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Sentinel Poetry (Online) #44 THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POETRY & GRAPHICS...since 2002 ISSN 1479-425X Editor: Amatoritsero Ede
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Angela A. Nwosu
Night
The faithful bacchants declare that the darkness of the night is the darkness of clarity clarity that enlightens the chloroformed silence of daytime when gliding shadows are a litany of emotions whose blood is distilled into the fountains of oil
The priest of the night proclaims that the face of the country is a broken map and a yawning wound. He declares the innocence of the night and a baptism of wine... daytime is the enemy where people are mere shadows dripping with the blood of blunders
Nighttime is a celebration of the second face where smiles weigh nothing on the scale of conscience and the true-self dissolve into an endgame Night is the lord of fresh illusions where abbreviated tongues play back the tapes
II The second face is not alone the hidden enemy is an alcove of nuances where silence hangs like a mournful wake on the ceiling
In the santuary of pretences the heart of laughter treads softly holding on to the equilibrium of seemingness evading the circle of mindless theories
A desert of lies run through channels of inverted annulments the bonding of fire breaks on the money-table and the wrinkles take on a lying mirror
The eye of the mind is the tool of power The night is a sign of colours The shadow is a forecast of moods I grow from blindness to freedom because the heart agrees and the word is made manifest.
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