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Our Sirens Are Wailing

Afolabi Adesanya 1959 (Kano)

Free verse
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Our neighbourhood sirens are wailing
Lamenting low current
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Our bulbs are dancing disco
popping filament
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Our neighbourhood sirens are wailing
Mourning rancid foodstuffs
damaged household appliances and electronics
factory equipment and machinery
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Our neighbourhood sirens are wailing
Our neighbourhood sirens are mourning
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TCN
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Our neighbourhood sirens are silent
National grid collapse
Power failure
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TCN
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Our neighbourhood sirens are wailing
Not for the dead but the living
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TCN
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Our neighbourhood sirens are mourning
Not for the dead but the living
- Afolabi Adesanya
(c) 2022 Afolabi Adesanya
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Written on April 07, 2022

Submitted by Afolabi on April 09, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABcAdcABefgABBAHAcijAHABBAHABBkk
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 659
Words 97
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 32
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