light rays at dawn
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Light rays
At dawn.1. You know it
I found myself alone in a corridor
Not of brick walls. But of shelves
Of books, in a quiet family home.
Oh! If I may tell you, there were a
Lot of volumes, lots of titles and
Colors in their various combinations.
But there was something about this
Little book, that had no cover pages and
Sure enough, its title had gone with the covers.
Yet surprisingly, its contents were all intact.
Not a page of it missing, because they were
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Lines written aforetime for the mind.
On the pages of the heart, which opens
When theres no obscurity and doubts
In the reflections of the mind.
I may not need to tell you the whole story.
For its already in your thoughts. And as such,
Theyre quite accessible to you.
But if you may believe,These are all its contents in brief,
Simple and straight to the point thus;
Every eyes such as sees,
Sees in three dimensions. But not so the mind,
Which beholds all things in deeper dimensions.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
2. Yesterdays gone
Life is a bright rose on the lane.
A friend we have but once.
A candle that quickly burns to an end.
A ripple in the rising sun
That grows no more when it sets.
A playground deserted at crepuscule.
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Today soon becomes yesterday.
Tomorrow is coming with opportunities.
And forever, yesterday is gone.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
3. Mercy
Sin is simply holding
The devils paint brush
To paint a portrait that weakens
Us each moment we stare at it.
And a little while we become frail
And a little more we become afraid and
Death comes knocking on our door.
Yet we cry and mercy comes as the light of dawn.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
4. Morning sky
So silvery is the sky
When the morning sun
Comes out. Dazzling and hopeful
Is the sky at the break of day.
Mountains of woolly
Clouds behind the bright
And blue sky that makes
Frail the light of the night stars.
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But they are all
Fragile and simple realities,
Gracefully formed and beautifully
Fixed to bless the day and mark the night.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
5. Monkey pet
Ikom is my mothers village.
Ikom has an evergreen forest.
Nkanta is my cousin andEbuk is my aunty.
They live in a mud hut.
And they drink from a clay pot.
Here sits ebakima, a monkey
That plays like a brother.
Ebakima has a tan fur.
Its eyes are large and round.
It listens as if it hears and laughs as if
It talks. But not while eating bananas.
Ebuk, Nkantas mother bought
Ebakima on a great market day
To be Nkantas pet in their
Lonely forest hut.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
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6. Miracles
In bushes of thorns, I see roses.
In an alluvial flint, I behold sparks
Of gold. Prized vessels are of the
Miry clay. And in those ugly and
Hurtful caterpillars, I see butterflies
Of gay colors flying atop trees.
But a perverted mind neither
Sees nor imagines these things. And whatPerverts the mind? One thing; sentiment.
But if this sentiment is replaced by love, I assure
You, when the dawn of this twilight shall come,
Tomorrow will be a beautiful miracle in your eyes.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
7. What Love isLove is the rising of the sun.
Its the boundless blue sky above.
The woolly clouds and the stormy seas.
The clattering and drizzling rain. The quiet
Ponds and the bubbling springs.
The blooming of the forest and the oasis
Of the desert. The oceans pebbles and
The mighty hills. The thorny roses and the
Lilies of the valley. The frail and colorful
Butterflies and the wild, tawny eagles.
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Beautiful, handsome or ugly.
To say that someones a white man or
A black man, Christian or Hindu, Asian or
American and whatever, is illusive.
But indeed, one fact is truthful. Were
Made in the image of a God whos a
Metaphysical and supernatural being.
And its love and love alone thatll bring usThe enlightenment and liberation to accept
Every race, religion, color and whatever as One.
And until we give in and learn
This supernatural subject of love; progress,
Peace and unity will remain terra incognita.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
10. Hurray comrades!
Here we stand in the north,
South, east and west.
In our olive green khaki gears, weve
Waved the flag of unity and peace.
Every place weve gone in our orange denim
Boots, weve left a footprint of integrity and justice.
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Looking about, the faces are enormous.
Faces that might not meet, perhaps forever.
But these things are sure and will always be
Our identities, even as we gather here to part.
Weve finished the race, weve fulfilled our vows and
Weve served our nation, even in her distant places.
Now, one thing is needful, even with tender tears. One last glimpseOf these great and achieving faces that memory alone will bear.
Let the wings of destiny disperse us to greatness.
And in parting, let us part with joy in safety and peace.
Hurray comrades!
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
11. Theyre my friends
I dont need those roses
For the sake of thorns and hurts.
Red as they are, and attractive
As you may behold them. But
You wouldnt dare own them.
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But I love and need little and feeble
Toddlers. For their smiles are true and filled
With certainties. In their laughter I can see
A radiance of confidence. And I can always
Enjoy an unending trust in their company.
Hold my hands and take a walk
With me, precious little friends.
Little legs that wander not astray.
Little minds that think not evil and tenderHearts that share and keep no secrets.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
12. Nobody cares
Im sitting by the roadside,
Beckoning to the passersby and
Beckoning to the maidens.But nobody cares and nobody stops.
