The Ayatollah Wept(Poem)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

By Chidi Anthony Opara

Presuming self sacred,

The  bull,

Bully of a burgeoning brash era

Barged into the oily dwelling

Of the rascally one

And burrowed its horn

Into the belly of a beloved son

And despatched the beloved son

To the great beyond.

The Ayatollah wept

And vowed revenge.

Like the  seed of ugba,

Rage exploded

Dispersing seeds of hate.

Our world is enveloped

By the whiff of war.

Bile boiled,

Ego bloated,

The rocks flew,

The Ayatollah exerted revenge.

The bull is raging again,

Its eyes on devastation.

Our world is enveloped

By the whiff of war.

(Poem presented as social service, all rights reserved)

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Chidi Anthony Opara is a "Life Time Achievement" Awardee, Registered Freight Forwarder, Professional Fellow Of Institute Of Information Managerment, Africa, Poet and Publisher of PublicInformationProjects

[Olasupo Laosebikan]

Brother Chidi painted it; this unsettling times.

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[Harrow, Kenneth]

indeed "the bull," as in picasso's Guernica.

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

har...@msu.edu

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