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| IFEANY OKWOSHA (left) WINNER POEM OF THE MONTH |
I Know a River – Poem of the month
I
know a river,
No,
not a river,
A
different body of water
Flowing
through veins
Its
purifying movement holds living fire
I
remember that river in Aba
Where
I learnt how to swim
Waterside
we called it
We
never asked its mother its real name.
We
should have
If
we had, maybe when I call now
It
will answer.
I
know a body of water.
Uhamiri
whose mother is Ogbuide
They
call her Oguta lake
That’s
where I call home
It
has a story whose beginnings
I
do not know
But
I know a story around it
And
its neighbour Urashi the Niger.
The
story of a broken courtship,
Of
a separation
That
to this day is a wonder
A
love story with thorns
If
you paddle across either side
You
dare not call the other by its real name.
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