my days younger
‘which I spent in ferrying legally the timber,
I’d journeyed across the clans with every trader
‘as our hired timber carts would help their goods
convey to remote points in diverse neighbourhoods
‘and
Dr Fixit (4075 - 4081)
4075
As a teenage boy I’d witnessed a child
profusely bleeding after a cut not mild
by an attendant and the
excuse the women
peddled was the attendant must have lain
that night with her husband, meaning a rule
she broke which showed her training from a poor school
she had or just an unprofessional practicer
of her craft but the bleeding evaded every answer
and the child’s
As a teenage boy I’d witnessed a child
profusely bleeding after a cut not mild
by an attendant and the
excuse the women
peddled was the attendant must have lain
that night with her husband, meaning a rule
she broke which showed her training from a poor school
she had or just an unprofessional practicer
of her craft but the bleeding evaded every answer
and the child’s
June 2, 2020
Dr Fixit (4069 - 4074)
4069
‘that like a leaf would shake at the slight touch
of the breeze that back here you’d soon rush;
‘that deep down in your heart you decide
to follow him and together forever would reside
‘as husband and wife but if you did make
or was forced to make what seems like mistake,
‘feel free here and now to rescind your decision
as forced marriage isn’t our tradition;
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‘if
‘that like a leaf would shake at the slight touch
of the breeze that back here you’d soon rush;
‘that deep down in your heart you decide
to follow him and together forever would reside
‘as husband and wife but if you did make
or was forced to make what seems like mistake,
‘feel free here and now to rescind your decision
as forced marriage isn’t our tradition;
4070
‘if
June 1, 2020
Reflection On My Birthplace
Once, we were wretchedly mud and thatch poor;Now, we step on concrete to the top floor.
