OGONNA ANUNIKE  (chazheartz@yahoo.com)

Mr. Ogonna W. Anunike holds a Bachelors Degree in Performing Arts, University of Ilorin; PGD in Mass

Communication, University of Lagos and Master

Degree in Broadcasting. He is a member of the African Council on Communication Education (ACCE); the playwright of  The Yoke; a poet with a dozen poems in Poems are Forever and the author of Media Drama. He also has some published journal articles. At present, he teaches in the Department of Mass Communication, Federal Polytechnic, Oko.

A THIEF

Education for all QED

Nay, education for me

Facts as clear as daylight

Porous base breeds anxiety

Hardly supports feather

Bearing superstructures

Remedial shortcut is the answer

With skipped lecture contacts

Cruising on debased life

Concomitant waterloo is imminent

Arm-twist for cash or otherwise

An undergraduate I am

A decaying generation

Worse-hit the cap and the gown

After all, they are justified…

The societal extension is here

With knowledge second to nothing

An undergraduate indeed!

But how long for this thief?

The clock ticks aloud

A detour to Godliness

Destroys the porous foundation

Erecting an enduring superstructure

A wise and inevitable choice.

THE NEW AGE

The stratified world

Ancient: industrial space…

IT and ICT of today

Starring Microelectronic Technology

An integrated system

Input data, minus GIGO

Output information on programme

New nomenclature: Microchip, Macromedia

The global village medium

System of incredible megahertz

As accurate as facts

Vistas of no comparism

Near faith reliability

With secured evergreen memory

Behold the universal application

An indispensable companion

Click the mouse or the right key

VDU unearths soft copy

Via printer to access hard copy

The rat race for the chips

The age for highfliers

Relevance or nobody

Welcome the dawn of the New Age

The information and computer age

BUMPER HARVEST

The heat of hell is here

Hot and hot excruciating

Where are the rainmakers?

SOS our refrain

End of first quarter chimes

Near last breathe our farm crops

Transmitting to yellow pigments

SOS our refrain

Yore the quantum harvest

Well-knit corn- cob concomitant

Masticated with pea lubricant

SOS our refrain

Thou Lord of harvest

Faith of the peasant farmer

Saturate the earth

SOS our refrain

Thank heavens for the torrents

A blossom farm imminent

Expanded barn at last-

Victory at last!

THE LANDLORD

A good design indeed!

The quintessence of architectural beauty

A working drawing

A dream mansion eminent possession

Contradiction of dream and reality

Material hike beyond the roof

What of labour wages?

The dream must not die

A landlord, another lord

Even hut, mud house,

Nay, the dream design

Duplex occupation

Possibility or illusion?

Will, beget the way

But the master is the way

Way, portents possibility

Appropriation of dream

A dream comes true

From design to mansion