Kodi Azuonye is a Nigerian lawyer, activist and poet. He has been on the editorial board of the Supreme Court of Nigeria Judgements, a periodical Law report with wide circulation within Nigeria and elsewhere, and has had his poetry and legal articles published in several international print and electronic journals.
One irksome, prosy afternoon
devoid of interest, time hanging heavily -
to have my stripling fling,
I digressed into a bush
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Palsied dewy touch, knell-swathed-
a flawed crust of chrysalis
burned into exile.
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The water is dark and silent, reflecting sparks of the night’s fire
that bedeck a window of sky.
Your voice tonight does not thrill me at all, poet wind.
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