BENIN By Eddie Awusi

BENIN

Yawning out,

A bronze of ancient dawn,

Bustling and buzzing with life,

Like a swarm of bees;

Awkwardly awakened,

In Ozolua moat.

Bellowing;

With spiralling sinews of smokes:

Crawling sheepishly. ascending;

From Iduh Owina to the hearths of Ekhiadolor;

Into the naked ivory of the sky.

And zealous feets;

Meandering carelessly;

Negotiating steps, at the fringes;

And coughing locomotives;

Bursting like raucous

Mushrooms on fertile soil - on the roads.

Eddie Awusi lives in Benin city where he runs a small personal business. He has a degree in English literature. He has been published in Dandelions in a Vase of Roses, Voices of the Aspirants, FM 20 among other poetry anthologies. His poetry has also appeared in different poetry magazine in Europe, America, Africa and Asia