Poems by Wole Soyinka
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Dedication
... Taste this soil for death and plumb her deep for lifeAs this yam, wholly earthed, yet a living tuber ...
In The Small Hours
... Night turns Homewards, sheathed in notes of solace, pleats ...
Civilian and Soldier
... Reiteration Of my civilian quandary, burrowing earth ...
I think it rains
... From afar, this, your conjugation with my earth ...
Chrysalis
... The day may be called One Toothroad or Six Thunderpain, ...
Shooting Star
... is like a full moon rising over the Ortiz mountains ...
Before Completion
... a peregrine falcon making a slow circle with outstretched ...
Telephone Conversation
... Facially, I am brunette, but madam you should see the rest of me ...
The Negative
... who joined the Communist party early but by the time of the Cultural Revolution ...
Streamers
... from atoms excited by electrons accelerated along the planet&rsquo ...
The Opal
... two-by-twelves, or using a chalk line to mark the locations ...
The Redshifting Web
... they thought the tape of erhu solos was a series of spy messages ...
Ten Thousand to One
... Search the summer sky for an Anasazi turkey constellation ...
Dedication From Moremi
... dung floors Break, not the gecko's slight skin, but its fall ...
Procession I - Hanging day
... Of silence? What tell you of rigours of the law ...
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