http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/ World Poets Society (W.P.S.) Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:30:54 GMT Chidi Anthony Opara http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/38 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/38 Mandiba's humility haunts Haughty hooligans Huddled inside hideous Houses of mal-governance. As Mandiba celebrate Nine decades of struggles, Strident grateful Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:46:38 GMT Chidi Anthony Opara http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/37 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/37 My eyes behold From this hilltop, Wasteland of Nigeria, Niger delta, Home of fish hunters. I behold From this podium, Pipelines carrying petroleum, Sometimes Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:07:36 GMT Chidi Anthony Opara http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/35 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/35 Why do you cause pains? With reckless pens, With incubated fabrications Of fertile imaginations, Like incubus, Suppressing virtuous esteems. You are endowed Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:52:09 GMT chidi.opara http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/34 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/34 Why did you leave me In this desert With labyrinths of footpaths, Without a guardian? Dee Christopher, Town crier, Why did you leave me On the paths of Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:23:45 GMT CHIDI ANTHONY OPARA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/33 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/33 Why do they divide Citizens into categories? Categories of first gentlemen, First ladies, First sons And first daughters. Why do they divide Nations into Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:20:30 GMT CHIDI ANTHONY OPARA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/32 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/32 Who are these Little angels warring On my bedside? Pleasantly disturbing My early morning sleep. It's me daddy Nneka's voice broke in In into my eardrum, Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:50:23 GMT Dimitris P. Kraniotis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/31 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/31 Ideals Snow-covered mountains, ancient monuments, a north wind that nods to us, a thought that flows, images imbued with hymns of history, words on signs with Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:27:31 GMT CHIDI ANTHONY OPARA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/30 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/30 Let me lay my head On this belly Now flabby, Belly that bore the sack, Sack that once bore me For first nine months. Let me gaze Into these eyeballs Now Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:20:48 GMT CHIDI ANTHONY OPARA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/29 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/29 Beaming with smiles, Beautiful smiles, Gap-toothed smiles, She moves about Setting the table With big bowls Brimming with foods. With big bottles Brimming with Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:38:51 GMT CHIDI ANTHONY OPARA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/28 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/28 Do they know Its christmas? All innocent folks In jail awaiting trial, Denied justice and dignity, Denied rights and priviledges. Do they know Its new year? Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:52:07 GMT CHIDI ANTHONY OPARA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/27 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/27 I see now perverts munching putrid porridge on the podium. I see now unpleasant personages preparing to pounce on peoples' patrimony. I see now war mongers Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:03:56 GMT CHIDI ANTHONY OPARA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/26 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/26 Thick black clouds on that day covered Umude Avuvu, home of herbs, land of shrubs, where lush green forests abound. Tony Nwawuike Ekechi, my brother, my Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:43:02 GMT Dimitris P. Kraniotis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/25 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/25 One-World Garments Waves of circumflexes, storms of adverbs, windmills of verbs, shells of signs of ellipsis, on the island of poems of soul, of mind, of Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:23:30 GMT CHIDI ANTHONY OPARA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/24 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/24 ......And so her children, sober and subdued searched in vain for men of medicine to mend, Rinda's once beautiful body, flogged with turgid tentacles of rabid Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:32:43 GMT adroitserv http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/23 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldpoetssociety/message/23 MOTIONS I felt sanded, as motion and light fused Walls breathing in ancient patterns No difference between eyes open or closed Waves of energy feel through me