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We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed.

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Eye open on the sea,
eyes open, of the prodigal;
upward to heaven shoot
where stars will fall from


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Out of the solitude, the fleet,
Out of the solitude,
Intangible like silk thread of sunlight,
The eagles ride low,
Resplendent... resplendent;
And small birds sing in shadows,
Wobbling under their bones.


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I see many colours in the salt teeth of foam
Which is no where to face under the half-light
The rainbow they say is full of harmonies
We shall make a grey turn to face it.


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Is there... Is certainly there...
For as in sea-fever globules of fresh anguish
immense golden eggs empty of albumen
sink into our balcony...
How does one say NO in thunder?


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One dips one's tongue in the ocean;
Camps with the choir of inconstant
Dolphins, by shallow sand banks
Sprinkled with memories;
Extends one's branches of coral,
The branches extends in the senses'
Silence; this silence distills
in yellow melodies.


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Before you, mother Idoto,
naked I stand;
before your watery presence,
a prodigal.


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Christopher Okigbo

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Born: August 16, 1932
Died: 1967 (aged 34)
Bio: Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo was a Nigerian poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as an outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the 20th century.

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