Come sit by me in the shade
Of the palms and ease your day
With a truthful conversation.
But nobody cares and nobody turns.
Busy they walk, undirected
They roam. They dream of rubies.
They wander and gamble for gold.
But nobody cares and nobody hopes.
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MORGAN, IDORENYIN
13. Ill be beautiful
I am not beautiful and
I dont have friends. I am
Shy and I dwell behind leaves.
But if you know how beautiful I will
Be tomorrow, you would go borrow
Wings so you could be my friend.
Tomorrow will make me a butterfly
And will give me colorful wings.
I will fly high and I will fly away.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
14. Fear
Fear is the only bandit that wearsNo mask and holds No gun. But breaks
Right into the hearts of men, even the
Hearts of brave men. Fear will always
Steal a couple of things; peace and confidence.
Then binds the greatest of men,
Makes them feeble, drags them to
Unseen gallows and hangs them with
Unseen ropes. And takes a walk only
When they are dead and cold.
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Fear is as invisible as it does not exist. But
Wouldnt hesitate to take and use any form
The mind creates for it. For fear is birthed and
Nurtured in the mind till it grows and becomes
A slave that rules his master.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
15. Life is just a joke!
Life is just a joke.
And everyday meets us with eventsThat do not conform to reality.
Things that will not be our needs
In an essential world.
Life is just a joke.
How I hate these jokes of life.
How they paint so much a portrait of Lies to minds that are confined to be
Slaves in a world as free as ours.
Life is just a joke.
I choose the life I knew from birth
I hate and Im not interested in laws
Formed by mortals like me. For these
Laws could have been their mistakes.
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Life is just a joke.
But I choose the life of a creator.
And that takes me faraway from the
Mistakes of men. For the world I dwell
Is but a different world.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
16. Lead me
My eyes are on the Lord
For He woke me up this morningWith such a precious gift as Life
He knew me when I was dead
In my sleep. He had stayed by me to
Wake me at dawn and lead me by day
When my path becomes dark,I will fix my stare in the power
Of His light which gives me life.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
17. Faithful
When I heard your voice
I hid myself because I was naked.
Heavenly Father, when my conscience
And guilt wraps me in shame.
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Teach my heart to know that your
Chastisement is my redemption.
And your search light of truth
Is my consolation in many afflictions.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
18. Victory
I had been filled with
Thoughts and dreams
In the long dark night.
Now Im awake to plan,
Awake to run, awake to work and
Awake to win glorious triumphs.
I want to dare mighty things.
Stand on my tiptoes and reach,Even though checked by failures.
Yet I have learnt not to
Lean on my own strength but
On the unlimited energy of Life.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
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I have one goal;
To see my Lord.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
21. Future days
Who knows the days of the future?
Who tells the direction of the wind?
Yet in all, my hope will never dim.
For the future, if therell be at all shall
Bloom the gardens and run the streams.But Im thankful; Ive reached yesterdays future.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
22. Little black
Little black had a friend .The first
That taught little black how to play.
A friend that made him wise and glad.
Then little black wandered off his friend,
Went faraway and made himself some
Friends and also taught them how to play.
While playing with his new companions,
Little black remembered he had a friend
Whod faithfully taught him how to play.
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Then he came back home
Staring, creeping and with a
Trembling heart, yet hoping.
And here on his path was the teacher.
A friend trusted than all, coming with a
Radiating smile and with open arms for a hug.
He carried up little black tenderly to
His chest, coddled him and happily
Took little black home again.
While playing with little black
He noticed many strange forms
And had so much pity on him.
Again, he carried him up to his chest.
Browsed through his paws and behold,A couple of ticks had found a home in-between.
They were actually there to steal
Little blacks peace and also to distract
Him from the warm affections of his friend.
Then love pulled them out and Justice
Slew them. But grace kept the teacher
And little black forever in friendship.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
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23. Tomorrow
Yesterday is the rear of the future.
Our journey will end where it started.
Tomorrow arrives an hour at a time.
Tomorrow is a story untold. Like hidden
Rubies in the dust, our friends will be strangers
And our dwellings will be in foreign places.
Our destinations are uncertain
But somewhere, our end is certain. Look Off worries and be enriched with hope
Tomorrow is coming and is coming for the
Prepared. Awake now for tomorrow will come as
The rising sun and will neither wait nor come back again.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
24. Theyre gone
Some folks have seen the rising sun
But see no more the setting of it. Now, the
Playground is empty our playmates are gone
Im trying to puzzle out their faces, Im trying
To recall their names and Im trying to hear
Their voices as I take this long walk alone in tears
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Their laughter and smiles are still real and
True. The smiles they gave away yesterday.
Theyre gone! Life has taken them home forever.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
25. Sailors daybreak
Its an eve of four seasons,
Its a shore of rich merchants.
