mark nwagwu Biography

I am a professor of biology, trained in cell and molecular biology and did some of my early work in the US and Canada returning to my country, Nigeria in 1976. I retired from the University of Ibadan in 2002 and wrote my first novel, FOREVER CHIMES published in 2007, dedicated to my grand-daughters, Akunne, Oluchukwu and Uzoamaka.
I'm always writing poems to my wife and my thoughts when I'm alone turn on her. Through her I see the world. My poems owe so much to her. I'm just beginning. Please stay with me so I can learn from you.

I work best in that stealthy space
where contemplation migrates to distraction
and mind expands to envelope the universe
then collapses into caves in deep seas
losing self discovering self

where the ending din of the market place
greets the glorious glow of moonlit stance

where devil peeps in
to look to tempt
to steer thoughts to
things worldly
then chased away by
angels of light

human person adrift
lands on shores of
revealed truths