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Leonell EchaFebruary 27, 2017

Optional frequency in heartbeats. Uneven calamity of the mind. Demodulation of ecstasy. When photogenic minds are peaky. Flash, camera shutters. Light rays, blinding sights. Unidealized memories. Revealing the last unbended form. These images are in phases. Dark places, blurry faces. Reality in a piece of a covered lie. Soothing on rough patches. If it could […]

Leonell EchaJanuary 8, 2017

Not sure what to write. Seems harder when it’s your own Time to check this box. Absence is now grown You’ve brought another word Add it to this book. Leon ================================== It’s not so easy trying to say a welcome to you our mummy. Words have not been old, you should tell Winston that too. […]

Leonell EchaJanuary 1, 2017

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Today just like any other, As the sun rose, marking the death, And birth of another day, Yesterday’s thoughts, today’s acts, Today’s news, tomorrow’s facts, Yesterday’s weakness, morrow’s strength, Strangers one day, kith another, Today fades into yesterday, And tomorrow into today, A year is just another day. Hijab Gurl ============================================ Gift of rolling days […]

Leonell EchaNovember 23, 2016

Dawn First gift Up and about Sleeves up,Nanny duties Super mom rehersals Alone time Reflections Omolola ———————————————— Awake With so Much duties,but Will sleep some more At least. Lazy Day, no Pay. – Rachel Charles ————————————————- Yesterday, Unlike tomorrow, When my emotion Was a spider web And embraced brokenness, Today I’m Alive! – Silvia ————————————————– […]

Leonell EchaNovember 20, 2016

I met him Locked eyes with him He looked just like me With a familiar smile Except he had a skewed eyebrow Like a pastor will wry at an erring member I met him Looking dissatisfied with his now Like he slept with a fair weather forecast But woke up to a hurricane Looking less […]

Leonell EchaNovember 1, 2016

Africa Of the sturdy pyramids Daring the sun with a stare. Africa Of the Savannah and the deserts Robed along like contrasting fabrics. Africa Of the earth so black and rich, Skin ebony, bronze and brown Where beauty is born and nurtured. Africa Of hunger, diseases and lingering deaths Yet life sprouts like blooming flowers […]

Leonell EchaOctober 31, 2016

Ilorin, Steaming pot of color and tribal marks Fork for the hungry fed Tars dug deep by nature to sink tyres in a well- A river that streams in its Niger One Among 12 sticks strawed deep A haven for the Ipinle’ sheep Surrounded by neighbours bounded by tongues, marks and dirt. – Leon —————————————————————————- […]

Leonell EchaOctober 18, 2016

With the chalkboard as his throne He calls on all his subjects ; Arithmetic, chemistry, physics, statistics… To learn to guard in numbers To climb to learn the ropes To teach the future in its history Because to die, first, we must live. – Leon ————————————————————————— For little Tim who’s Math is shot. Lizabeth who […]

Leonell EchaOctober 13, 2016

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty would later fall We laughed and teased him about his big head he would cry home and never give his sled. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty’s fear would just crawl Whenever his sun was up in the sky we’d remind him that the night […]

Leonell EchaSeptember 14, 2016

These words are for the little petals whose stalks have rubbed the earth whose seeds have drunk the ground. These words are for the clouds that rain with hails. for the wondering of their mysteries in innocence. These words are for the ones who are she, her, female, woman, girl for those who are the […]

Poetry: The Picture That Love Never Paints!

The Return!

Another Day!

T-O-D-A-Y!

Y-O-U!

A-F-R-I-C-A!

T-H-I-S C-I-T-Y!

A Teacher’s Hope!

Humpty Dumpty!

Girl Child!

The Good Society

open more doors

in the ground

Seeds

A ditty

The Good Society

open more doors

in the ground