With the academic year now being fully under way, we also see the return of our student poetry series Originals. To ease you back into the stress of student living, this week our selection of original poetry comes from student Osita Kabba.
The realm of the man with broken wings
To the man with broken wings,
I say, I see it clearly now, you’ve heard news of the apocalypse
That it’s near, but for you it has already come,
you care not for a life in this world and live in post-civilisation, post-mortem
but if I may ask, what is it like? As I’ve heard tale that there are many more of you out there
and that at night your souls leave your bodies and make love in a realm beyond what I see…beyond what we see.
who is the guardian of the realm, I ask? And is the guardian accepting of all?
As I’ve grown tired of being bewildered by treasured orbs of nothingness,
And seek possibilities,
But if you show me a portal beyond the abyss, I will come, I might come
The potential me in front of me
As humans we are sculptures,
Constantly chipping away the unwanted pieces
Trying to create our own version of the masterpiece
So when I look in the mirror I don’t read the writings
I look at the reflection behind it, the image of what I could become…
Not of their perception but mine
Calabash Gourd of Thoughts
Here in these bodies a great mythological construct
A god within self because we endeavour the summit,
becoming one with chosen materials, like the Kami spirits of Shinto,
an innate attachment will allow for the preservation of creation
And thus permeate in aspects of our being.
To distort a narrative through state of disillusion, will then position change less implausible
I don’t know of vacuity in union, only in the anthesis
But what canvas have we but the self to augment a universal truth
To understand purpose we digress nihilism and alter consciousness to find the unifying field
To remember what we’ve forgotten, information already there,
like a near past.
If you would like to have your poetry placed in Poet’s Corner please send all submissions to arts@impactnottingham.com
Osita Kabba
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