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    Poetic Voice of Reason
    Poetic Voice of Reason
    Poetic Voice of Reason
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    Poetic Voice of Reason

    By Charlotte Ndiribe

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    POETIC VOICE OF REASON is a literary masterpiece that reflects salient aspects of human society in a contemporary tone. Critical and unsung issues are juxtaposed in a satirical lace to convey the surrealistic messages that will provoke you to reason.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharlotte Ndiribe
    Release dateMay 31, 2020
    ISBN9780463545003
    Poetic Voice of Reason
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    Charlotte Ndiribe

    I am an author in love with the beauty of words. I would like that book lovers enjoy my creativity.

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      Poetic Voice of Reason - Charlotte Ndiribe

      1. A Little

      Thus says a little wise man

      Tis a little more sleep

      By a little lazy man

      Of a little brain

      Only a little scrap of food

      More little still will be left

      On his little table

      If his little ground is untilled.

      2. No Change

      What has changed?

      I mean what has changed in the pattern

      of the rising and setting of the sun?

      What has changed in the arrangement

      of natural endowments around us?

      Has the rain not tasted the same?

      Or the wind ever the mistake

      of revealing its hidden identity?

      What has changed since millennia past?

      Generations have trod and trod

      and the monotonous pattern of life

      yet remains the same

      giving one a certain sense of sleeping inertia.

      What has changed?

      I bellow again,

      from the depths of abrupt homogeneity.

      3. Hope

      I look at the sun,

      I see a bright array of colours.

      I scarcely can contain

      the power of the illumination.

      I hardly can perceive

      the shortest way to reach that world.

      I stare on, unperturbed.

      I fall into a dream,

      I am with Angels,

      in paradise, what joy!

      4. The Funeral

      I went to the funeral of a certain man

      I was so shocked that the dead man had died.

      I was shocked because I never knew

      the dead man would succumb

      so helplessly to death.

      And I pondered and considered this man,

      his prominence, stupendous wealth,

      houses, estates, cars, and many children.

      I saw that the funeral dressers did

      with his body as they pleased.

      They dressed him up in his final suit

      as if they did not need his consent.

      I remember this was a man

      who may have flared up,

      if his orders were not hastily followed,

      and no fly ever

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