Christmas



I was the kid who made a habit of fetching water/ from empty rivers/ I know how earth cracks/when the sky never weeps. Wise men know they/ have to be buried before they grow. common knowledge/in the country of seeds/ so I buried myself in the grave of my dreams/I dreamt rice & chicken/ I dreamt firecrackers & fireworks/I dreamt adulthood & freedom/I dreamt of making castles & boxes/adorning my body in new attires/ and playing with plastic mother hen/ laying eggs and transforming them into live chicks/ my dreams were big but my hands were small/ so I sat in the sand and turned my hands into a womb/where I moulded  my rice & chicken.my fireworks.my new clothes.my adulthood.my freedom. my castles.my boxes. my hen & chicks. and wait for December/ to help me daub them in living hues/mother steps into my dreams and tells me of kids who never wait/for the Christmas of things/ to make living souls/of their dreams/it’s always Christmas in the manger of dreams.

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I wrote this poem when I remembered what my childhood was during Christmas period

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Omidire, Joshua Idowu

Omidire, Joshua Idowu is a vibrant poet, editor, blogger, and social media strategist. He studied English and Literary Studies at the University of Lagos. He later had his master’s in Literature-in-English in the same Institution. His poems have appeared in Footmarks, Our Legacy of Madness, and The Sky is our Earth: Anthology of 50 young Nigerian Poets. He was the winner of professor Eruvbetine’s poetry prize. He also won Professor Hope Eghagha’s Drama prize in 2012. He has been published in Pulse, Ynaija, Praxis, Literary Horizon: An International Peer-Reviewed English Journal, etc. He reports for The Journal Nigeria. He loves reading books, listening to music, and scooping inspiration from the stream of mundane activities. He enjoys playing with street photography, graphic designing, and photo editing. more…

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