POEMS BY OZIOMA ONUZULIKE
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(for Nigeria at 38)

 
With coils of aged clay
 
coated with the healing slip
 
of change
 
emboss codes of truth
 
on the tablets of the hearts
 
of the people of this land.
 
Today's raging fire
 
will bind them,
 
surely,
 
into a lasting lump
 

 Nssukka, October 1998

 

 

Copy right by Ulonka and Ozioma Onuzuluike, 2002

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