Category Archives: Poetry

If Winter Comes

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

If winter comes – Will that mean the end of the days We had been savoring? With the steady awakening of these branches And the equally steady fall of your visits and of vows each time – Shall I suffer … Continue reading →

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Herbert Marcuse

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

Herbert Marcuse – I saw you in a 1967 picture lecturing endlessly On the defects of (perhaps) Totalitarianism, and even Marxism. The tables had been set, the podium and the loudspeaker – Were not so different in constitution and shape, … Continue reading →

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Anne Hathaway

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

Anne knows that it’s time to sour the chicken – His lordship William Shakespeare would be returning home very soon. The ways would have been hard and weary – So it is for our Anne. In the absence of his … Continue reading →

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Smiley Face Stickers

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

Before the boy’s stocking feet Boxes and their tops are toppled and tossed As a kneeling man rifles through the shoes   With no employee in sight Tissue paper veils the decimated aisle Like remnants of a mad Christmas   … Continue reading →

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Warmer, Deeper

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

Witches gather on the shore As I tread the deep, Calm as their eyes   The water is warmer, deeper. I swim but do not tire, A head above the surface   I am surrounded, Left to ponder the torture … Continue reading →

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Overturned

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

The very instant Every stone’s been overturned The search can begin Aaron Wiegert

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Torre di Pisa

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

We are not in the district of Tuscany long enough to practice leaning against the sky: whatever invisible force holds us up, holds all things together. We harness inertia for relationships. For when we are in motion; we wish to … Continue reading →

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Fratricide

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

Why do we kill? For suspense, is there a thrill? What about the recompense, Or is that too, just an after-thought? Are we grim as the reaper When we in fact are over-wrought – do we deny we are our … Continue reading →

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The Sun’s Dance

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

(For Kofi Awoonor)   the sun shines bright when the day opens its eyes at the centre of the sky   it shines brighter in the mid-day when it beams and reaches the centre of our heads   it stays … Continue reading →

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This life, my brother

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Ijagun Poetry Journal

(For Kofi Awoonor)   This life, my brother is a battle-field of souls malevolent, benevolent endless strife restless life   This life, my brother is where you fight it hard and still earn it bad   This life, my brother … Continue reading →

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