Showing posts with label Obì. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obì. Show all posts

Sunday, August 22, 2010

ìjàré

Locked on the steps of the hinterland
On the foot of scattered hills
ìjàré
Yet a Valley, yet a plain, yet on a plateau

Hidden behind dusty roads
Unknown mystery until seen
Not a birthplace of Kola-nut
But owned it.

Scorched masquerades in its wakes
It is the cult of lọ́fin
Not since Genesis
had friends' dispute founded a land
ìjàré
An outpost broken in quarrel
Solved by broken Obì