SANCTIMONIOUS ANGELS

AMAKWE DESTINY CHIDERA 2004 (Owerri, imo state)



SANCTIMONIOUS ANGELS 


Heads up,chin high

They potter around,

With their heads lying in the cloud,

Chasing rainbows.


Toiling their hands in clay,

In a bid to mend a broken pot,

Never had they seen a potter's house.

How quickly they forget, they were made of earth too.


Even when sprinting on track,

Yet act as umpires

Hooks and lines, ready to fish the wrong,

But trip in a blink of an eye,

When given the baton.


Their eyes wide open to ignorance,

But blind at the sight of wisdom.

Their backs turned against knowledge,

They quench every flame that lits up their understanding.


Prisoners aiming to free the FREE.

Angels at dawn,

Demons at dusk.

About this poem

This is a replica or typical example of people trying to help you remove the splinter in your eyes leaving the plank sitting pretty in theirs.

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Scheme A X X X X X X X X X A X X X X X X X X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 669
Words 158
Stanzas 19
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

AMAKWE DESTINY CHIDERA

Amakwe Destiny chidera is a Nigerian who hails from Abia state born on the 3rd of March. She is a poet, writer and screenwriter.Though she has written a good number of books yet unpublished. She published her first poem "who is the greatest" on July 5th 2019. She is an aspiring sociologist studying at the Enugu state University of science and technology. more…

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