POETIC DELIGHTS BY AUADUMA A ADOOKORN-NIGERIA

 

1.    Mistaken kindness 

homosapien crafted in the ideate

of God displays ardour like

the maker our God, in acts 

of goodness,  to support the weak

- our fellow man longing for help

at times carnivorous, chartless to us,

masked in sheep fur of fellow man

herbivorous round-eyed sheep,

naive and credulous 

we pain to rescue their cub

our act fumble on alley of well-meaning 

but misguided favour,

caught in web of blur assay 

when our acts of kindness 

drizzle on demise lawn -

shower on sear-hearted decoy

not deserving

reciprocate foul play for good,

concern for phlegm 

our kindness, a silhouetee 

of ember on iceberg, sink 

us in cauterise mire of Illusion 

ardour of the greater number 

of people cool off, sunder at the 

carrefour of withdrawal 

- the hallmark of the last days

when poise for deeds of favour 

prop your goodness on presage, 

weigh your goodwill on temperance 

and survive the snare of wrong kindness!

2.          Prejudice 

you bully him by his colour, label 

him with #hashtag of contempt 

for a colour he did not make -

something you can not change 

you despise him by his colour, pass judgement before he could say a word 

for a colour he did not bargain - 

something he can not classicise 

you scold him by his colour, cage 

him in entangled web of cold feet 

for a  colour he did not conjure -

something you can not abjure 

yet;  you dote the sky dressed in motley, birds arrayed in etch smorgasbord plumage and floral groomed in variety of colours 

to appeal and satisfy our senses 

how much will you have adore birds 

of the same colour of black or white soar 

in a sky of same hue of black or white 

if not for their varieties of colour display 

you abhor him, scorn variety; please,

swerve underneath his skin and uncover 

his psyche lay silent in fabrics of gold 

it is not black or white as well

cocooned in grey-dark embroidery 

of guess work open to interpretation;

it's the person and not the colour 

that the narrow-minded predicates!

AUTHOR:

AUADUMA A ADOOKORN-NIGERIA

 

Auaduma A Adookorn,  an unpublished Nigerian poet was born on the 22nd Oct 1963 at Norkwiri Boue Ogoni of the Niger Delta. He backed out of school barely two years in high school on the death of her mother. A poet at Allpoetry. He is self employed and married.