NGOZI OLIVIA OSUOHA - POEMS

NGOZI OLIVIA OSUOHA is a Nigerian poet/writer/thinker. A graduate of Estate Management with experience in Banking and Broadcasting. She has published over one hundred poems/articles in over ten countries. Her first two longest poems of 355 and 560 verses titled THE TRANSFORMATION TRAIN and LETTER TO MY UNBORN published in Kenya and Canada respectively are available on Amazon. She has also featured in over ten international anthologies/books/blogs. She is a passionate African ink.

​SPIRIT OF NATURE

​Nature is a spirit
It guides from the spirit.

Spirit is nature
It beautifies the physical.

Know your spirit
Walk with it,
Love your spirit
Work with it.

Believe you, love you
Save you, guide you
Focus, fight hard
Nothing is impossible.

Allow your spirit to live
Let it fly you around
Let it show you mysteries,
And bring you peace.

​SPRING

​Spring is here
We boom,
Spring is here
We glow.

Green lands
Vegetations aglow
Blue seas
Aquatic inflow. 

Blossoms, teeming
Greenness, greatness
Spring is here.

Fairness, calmness, mildness
Calmness, richness, softness
Dear spring is here.

We live to refresh
We refresh to live
Spring brings life anew.

​SENSATION

​The joy of spring is loud
As the spirit leads,
The wonder of nature is real
As the spirit shows.

The mystery of harvest is natural
See, the land is green
The glory of barns is spiritual
See, the cloud is heavy.

The sensation is real
Hear the sound
The news is great
Dance, dance, celebrate
Rejoice, rejoice, dance
Feast and clap
Watch and pray
For the spirit is nature.

​STORMS

​Of the waves that sink
And the waters we drink,
None is the food we eat
Rather, the flood that did defeat.

Of the earthquakes that destroy
And the landslides that toy,
None can our joy deploy
Because there is no peace to employ.

Of the winds that blow
And the storms that grow,
None can our love flow
For they bring us so low.

Storms so strange
Local and foreign, at range
Storms that change
Stories, histories, eternal.

​LINGERING EFFECT

​If we write the storm
It comes like worm,
If we paint the picture
It dribbles our nature,
If we make a collage
We study it at college,
A perfect lingering effect.

We do not want to die
Hence, the knot we tie
We love to live
So we cherish what we give,
We defeat the battle
Even without our cattle,
For we must move on.

The path of tide
And the length of time
The part so wide
And the strength against crime
There, we pitch our tent
For life is so bent
Even as we pay rent.

​FLAMES

​Raged and angered ocean
Thundering and thunderous sea,
Noisy wind and restless breeze
Troubled land and besieged souls,
Only God understands.

Weeping voices and wailing victims
Floating houses and sinking homes,
Hopeless people and dying nation
Only God knows.

Animals and beasts that raze
Humans and beings at gaze
Souls and spirits ablaze,
A world in flames
Losing her games
Evil gaining names.

​NOT WITHSTANDING

​The Caribbean tears
Mingling down the Nile,
The European gears
Going extra mile
The African fears
Haunting the file
The Asian wears
Flowing the tile,
The American years
Curing pile,
The Australian bears
Not looking fragile.

A lingering effect
Disasters, natural and devastating
Yet never frightening her
As she hopes life never ends
Loving life to wait for hope
Living it lively to the fullest,
The Caribbean hope
Across that tiny rope
Reaching heights and highs
Nervous with sighs,
The hurricanes not withstanding.

DEAD AND GONE

​Daily, I cry for peace
I weep to see calm
I pray for tranquillity
Yet, no hope seems near.

The world is no longer one
Helter skelter, we run
From pillar to post, we speed
Rowing in time and tide
Tossing in deep blue sea
And nothing gives hope.

Look, peace is dead
Look, unity is gone
Wars, terrors, hate, violence
Racism, religion, rebellion
Greed, envy, we all at war.

Give peace a chance
Listen, peace is calling
Hear, she beckons and pleads
Heed, she mourns and laments
Hearken, her tears build fountains.