Which language shall we speak
If our home bound voyage anchors
Here and our sailors seek in thisLand their heartfelt desires?
Could this harbor be a seat of
Treasures? Then treasures will we find.
Is it a shore of battle? Then with our blood
And our lives shall we atone. I am the
Trade wind of the north, the sunriseOf the east and the trident of the seas.
In bravery, my eye sees many
Tears and my heart as a fragment of clay
Fractures each time Im in strange waters.
But I will keep on sailing, sailing to faraway
Places, sailing for conquest and sailing till
I find freedom in some peaceful island.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
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26. Abstraction
What we see in objects
Are their behaviors and
Attributes. But the realness
Of every object dwells in
Abstraction, a deeper realm.
Every object achieves its
Identity in abstraction. And
As we behold an object in three
Dimensions, much more will itsEssential characteristics possess.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
27. Living hope
Life has its morning
When the man as a baby
Opens his buds as a flowerIn the light of a summer day.
Before noon, when the milk is
Gone and the baby becomes a
Lad learning to swim and learning
To think as his horizon begins to broaden.
Then noon meets him as a man. And
The sun beams above his head and subdues
His shadow beneath his feet. He knows
Himself and finds a mate for his brood.
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And in the afternoon, when
His shadow flags by his side and
The wave of the ocean knows its calm.
Survival and strives becomes his subjects.
Then the eventide brings
His dreams to life. And the
Gray twilight sky reflects on his
Head, his beard and his needs.
Now the flower of dawn is pollinated,
Its petals shrivel and are ready to drop.
But something will keep him alive when he
Exists no more and his day is made dark with night.
Hope that cannot die, even though he passes on,
Hope that shall raise him up on the morning of theSaints when the Son shall take the place of the sun
And hope that shall give him another life in the clouds.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
28. Christmas day
Rain? No, the east wind is blowing west and
The sun is setting in the dark western skies.
Frail moon, lost stars and a gentle crepuscule
Breeze that makes the pines and the flowers wave.
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Listen to the clattering sound of a distant
Cockcrow as the morning becomes dewy and cold.
Though the misty spray of dawn caps the smoldering
Logs with white ashes, a flame will rekindle at sunrise.
This flame shall bring Light to my eyes. And Im
Thankful it will be the living daylight of Christmas.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
29. Night ripplesLet me be alone and sober
For when the clock ticks aloud
And the shadows of the night looms
About me, then will I know the things
That are not written in the pages of books
And hear the words that men seldom speak.
But afar off in the trees, a pigeon calls
And breaks the stillness of the night.
A goat bleats in the farm in want of straw.
The night becomes dewy and water drips
And drops from the roof, creating ripples
In the pond as the village lies dead in sleep.
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Now the beam strains and wakes,
The frogs breaks free and take the
Streets. And darkness brings the wild
To hunt their prey. The spider spreads it
Web and the moth meet its death. The serpent
Trails through holes and the mole feels its fang.
The night hours fly and solitude becomes
Grander. But soon the shadows vanishes in the
Emerging sun that starts the day and wakes the
Multitude to the streets. The day groans andLongs for peace. The sun becomes scorching and plays
Its song which brings life and death to the living race.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
30. The sky lark
I love the tawny lark
That sings at dawn.Not the song it sings
In the light of day.
When twilight is near
And the western skies
Hides the sun. It sits atop
The trees and sings again.
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Just a little lark that
Knows its Creator. Living a
Few years but thankful for
Every sunrise and sunset it sees
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
31.God is here with me!
Found myself alone in the creeks.
Its darkness alone would have scared me.
Let alone the various strange sounds I heard.
But I knew with a conviction
Within me, that I wasnt ever alone.
For I couldnt wander away from Gods palms.
So let the night come with its darkness
And let the tempest rage. Im sure andSure enough, that God is here with me!
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
32. Awake in Zambia
Thy beaming sun feels me with warmth
And such blue skies as yours, another will not
Know except in thee, the horn of the black
Race that hugs the imagination of a white guest.
In thy heart, the magnificent ocean part on
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Behind the cold bars of
Hell Where pains and agony
Wraps my feeble frame and
My vision, veiled by the bricks
Of clay. Only time lets me see
The world beyond and walks me
In the streets of the freed.
When in the vessel of trade
I sail in the mist of the seas
Where the raging storm andMounting waves toss me to
Every side of the ocean whose
Bounds are the skies. Only time
Will lead me to its tranquil shores.
When life becomes hilly, and
Our routes curve to cacti ladenPaths, friends forsake us as in
Rainy days, its only time that
Shall straighten our routes,
Patch our tents with denim and
Keeps the walk in faithful steps.
Its only time that goes all the
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Way and knows no weariness. Its
Only time that unveils the truth.
Its only time that tries all our deeds.
Its only time that will keep our friends
And expose our fiends. And its only
Time that knows the story at the End.
MORGAN, IDORENYIN
Given with joy to Bro. Bondi
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