Again, I hear the streamside exchange*
of river bird and the impetuous child:
colic Narcissus,
whose wakefulness wakes All.
I hear a pickpocket
Looking out on Wall Street,**
“Dubious warrant!”
“But these too are of my kind.”
It was the child.
And the river bird said,
Child, you must serve your time.
To each his day…
Has yet a day failed to dawn?
Has one ever cheated his day?
*Title of poem by J.P. Clark
of river bird and the impetuous child:
colic Narcissus,
whose wakefulness wakes All.
I hear a pickpocket
Looking out on Wall Street,**
“Dubious warrant!”
“But these too are of my kind.”
It was the child.
And the river bird said,
Child, you must serve your time.
To each his day…
Has yet a day failed to dawn?
Has one ever cheated his day?
*Title of poem by J.P. Clark
**Financial district in New York
On 7/27/15, 9:44 AM, "Okechukwu Ukaga" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com on behalf of ukaga001@umn.edu> wrote:
Wrong is wrong -
Nothing to do with East, West, North or South,
We sleep and wake in turns -
But the devil is always in the details,
First to sleep, First to wake - Reasonable,
Last to sleep, First to wake - Questionable,
First to sleep, Never to wake -
Dubious!
On Jul 26, 2015 5:04 PM, "Bode" <ominira@gmail.com> wrote:
-- --The righteous sun risesFrom the East.We sleep and wake in turns;Dubious eyes see dubious lawsin the light of the sun.On 7/26/15, 10:20 AM, "Okechukwu Ukaga" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com on behalf of ukaga001@umn.edu> wrote:Dubious faces abound,
So must must the siege and warrant,
Dubious faces abound,
Some are awake and worried - about to face the laws,
Dubious faces abound,
Many are comfortably asleep and not worried - shielded from the laws,
DUBIOUS!On Jul 25, 2015 9:29 PM, "Bode" <ominira@gmail.com> wrote:--Dubious faces startled in sudden daylight,
Awake, and worried.
Empty chambers warrant
The people¹s siege.
On 7/25/15, 8:41 PM, "Abolaji Adekeye" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
on behalf of blargeo.dekeye@gmail.com> wrote:
>Wave dubious warrants
>On our dubious faces
>We retain the chutzpah
>To insist on no disturbance
>Of our beauty sleep.
>
>
>On 7/25/15, Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:
>> By Chidi Anthony Opara
>>
>> Our bedchambers besieged.
>> We wake now
>> Worrying about enforcers
>> Waving
>> Dubious warrants on our faces.
>>
>> (Poem presented as social service, all rights reserved.)
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