Intricate scarves piled high on women’s heads. Ankara cloths in every colour decorated with lace, silk, and gold embroidery, draped across their bodies. Blood red beads dangled from their necks and wrists in elegant display. Igbo Kwenu. Men grouped together with feathered caps tilted just so on the crowns of their heads. Elders with longContinue reading “Igbo Kwenu”
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Untitled
I didn’t feel you move yet I knew you were inside me I didn’t hear you cry yet my ears pierced at the shrill pitch of your voice I didn’t see you smile yet my heart melted at its sight I didn’t hold you in my arms yet my skin tingled at its memory IContinue reading “Untitled”
We are the Freedom Fighters
Bia nga, umuaka. Listen to me, and listen well, to times God saw, before you came. God’s own tears were, felt all day. The air so thick, it could be sliced in half, take a piece, put it in your mouth, taste despair, within our nation. All of us, could taste it there. Smell fleshContinue reading “We are the Freedom Fighters”
Haiku
the sun kisses the waving trees as if for the very first time
Haiku
drenched in rain, thankful earth breathed for another day
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a retiring squirrel scurries up the bark with its latest find
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a single red rose, a honey-sucking bee meets for the first time
The Bedroom of Love
Before I enter, I could feel it, engulfing me like a duvet on a bitter, winter’s night…from the deep, musky smell of your cologne, a mixture of burnt oak and sweet vanilla notes, that I deeply inhale everytime you are close….from the calming notes of blues and reggae escaping from the stereo on your windowsill,Continue reading “The Bedroom of Love”
Haiku
pitter patter of rain washed all our troubles away
why did i lose you?
i remember your cheeky laughter and curly hair and the way it’d dance in the wind your jokes were bad but i always grinned then why tell me why did i lose you for you are a treasure if only i knew if only my stubbornness would melt away your tight embrace would make thingsContinue reading “why did i lose you?”
Inside Iliana Ike 