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Friday, 8 November 2019

Poem of things and other things - Oumar Farouk Sesay

A littered mind
A disused thought
A muffled song
A caged bird
A pregnant mind
A failed state
A confluence of pulse
A metaphor of martyrs
An angry poet
An unwritten poem
A poet unborn
A blind bat
A rotten mango
A tethered cow
A fossilized dream
A roaming ghost
A dead hero
A hacked limb
A chopped spirit
A stumped monument
A fading memory
An embalm[ed] body
A mummified soul
A tortured child
An abused woman
A dead rat
A wagging tale
A stunted metaphor
A broken pencil
A torn paper
A maimed muse
A stupid poet
A lame reader
A dead country

Oumar Farouk Sesay (20th century) Sierra Leone
Source: Warscapes

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