Hope!



As a nail
Fastened to a piece of wood,
Its light blinks
On the eye of every man
Faring through this land!

Does it beg?
Never! But, it comes
Hotly when men are down.
Only fools close their eyes
Against this saviour;
And so, they end their journey.

This blissful breeze:
Wayfarers' one companion
Through the thickets of life,
Where dreadful creatures
Parade venomous fangs.

Lose it, you've lost all,
But doom and death:
For the tonic of life is it;
It keeps man alive!
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

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Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 447
Words 85
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 6, 5, 4

Pius Has Pagiel

Fresh and new, and young. Born in a village hospital in Ogidi, Anambra State of Nigeria on Tuesday, 26th September, 1989 to Mr. and Mrs. Pius Nwibo Onwe, who hail from Ndewugo-Inyimagu of IZZI LGA of Ebonyi State. My family name is Onwe Arinze Pius. Pius Has Pagiel is my pen-name. Some very close friends call me Soisese Oinese(meaning Success Onwe in my private language). I passed through Christ the King College, Onitsha and made one of the best results- I was science-inclined, though, I love literature very well. I won the best literature student award in first Senior Secondary School class before I dropped the subject for full science ones. Today, I am a student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. Luckily, I am into Architectural Studies, a mixture of Arts and Science. I love it. I wish to be a renown poet and author in the future. I like writers like Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keats, Wilbur Smith and several others. Let's be friends on facebook. Search my profile: Pagiel Pius Has. Mail piushaspagiel@yahoo.com. Thanks. more…

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