Sunday 18 March 2018

Ambush by Gbemisola Adeoti

The land is a giant whale
that swallows the sinker,
with hook, line and bait
aborting dreams of a good catch
fishers turn home at dusk
blue Peter on empty ships
all Peters with petered out desires.

The land is a saber-toothed tiger
that cries deep in the glade
While infants shudder home
the grizzled ones snatch their gut
from bayonets of tribulation
halting venturous walk at dusk

The land is a giant hawk
that courts unceasing disaster
as it hovers and hoots in space

The land lies patiently ahead
awaiting in ambush
those who point away from a direction
where nothing happens toward the shore of possibilities.

Gbemisola Adeoti

Adeoti Gbemisola Aderemi (PhD) is a lecturer, poet, editor, author, etc. He is a Nigerian belonging to Yoruba ethnic group. A member of Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA). Gbemisola Adeoti works as a lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

1 comment:

  1. Each stanza in the poem actually treats different actors in the poem. The politicians, the masses, the workers and the dreamers.
    The first stanza, talks about the duty of the giant whale
    About dreams of the dreamer, makes futile the labour of the workers as the return empty, but above all encourages the corrupt to continue in order to swallow them.
    The land is a giant whale
    that swallow(kill) the sinker(corrupt)
    with hook(trap), line(laws) and bait(loots).

    Stanza 2

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