Hope and survival

Celestine kenechukwu Onah 2002 (Ovoko, Nsukka, Enugu state)



At the end of the tunnel,
Obika beheld the funnel.
A stand between the dim,
The beam of smile on the grim.

On the dark edge, near the very end
He stood agape, uttering fiend,
The breeze that blew his hopes;
The rope that held his slop.

The tiger in company with the tigress
Was against his escape on the express.
They laid, doggedly, at his escape root;
Formidable creatures, bundle rout.

Taking the bull by the horn, he took the hue.
And in click, turned them to ewe;
Accepting reality, with base on brevity.
And then, the light on integrity.

Nothing happened until he took a step,
The step you should make to rep.
It’s the survival of the fittest,
The bang of the strongest.

About this poem

Hope and survival is a poem that stresses on the need to stand strong in the midst of challenges

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Written on June 05, 2022

Submitted by kenechukwu on September 05, 2022

Modified on April 06, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABB XXCX CXXX DDEE FFGG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 683
Words 147
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Celestine kenechukwu Onah

He is from Nsukka, Enugu state, Nigeria. He is a mass communication student of university of Nigeria nsukka. He is the fourth child of six children. more…

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