Who is Gerald Onyebuchi

A graduate of Microbiology, University of Ibadan Nigeria. I write poems on any theme and short stories. I am an avid reader of all sorts ...
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Gerald Onyebuchi Poems

  • In The Rain
    In the rain,
    Where laughter and frown smeared our faces
    As the pomegranate failed to bud.
    And with shuddering kneels we carried the basket of uncertainty home ...
  • You Have Crossed The Rubicon
    I was a young vine with leaves until you turned me into a pine.
    A flowing river, then you seared me into a desert
    I was the dazzling sun, a cynosure of many eyes, until you raped me of my iridescence.
    The pride of many men, until you smeared me with lust. ...
  • It Became Our Story
    Like a fable that never left the table were the
    Words of the prophet
    Swiftly, slowly, it became our story.
    ...
  • Raped Future
    I see a dysfunctional future
    Wailing in hunger. Many tongues scrabbling for a single bone
    Living corpses pile the street.
    I hear soothsayers boast in their ignorance and claim a stolen future ...
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Hope 3 Pain 3 Song 2 Endless 2 Light 2 Hunger 2 Rain 2 Pride 2 Sun 2 Tongue 2


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Her Name Liberty
 by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

I thought to do a deed of chivalry,
An act of worth, which haply in her sight
Who was my mistress should recorded be
And of the nations. And, when thus the fight
Faltered and men once bold with faces white
Turned this and that way in excuse to flee,
I only stood, and by the foeman's might
Was overborne and mangled cruelly.
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