HUNGER, vol 1



Hei! You delighted but worthless pride,
Hanging around thinking the world your bride,
Her children you chase with awful stride,
Hail you not, helter skelter you run but can't hide.

Useless as you are like a century old tree,
Us with you an association the world doesn't agree,
Under no circumstance will you then live for free,
Understand us this time for you can issue no decree.

No more desire to live happily in this world,
Nothing anymore because our gullets are curled,
Never again would we fear, even if you hurled,
Nor would we prone,though your spirits are uncoiled.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

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Scheme AAAA BBBB CCCX
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 563
Words 101
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Shamsudeen Salifu

I am a Ghanaian born on 18th June, 1981 in the city of Kumasi, the capital of the famous Ashanti Kingdom. more…

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